February 18, 2025
25 Years Ago - February 22, 2000
Many residents in Falmouth and Butler didn’t have to be told to pack up and move their things out last Friday evening. As the Licking River began to rise up, their remembrance of the March 1, 1997, flood was brought back very quickly.
The Main Licking River in Falmouth crested at 35 feet around 7 p.m. Feb. 19. The water was seven feet over flood stage. The river had been at its highest level at 39 feet, 9 inches between 2 and 3 p.m. on Saturday.
High water began as early as 10 a.m. Friday when a foot bridge on Ambrose Wright Road south of Falmouth was flooded. By early Friday evening, the water had broken over the road in Callensville just a few hundred feet from Morgan. Later Friday night, Fourth Street in Falmouth in the east end was underwater and the city park covered.
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From the “Backstage Whispers at KRT” column by Gina Kleesattel, executive director: “You know the gang here at Kincaid Regional Theatre cares about you ... and now we offer you a longer life
“It’s true! Research from the University of Michigan proves that volunteering to an organization that you care about actually improves your health and increases the length of your life
“For this study, 1,120 adults over the age of 65 were studied for eight years ... At the end of the study, even factoring in differences in lifestyles and basic health, those who donated time were 40% more like than nonvolunteers to still be alive.”
50 Years Ago - February 21, 1975
A Pendleton County boy and a Mercer County girl were named the most outstanding 4-H members in Kentucky by the Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times.
The honors were bestowed on Paul Edward Hall, 17, of Foster, and Frieda Carol Graham, 17, of Harrodsburg.
Hall, a senior at Pendleton County High School is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hall. In addition to 4-H, he also was a member of the Beta Club, the Kentucky United Nations Assembly, Junior Achievement, the marching band, pep band and concert band, and was a delegate to the Kentucky Youth Power Food Conference.
He planned to go into politics, “but it’ll be at least 20 years before I’m ready to run for governor” as a conservative, third-party candidate, he said.
Both Hall and Graham will receive $500 U.S. Savings Bonds at the annual Farm Awards Luncheon March 8 in Louisville..
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Former Pendleton County Sheriff Clarence “Slim” Rice, 72, of Fisher’s Motel in Falmouth, died Feb. 10 at Pendleton County Hospital after a long illness.
He was born in Pendleton County in 1902, and married Garnet Aulick, who preceded him in death in the mid-1950s.
Rice also had been a Falmouth city councilman and a Falmouth fire chief. He previously owned Rice Motor Co. in Falmouth, which later became the Falmouth Auto Parts Co.
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It’s still winter, but the Men’s Softball League announced its first meeting of 1975 was set for 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28 at Falmouth City Hall. Anyone wanting to put a team in the league should be present.
75 Years Ago - February 24, 1950
The question of school consolidation in Pendleton County came out of private discussion this week and dropped into the public arena.
No single public official in Falmouth City Council can be credited for the school consolidation question arising, because it has been discussed by individuals for some months, both pro and con.
Falmouth Council did go on record, passing a motion that their group meet with Pendleton County and Falmouth school boards to discuss consolidation of the two school systems.
Mayor Max Goldberg stated at the opening of the meeting that he had received inquiries about locating factories in Falmouth and that one of the questions was, “How does your school rate?”
Goldberg was told that the Falmouth School was rated a B because of its small enrollment. Six or eight more students would be enough to bump the rating up to an A.
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A rented Cessna 140 two-passenger airplane had a wreck at the Pendleton County Airport Sunday afternoon, Raymond Cookendorfeer, airport manager, said.
The plane overshot the field and landed nose up off the runway. It was damaged with a twisted engine mounty and a bent propeller.
Pilot of the plane, William Hornsby, 23, a Navy veteran from the Greater Cincinnati area, said he had rented the craft from Lunken Airport.
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Corinth outdistanced the Butler Bobcats Tuesday night by a 51-48 score. Corinth led at halftime 38-18, but the Butler boys came back strong in the second half.
100 Years Ago - February 20, 1925
Fearing for the safety of their flocks of lambs and poultry, farmers in the Willow Riffle neighborhood are keeping their trusty muskets oiled and loaded.
Two weeks earlier, a pair of large birds appeared in that section and one of them was brought down by Alexander Bishop, who has the great bird in his corn crib while its mate still is at large.
The bird was thought to be a rare California condor, but has since been identified as a golden eagle.
Its wing, injured by Bishop’s rifle shot, has practically healed.
Mr. Bishop uses a tobacco stick to prod him about the corn crib for the scores of visitors who have gone there during the past week to see the bird, and the end of the stick is frayed by the flint-like beak of this huge black terror.