April 29, 2025
25 Years Ago - May 2, 2000
Pendleton County Fiscal Court voted 7-2 to implement a 1% payroll tax for everyone who works in the county.
The April 27 vote to raise additional revenue was a giant step for the court. The issue of building a new jail frequently has been a topic of discussion at every fiscal court meeting the past two years. Magistrates votes to implement the tax starts the wheels in motion to have a groundbreaking date set for construction of the new jail.
Magistrate Jim Roseberry explained his vote against the tax by saying, “You did not include a net profit tax for these businesses that earn money here in the county and take that money out of our county. I think they ought to have to help with this.”
The county estimates that the 1% payroll tax will bring in about $542,000 in revenue a year.
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Carletta Chaney of Maple Avenue in Falmouth was quite surprised on April 29 when she was recognized as being the recipient of the Sol and Jenny Goldberg Award.
The award is given on an annual basis to a Pendleton County resident who has distinguished himself/herself by significant volunteer contributions in many areas benefiting the community.
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A long-awaited and much hoped for water rescue department became a reality for Pendleton County on March 14. A nonprofit organization, Pendleton County Search and Rescue, has taken more than a year and a half of dedication and to faith to be realized.
The concept for a water rescue team developed after the flood of 1997, when several member of the Falmouth Fire Department began to discuss the need for such an organization due to th continuous threat of flooding to Pendleton County residents.
50 Years Ago - May 2, 1975
The mass rally at Pendleton County High School on April 24, attended by 2,500 or more citizens, was the largest gathering ever held in the county.
The outstanding event of the evening was the combined 400-voice choir of Pendleton County students directed by Mrs. Tim Woodhead and the high school band, directed by James Schweitzer.
Dr. Lyman Ginger, state superintendent of public instruction, was royally greeted by the large crowd and by the Pendleton County Teachers Association.
The purpose of the rally put on by the Pendleton County Citizens Advocacy Steering Committee was to advocate for increased funding from state revenue sources for the county elementary and secondary schools.
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A Falmouth native has been appointed a director of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Division of Conservation
William Bell will assume the duties of director of conservation education on May 1. He follows James Gilpin, a 35-year employee of the department. Gilpin, 63, of Lexington, is retiring.
Bell has been with the department for 29 years. He began as a conservation officer in Bullitt County.
Bell is a University of Kentucky College of Education graduate, and a veteran of both World War II and the Korean War. * * *
Sheila Ockerman, 11, and Nancy Moreland, 11, of Falmouth have tried to join the boys softball team in Falmouth, but there was not room.
So now, the two young ladies want to form their own softball league. They are looking girls ages 8 to 13 to call to sign up.
75 Years Ago - May 5, 1950
May 10 will mark the beginning of Butler High School’s 49th annual graduation exercises. The Class Night program, “Round the World Air Cruise,” will be presented at 8 p.m. in the auditorium.
This play takes some of the seniors around the world via airplane in search of George (played by Ernest Kelly Jr.), another member of the class whom they want to write their class play.
Also included on the program will be Rob Taylor, welcome address; Mary Ruth Beckett and Hilda Moore, class history; Robert Lee Bay, Ida VanArsdall and Evelyn Hess, class grumblers;Ann Buchanan and Everett Austin, class poem;Loretta Ashcraft, Marvin Pelfrey, Cora Bell Biddle and Laura Jean Pangburn, class prophecy; Eugene Crowley and Jean Caldwell, class will; and Geneva Courtney, Dorothy Caldwell and James Cox, giftorians.
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Pendleton County Court Judge William J. Newkirk had a busy week.
Conservation Officer John W. Taylor had two men before the court for fishing without licenses. Both were fined, as were those in three other fishing cases that had been continued.
A car owner was fined $15 and costs for permitting a juvenile to drive his car.
One man was before the court and was fined $10 and costs for being drunk in a public place.
100 Years Ago - May 1, 1925
The six cases of Thurman French and family against the L&N Railway Company were called in the Pendleton County Circuit Court. Before going to trial, the cases were compromised by the railroad company for $2,000 plus physicians’ and hospital bills.
These cases grew out of an accident that occurred at the Shelby Street crossing when an automobile driven by French was struck by an L&N train. Members of his family were injured.
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The opening program for Boys Week was held at the Falmouth Christian Church Sunday night when Harley Chiles, youthful minister and a senior at Falmouth High School, delivered a message to the people of the town.
All churches in the city gave way for the service and the church auditorium would not hold all of them who desired to attend.
Young Chiles took for his subject “The Open Door to Service.” He called attention to the responsibility of parent to child and child to parent.