February 4, 2025
25 Years Ago - February 8, 2000
The Pendleton County Board of Education unanimously voted that the athletic department create a proposals to include plan, time, schedule and budget to add football to district sports.
The preliminary idea is to create a freshman team first.
Federal Title IX mandates that whenever a boys sport is added, a sport for girls also must be offered. Volleyball is most often chosen to meet the requirement.
The athletic department was instructed to present its proposal to the board in March, including thoughts on practice and playing fields, equipment, coaching staff and costs.
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Doctors Mohamed Zineddin and Ghassan Jaj Hamed are moving their Riverside Medical Center internal medicine and family practice to a larger building at 125 W. Shelby St., Falmouth.
An open house with pizza is scheduled for 1 to 4 p.m. March 5.
50 Years Ago - February 7, 1975
Two Butler factories have returned to work this week.
Butler Products was closed down a week, but started up again Monday.
RK Displays has been work 2 1/2 days a week, but went again to full time Feb. 1. The have received some new orders for 1975.
Business has been off some, but things are again picking up. Reports are, too, that manufacturing materials have been difficult to get.
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President Gerald Ford ignored the proposed Falmouth Dam in his fiscal 1976 budget submitted to Congress Monday.
The $80 million project was not included in the budget. Already, the government has spent a lot of money, $500,000 or more, on plans.
The Falmouth Dam committee will now go to work to try to get the project restored to the budget this year. They expect to point out the great energy shortage and the need for flood control.
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Dr. W. M. Townsend, who has been recuperating for the past several months, is now able to be back among us and has taken an apartment at 507 Maple Ave., Falmouth. This is just across the street from the Pendleton Community Hospital, in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fisher Fields, where he has an apartment.
Dr. Townsend has been under the care of Dr. Carl Klumpe in Covington since suffering a heart attack Dec. 30, 1973.
Townsend says that eh wants to now live among the people he has served, and in due time, if it can be arranged, to assist the local doctors in their practice a couple of hours a day two or three days a week.
75 Years Ago - February 10, 1950
The only water main to Shoemakertown, a suburb of Falmouth, has been washed out, and as a result, the people of that part of the city are without drinking water and fire protection.
The citizens of that part of Falmouth arose Monday morning to discover no drinking water and that the fire plugs were dead. The high waters of the Licking River had broken a big water main that is laid on the river floor from the utility plant over to the suburb.
Falmouth has been threatened with two major floods in January, and now with a shortage of water, due directly to the Main Licking River on which the Falmouth Dam would be built.
Most people of this part of Falmouth will have to haul water because they no longer have their cisterns.
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The annual Old Fiddlers Contest, which is sponsored by the seniors of Morgan High School, will be held in the school gymnasium at 8 p.m. Feb. 14. Admission is 20 and 35 cents.
Those who have already entered are Wilma Moreland, Ashel Lea, Kenneth Price, Bud Utz, Bill Eckert and Lyle Sullivan.
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William Henry Poe, 101, Scott County’s oldest resident and a former resident of Pendleton County, died Feb. 2 at the home of a daughter in Georgetown.
Poe was a native of Point Pleasant, Ohio, and was a retired farmer.
Services were held Saturday morning in Georgetown.
100 Years Ago - February 6, 1925
Sheriff C.R. Peoples took George Shorter to the penitentiary at Frankfort Wednesday to serve a term of 18 months. Shorter was convicted last week in Circuit Court of robbing the store of Harley Turner in Butler on Dec. 3 when he stole about $200 worth of jewelry.
Peoples tracked Shorter from Demossville to Covington, where he sold, traded and gave away the jewelry.
The goods were recovered and Shorter was arrested and confessed.
A number of cases set for trial in the January term of Pendleton County Circuit Court were continued on account of the weather conditions which made it inconvenient for many witnesses to get to town.
They will be held over until the April term.
The grand jury reported six indictments for various offenses consisting of housebreaking, destruction of property without felonious intent, child desertion, malicious shooting, possession of liquor and carrying concealed deadly weapons.
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C.F. Parker of Hightower delivered to the Burley Association in Falmouth last week his crop of 3,070 pounds of tobacco, which graded in at $13.50 a hundred, and his advance amount to $414.10. This is the best crop for its size that has been delivered at the local warehouse this winter. It shows that Mr. Parker is an expert grower.
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W.G. Fryer, “The Music Man” of Falmouth, offered his personal recordings of “In Kentucky” and “There, Little Girl, Don’t Cry.” The newspaper ad states: “you have heard Fryer sing. This Genette Record will prove the reproducing qualities when used with the Starr Phonograph. The record mailed for $1 plus postage.”