September 2, 2025
25 Years Ago - September 5, 2000
Robert M. Jones was selected as the new supervisor on the Pendleton County Conservation District Board of Supervisors.
He is filling the unexpired term of Jonathan Smith, who recently moved to Harrison County.
Jones served 37 years as an Extension agent, the last 22 as the agent for agriculture in Pendleton County.
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A 2 1/2-ton Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife hatchery truck sunk in approximately 13 feet of water at the first dock at Kincaid Lake State Park on Aug. 28.
Fishery technicians Wes McClain of Frankfort and David Hale of Nicholasville had just exited the parked vehicle.
The truck was backed onto the docking ramp and was holding 4,575 catfish in its large tank. The men were checking the temperature of the water when they heard a loud pop. The truck, which was turned off and in gear, abruptly rolled into the water and sank.
Members of the newly formed Search and Rescue attached a hook to the submerged vehicle, which was then pulled out of the lake by Kenny Robert’s tow truck.
There were no injuries and the fish survived.
50 Years Ago - September 5, 1975
Pendleton County Schools Superintendent Richard Gulick reported that district enrollment totaled 2,410 students on Aug. 29, the first day of school.
Totals were Northern Elementary, 612 students; Southern Elementary, 584; Pendleton Middle School, 452; and Pendleton High School, 762.
(Editor’s note: Fifty years later, Superintendent Joe Buerkley reported enrollment of 2,046 students as of Aug. 18, 2025.)
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During its monthly meeting on Aug. 26, CPA Ted Renaker told the Pendleton County Hospital board that the hospital had lost more than $90,000 for the year.
He said that it was not because of inefficiency or work of the staff, but because the hospital simply had not had enough patients.
He cautioned the board that higher minimum wage rates would go into effect Jan. 1. He recommended the board raise rates on single rooms from $50 to $75 a day, and that semi-private be increased from $45 to $58 a day.
Other services are to be raised 20%, but maybe the emergency room fee of $15 should be left the same.
The real solution, he said, is to improve the lack of doctors situation.
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Houchen’s Clothes Shop in Falmouth advertised a back-to-school sale, including red low-cut or white high-cute basketball shoes for $3.99, men’s white handkerchiefs at 13 for $2.99, misses and ladies jeans by Wrangler for $6.99 and $7.99, and young men’s school pants for $5, $7 or $8.
75 Years Ago - September 8, 1950
Three carloads of about 17 people were brought before Pendleton County Judge William J. Newkirk late Monday by state police. Four of them were charged with breach of peace and fined $20; one with reckless driving and another with improper driving, the latter two being fined $25.
Cause of the trouble between the parties was not learned by the state police.
This new business ran the total fines issued by Judge Newkirk to $370.
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To strengthen and increase traffic of all types on U.S. Highway 27, running from Mackinaw City, Michigan, to Miami, Florida, the Kentucky and Tennessee Association will hold its annual meeting Sept. 8 at the Lafayette Hotel in Lexington.
Among those planning to attend is the Pendleton County director, Keith Fisher.
This new highway is now the leading north and south span in Kentucky. It is undoubtedly one of the best roads in America and is drawing traffic daily by the hundreds.
U.S. 27 promises to be a healthy business route for years to come, and the people along this road intend to prove to the motoring public that they appreciate their business.
100 Years Ago - September 4, 1925
Falmouth city schools will open Monday, Sept. 7, after the summer vacation. Regular work will begin in all departments of the school on that date, and pupils are expected to report for the beginning of the year’s work at 8:30 o’clock.
Luke Gulick, janitor at the school building, has been busy for several weeks giving the entire building a thorough cleaning, and everything will be in tip-top shape for the opening of school.
The registration this year is expected to be above average as a number of country pupils have already signified their intentions of attending the city school this year.
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George H. Wright, formerly of Falmouth but now of Huntington, West Virginia, last week was awarded the grand prize for the best-dressed man at the National Retail Clothiers Convention in Chicago.
But life is hard for the well-dressed man as Chicago dispatches say that Wright was obliged to change his clothes 18 times during the day in order to display his wardrobe effectively.
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The eagle eye of Jailer Rollie Hart on Sunday no doubt prevented an escape in Falmouth.
Several friends of inmate Melbourne Hoover went to visit him in the jail Sunday and took him a watermelon.
Hart went into the jail with the boys, where he remained until the visit was concluded. While the prisoners were feasting on the melon, Hart made a special inspection of the jail. In the ceiling of the bullpen, above the cells, he noticed that a panel was loose. Climbing up on the cells, he pulled the tin down and found a hole in the ceiling, which would have enabled the prisoners to make their escape at any time, had the jailer not found the opening.
One of the prisoners confessed to having helped in the work of making the hole to make his escape.