Looking Back

25 Years Ago -November 10, 1998 Falmouth will have a new city leader on Jan. 1 as voters in the city of Falmouth elected Jim Hammond to be their new mayor in last week's election. Hammond led the ticket with 390 votes over his opponents Jeff Carson with 151 and L.T. Varner with 140 votes.

Looking Back

25 Years Ago - Nov. 3, 1998 The 1998-99 budget for the city of Falmouth and the reclamation and leasing of buyout properties within the city were the main topics of discussion at the city council's work session held on Oct. 27.

Traveling Back…with PC Search and Rescue

By Nila Harris The Flood of 1997 devastated our community, but it also caused a birth—Pendleton County Search and Rescue, Inc was formed in response to this catastrophe.  It was March 1, 1997, and it rained as if it was never going to stop. WCPO.

Looking Back

25 Years Ago -October 27, 1998 Pendleton County Industrial Authority Director Jack Wright informed fiscal court on October 22 that the Kentucky Housing Corporation and Department of Military Affairs will sell the 50 mobile homes at New Hope at an absolute public auction on November 5.

Looking Back

25 Years Ago -October 20, 1998 Rescue efforts at Dravo Lime's Black River Plant on Highway 8 near Carntown came to a halt at 10:18 p.m. Tuesday, October 13.

Looking Back

25 Years Ago - October 13, 1998 One man remains trapped at press time in a maintenance storage area at Black River Mine in the northern part of Pendleton county on Highway 8. His identity has not been released. The gravel bin's bottom collapsed, dumping 600 tons of rock on the building around 10 a.

Looking Back

25 Years Ago - October 6, 1998 As the chill of autumn rolls into the Ohio Valley, Dan Moreland of Hornbeck Road, Butler, decides it's time to harvest his crop of freshwater shrimp, or more correctly freshwater pawns.

Looking Back

25 Years Ago -September 29, 1998 Pendleton County Fiscal Court at their Sept. 23 meeting approved Judge/Executive Don Mays' request to purchase two pieces of property that will be a part of the expansion of the present jail on Chapel Street....

Looking Back

25 Years Ago -September 23, 1998 The City of Butler has a new part-time police officer, Debra K. Merse. Mrs. Merse lives in Ft. Mitchell with her husband David. Falmouth City Council voted to issue two conditional building permits for the Falmouth Housing Authority's Hughes Ridge Place Project.

Looking Back

25 Years Ago -September 16, 1998   In a special meeting of the Pendleton County Fiscal Court held on September 9, a five-to-one vote was taken to build a 75-bed jail at the present location of the 25 bed at the present location of the 25-bed Pendleton County Facility.