October 14, 2025
25 Years Ago - October 17, 2000
Pendleton County High School graduate and softball standout Wilson “Butch” Hays will be inducted into the Northern Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame on Oct. 18.
Over 35 years, Hays has played in numerous state, regional and national tournaments, winning MVP honors on more than 10 occasions. He has been named all-world twice and won three world championships with the Florida Crush.
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Pendleton County Judge Executive Henry Bertram told Fiscal Court that the Locust Grove-Gumlick bridge had been in the state’s six-year road plan, but now has been removed.
The cost to replace the bridge is about $976,000, he said.
Bertram urged magistrates to contact their representatives and senator to ask for help getting the bridge put back into the six-year road plan.
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A piece of Pendleton County history will be remembered at an Oct. 21 ceremony.
Members of the Pendleton County Historical Society will unveil a commemorative plaque recognizing the old covered bridge in Butler.
Once Kentucky’s — and possibly the nation’s — longest covered bridge, the wooden structure spanned 456 feet and allowed people to cross the Licking River into Butler.
It was torn down after sustaining a great deal of damage in the flood of 1937.
50 Years Ago - October 17, 1975
Pendleton County Jaycees are planning their haunted house on Main Street in Falmouth for the next two weekends, plus a street dance on Halloween night.
The Jaycees have converted the old Ritter Meat Market into a haunted house. While the haunted house will be open for two nights next week and three the next, the Jaycees are planning a big Halloween night for Friday, Oct. 31.
They have asked Falmouth City Council to rope off Main Street between Second and Shelby streets for a street dance, a hot dog stand and a costume contest.
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Dr. X, the new Pendleton County doctor due to arrive in Falmouth this month, had not put in an appearance as of Monday morning.
He is to have an office in the doctors’ portion of the Farm Bureau building. A letter was received from him in late September confirming his coming.
Dr. Kun Hyung Kim, the bone specialist, also has offices there. Kim and his wife have moved to Cynthiana, where he also has a practice. His wife continues to teach at Pendleton Middle School.
It is reported that they needed a four-bedroom home and none were available in Falmouth.
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Sheriff Harold Wright, Deputy Lloyd Spaulding, state Trooper Rod Elliott and Falmouth police Assistant Chief Joe Green made a raid at a home on Morgan-Broadford Road Tuesday afternoon, seizing allegedly stolen goods.
Two people were arrested, and more arrests were expected. Names were not yet released.
Officers said they recovered stolen stereo, fishing equipment, assorted appliances, guns, tools and canned goods, including 32 cans of beans.
75 Years Ago - October 20, 1950
Councilor Albert Baker, the mayor of Falmouth, England, who is visiting all the Falmouths in North America, arrived Oct. 11 at Falmouth, Massachusetts.
He left Liverpool on Sept. 29 and has already visited Falmouth, Nova Scotia and Falmouth, Maine.
He is making his way to Falmouth, Kentucky, which got its name from settlers from Falmouth, Virginia, who migrated to Kentucky in 1776.
Baker, 61, a native of London, moved to Falmouth, England, 30 years ago. He is a baker by trade as well as name, and is one of the town’s most prominent businessmen.
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In keeping with the Halloween spirit, the Butler High School seniors are presenting their class play, “Aunt Susie Shoots the Works,” at 8 p.m. Oct. 26.
The mystery-comedy will provide an evening of laughs and excitement for the audience.
Betty Rose Flairty stars as Aunt Susie Stowe, an eccentric old maid; Donna DeHart plays Aunt Susie’s niece Joy Herbert; Mary Louise Bowen plays Joy’s maid, Scarlet Deane; and Donna Moneyhon is Madame Zola, who sees all, knows all and tells nothing.
100 Years Ago - October 16, 1925
The concrete road from Greenwood to Butler, a distance of about three miles, was thrown open last week for travel. This gives the traveling public the finest road in the county in and out of Butler.
On account of this road being blocked for more than a year, the citizens and businessmen of Butler have suffered much inconvenience and loss of trade.
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The first frost of fall came last Friday night, Oct. 9. The weather was cold and ice formed in exposed places.
Very little damage was done. A few late patches of tobacco that had been cut and were standing in the field were damaged to some extent.
Almost all the corn is in the shuck and is in fine condition. Much of it will make over 40 bushels to the acre.
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Protests against 100 percent changes in textbooks in the small towns and country school districts of Kentucky each year, by order of the State Textbook Commission, has become so general and so widespread that the State Legislature of 1926 very probably will be obliged to pass laws correcting the practice.
Cities of the first, second, third and fourth classes adopt books every five years, but their adoption is made by the local boards of education.
If unnecessary and unjust changes are made, the people in the cities can put their finger on the men responsible, but parents in rural districts cannot hold their officials responsible when these 100 percent changes are made, because they’re made in Frankfort.