May 23, 2023
25 Years Ago - May 26, 1998
The PCHS Ladycats Fast Pitch Softball Team successfully defeated their 17th District Tournament rule by defeating Bracken County 20-14 and Mason County 9-8.
Brigitte Blom-Ramsey was sworn in for her position on the Pendleton County Board of Education at their meeting on May 21. Ms. Ramsey's appointment was made to fill the vacancy left by Charles Barnes.
Chester and Carla Peters of Rt. 1, Butler, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Carlee Ellen Faith Peters. Carlee was born May 5.
PHS Ladycats making the All Tournament Team this year are Jill Wylie, Toni Thornberry, Casey Florence, and Tasha Gregg. This is the second year in a row for Gregg, Florence, and Thornberry in making the All Tournament Team.
50 Years Ago - May 25, 1973
The Pendleton County Horse and Pony Club Show will be held Saturday, May 20th at the old Falmouth Fairgrounds.
Pendleton County mourns the loss of one of its finest and most prominent citizens, Mr. John Alert Fisher, who passed away at his apartment at Fisher's Motel Tuesday, May 15th, 1973.
The Falmouth Dam issue is still alive, healthy and as strong as it always has been. Supporters of the Falmouth Dam returned from Washington last week greatly encouraged that the Congress will do the right thing in building the dam, and that is eventually will be built.
75 Years Ago - May 28, 1948
Robert A. Thompson will tender his resignation as county court clerk of Pendleton County on or about Thursday, June 1, 1948. Gov. Earle C. Clements will appoint Mr. Thompson as an associate member of the Kentucky Tax Commission.
Judge Early Cummins announced late Tuesday that he would appoint Chas. E. Ashcraft as county clerk of Pendleton County next Tuesday, June 1. Mr. Ashcraft will receive the oath of office from Judge Cummins on that day.
Born to the wife of C. W. Fisher of Falmouth at the St. Elizabeth Hospital on Friday, May 14, 1948, a fine 9 lb. son, Charles Michael. This is the first heir. Mrs. Fisher before her marriage was Miss Mary Lou Brann. They were returned to their home in Falmouth Wednesday last in the Thomas, Fossett & Yelton Ambulance.
100 Years Ago - May 25, 1923
The commencement of the Falmouth High School, always an event of widespread interest, attracted more than ordinary attraction this year. There were sixteen members of the class, the largest ever graduated from our high school.
A tragedy seldom if ever equaled in pathos took place in the little hamlet of Lenoxburg Sunday morning, May 20th, about 8:00 o'clock when Paul Leroy, the 19-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lach who resides in that place, drank a quantity of poison from a vial which he picked up somewhere on the premises. The child was dead 20 minutes after drinking the poison.
The city council met last week and accepted several plots of ground donated by Joseph Woodhead for the building of streets to the new school building. A right of way fifty feet wide, extending from South Main Street near the residence of Dr. K. B. Wollery, and running to the south end of the new school campus and thence west to Maple Avenue.
Last Thursday, Mr. H. L. Caris, cashier of the First National Bank, Mr. Omer Myers, county road commissioner, Postmaster Ward Metcalfe and Esquire Jon. McKinney met with the Pendleton County Fiscal Court in Falmouth for the purpose of asking this court make appropriations for reconstruction of the road from Lenoxburg to the Campbell County line....We understand that Campbell County will build new roads and if this county proposition is approved by the state, there will be a model highway running into the Queen City from Brooksville.