February 25, 2025
25 Years Ago - February 29, 2000
Ten days after flooding from the Licking River hit the area, the cities of Falmouth and Butler, and Pendleton County are cleaning up debris left by high water.
It also is time to reflect back and look at the positive measures that have helped the county cope better through the flooding this time.
True, the water level here was not as deep as it was in 1997, nor did the towns above us on the Licking get the large amounts of rain as they did in 1997.
However, emergency personnel in the county were better prepared for what lay ahead.
Emergency Management Services Director Craig Peoples declared a state of emergency around 10 p.m. Fe. 18. Soon the National Guard had troops in to help.
“Preparedness and access to river level and rain gauges gave the county an upper hand this time,” Peoples said.
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Pendleton County Fiscal Court accepted the recommendations from the 109 Board to allow Rumpke to take liquids into the landfill from certain counties.
Magistrate and 109 Board member David Dunaway said, “This is a new market for Rumpke. Rumpke will pay the county $1 per ton on the liquid, which is after the saw dust is added to the liquid to make it a more workable substance to put in the landfill.”
50 Years Ago - February 28, 1975
Traditionally, schools have used a system of reports to parents that emphasize failures rather than success.
In the third interim period, every effort will be made to point out areas of successful achievement and progress students have made, according to Pendleton County High School.
In the past, parents have received interim reports only if the student was making failing or unsatisfactory grades. The interim reports was sent to the parents to point out areas that need improvement so that necessary corrections could be made before the nine weeks or semester grades were issued.
“Since so much of our reporting to parents is of a negative nature, we thought it would be beneficial to report only the positive things that students are doing for this interim report period,” district officials said.
“Consequently, if a parent receives no information from the student, it means that their children probably need improvement in some areas.”
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Thelma Moore, owner and operator of the Licking Valley Rest Home, Maple Avenue, Falmouth, has been made a Kentucky Colonel by former Gov. Wendell Ford.
Moore has been operator of the boarding home in Falmouth for 17 years and has rendered an invaluable service to the people of Pendleton County and Northern Kentucky. She has always strived to operate a first class rest home that is licensed and that complies with all laws.
75 Years Ago - March 3, 1950
The Falmouth Red Devils boys basketball team is hosting the 38th District tourney and Coach Cecil Hellard says its one of the best-balanced teams he has coached.
Falmouth will play Mount Olivet Wednesday after the Butler-Brooksville game. On Thursday, Augusta will face the winner of Butler-Brooksville, and Morgan will play the winner of Falmoouth-Mount Olivet.
The finals are set for Friday.
The Falmouth squad is Billy Fossett, Hord Kimble, Billy Johnson, David Parker, Victor Marquette, Edwin Browning, Howard Brann, Bob Kellum, Billy Galloway and John Parker, along with manager Billy Reed.
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Paul Thornberry has resigned as commander of the Hardin-Browning Post 109 of the American Legion. He is moving to Indiana.
George Ashcraft Jr., first vice commander, is now acting commander until the regular election in June.
The American Legion post has installed a television set, which will add much to post meetings.
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The Falmouth Dam project has added two more enthusiastic boosters, the American Legion post at Falmouth and the Sportsmen of the Fifth District.
The Falmouth Dam would be a flood control project. It would prevent human suffering for thousands of people in this and the Greater Cincinnati area.
The dam would create a federal park and conservation reserve and thus, attract thousands, as well as be the water reserve supply for any community in Northern Kentucky or Cincinnati.
100 Years Ago - February 27, 1925
From H.C. Clark, Pendleton County health officer:
The existence of smallpox resulting in several deaths in certain sections of the state brings up once more the subject of vaccination and results.
None of those having the disease and losing their lives had been vaccinated. No deaths from vaccination ever occurred.
Many wild stories have been told as to how arms have been lost from being vaccinated, but that is not true. We are better prepared to refute such false statements. We have vital statistics which give the cause of every death.
You have herd that impure vaccines have been used by physicians, causing blood poisoning. The government has to endorse this vaccine being used today, and the so-called blood poisoning is from infection caused by scratching with dirty hands or nails, and dirty clothing.
More than 1,300 persons in Pendleton County have been vaccinated within the last year. Next school year, the law to have every teacher and pupil vaccinated or stay out of school will be more rigidly enforced.
No arms of any person out of all those vaccinated have been lost in Pendleton nor elsewhere.
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More than $6 million will be distributed to those members of the Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association who are owners of the higher grades of the 1922 tobacco crop which was purchased by the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. some time ago in connection with a considerable purchase of the 1923 crop.