June 24, 2025
25 Years Ago - June 27, 2000
Pendleton County Fiscal Court voted 7-2 to build a new jail rather than transport prisoners out of county.
Magistrates David Dunaway and Bill Klaber cast the no votes.
Even though the cost to transport prisoners would be much lower than building a jail, several magistrates voiced their concern that the believed it was the best thing for the county to keep its own jail.
The court also voted for Judge Executive Henry Bertram to call James Woodrum, architect from Architecture Plus, to start the design for a 67-bed facility.
The estimated cost of building a jail is $2.1 million, and the estimated operating cost is around $600,000 a year.
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For one of the 48 GED graduates on June 22, the special day was a half century in coming.
Seventy-year-old graduate Bonnie Kavanaugh did not finish high school with her class in 1945 because she had to stay home and care for her ailing mother, Clema Wilson.
Following Bonnie’s freshman year in high school, her mother became too ill to help care for the family farm on Hayes Station Road and too weak to do all the mothering to the three remaining on nine children still at home. Bonnie was 15 at the time.
More than 50 years later, Kavanaugh was excited to return to school and finally earn her general equivalency diploma, and even enjoyed geometry, a subject she never had in 1945.
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As part of a nationwide project to raise money to build the National World War II Memorial in Washington, the Hardin Browning Post 109 of the American Legion, Falmouth, and the Woodhead Funeral Homes are leading the local effort by organizing a balloon release at the county courthouse following the Pendleton County Day parade on July 1.
50 Years Ago - June 27, 1975
Things are looking up for Pendleton County Hospital and the future seems much brighter this week with the promise of two new doctors for the community.
The Doctors Committee announced that Dr. Fisher, 55, of Parkersburg, West Virginia, who has been in semi-retirement, will come to Falmouth to set up a new practice in the former office of Dr. William Townsend on Shelby Street.
Dr. Fisher rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps, is single, and will rent an efficiency apartment here. He expects to open his office in July.
A second doctor, now in California, has promised to open his practice here on Aug. 15. Dr. Martin, 30, is a native of Eddyville, Kentucky. His wife is formerly of Stanford.
Martin had advertised in the AMA Magazine that he would like to practice in Kentucky, which was spotted by Townsend.
Martin has just finished his time in military service. He and his wife have two children, and they will live in the Gedge home.
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The Pendleton County Co-op on Elm Street in Falmouth advertised “Good buys on freezers.”
The advertised stock of Capri chest models ranged from five cubit feet for $235 to 25 cubic feet for $369.
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So far in church league baseball competition, St. Francis Xavier leads the 12-team county league with a 7-1, record, followed by Falmouth Christian and Fairlane, each 4-1, and Blanket Creek-Gumlick at 3-1.
75 Years Ago - June 30, 1950
About 2,000 people attended the air show Sunday afternoon at Falmouth Airport, according to the Pendleton County Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Undoubtedly, it was the largest air show ever produced in Falmouth. About 100 airplanes came in from Dayton, Louisville, Harlan, Ashland, Cincinnati and Boone County.
Betty Skleton was the featured aerial artist and gave spectators real thrills. Roy Osborne, sergeant of the state patrol, gave an acrobatic flight. There were two parachute jumps, and on his last jump, the jumper landed with the national flag flying and the national anthem playing.
Lt. Paul Ashcraft performed his strafing act and hit his target the second time over.
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A.B. Arnold of Butler, superintendent of Pendleton Coounty Schools, has been named to a 23-member committee by Gov. Earle C. Clements, which will study the functions and resources of the state government.
The committee, which is to determine the state’s responsibilities to the people and suggest methods of financing the responsibilities, is to report its findings to the 1952 General Assembly.
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The Christian Youth Fellowship of the Falmouth Christian Church is planning an ice cream social on the church lawn from 7 to 9 p.m. July 5.
John Wright, Doris Jean Hobday and Pat Wyatt were appointed a special committee on arrangements.
The young people are renovating their all-purpose room in the church basement.
100 Years Ago - June 26, 1925
J.M. Parker has on display at his store an enlarged photograph of the first volunteer fire department of Falmouth. The picture was taken48 years prior at the time the city bought new hand equipment to fight fires.
The department at the time was composed of the businessmen of Falmouth, and only two of the entire membership are living, B. Koch, now of Covingotn, and William Thomas, who is now 91 years old.
Lurking in the background but eager to get in the foreground are three barefooted waifs, George Koch, Phil Koch and W.J. Shonert, all still living 48 years later.
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Quite a number of relatives gathered Sunday at the home of Mrs. Alice Johns to remind her that June 22 was her 73rd birthday. Family came for the surprise party from Cincinnati, Covington, Mentor and California.