October 28, 2025
25 Years Ago - October 31, 2000
Judge Executive Henry Bertram and state Rep. Tom McKee presented each fire department in Pendleton County with $10,000 on Oct. 25 to be used for community development.
“Your state representatives and senators worked hard to keep this money in the governor’s budget,” Bertram said.
“We realize our fire departments are always in need of additional equipment and there is nothing better to know than you have save lives and homes,” McKee said. “We know this won’t help a lot, but it will help some.”
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Anderson Equipment of Broadford Road, Falmouth, was recognized by Snapper as one of the top 10 dealers in North America.
Pendleton County Judge Executive Henry Bertram, a former Snapper dealer, brought the Snapper lawn and garden dealership to the county in the early 1970s. Roger Anderson, owner of Anderson Equipment, bought the Snapper dealership from Bertram in 1997.
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Pendleton County Fiscal Court on Thursday approved using Local Economic Government Funds to raise an ambulance radio antenna from the new Butler water tower and toward construction of a building to house radio equipment at its base.
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Farm Bureau Players of the Week are James Ridley and Jason Ritter from the seventh- and eighth-grade Pendleton Panthers football team.
50 Years Ago - October 31, 1975
Pendleton County Circuit Judge John P. Lair has ruled that the City of Falmouth residents will vote on the local liquor option a second time on Dec. 13.
The court decision came Monday morning after argument were presented that the local option petition, used to call the first election on Sept. 28, 1974, be thrown out of court because it had illegal signers.
The dry forces won the first election and are expected to appeal Lair’s ruling.
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The Pendleton County High School Marching Wildcat Band, one of 16 Kentucky bands invited to the Contest of Champions in Murfeesboro, Tennessee, received a rating of “excellent” for its performance Saturday.
The contest was held on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University before a crowd of approximately 12,000 people.
The Contest of Champions is recognized as the toughest and most intense competition of its kind in the United States.
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Local student Mary Beth Field was presented a Kentucky Colonelship by Gov. Julian Carroll.
The presentation was made at a breakfast with the governor honoring 16 students from the commonwealth who represented the state of Kentucky this past summer at a National Institute on Cooperative Education at Michigan State University.
75 Years Ago - November 3, 1950
About 225 head of cattle were on the Falmouth stock market Thursday. Top calves brought $35.50, the highest price for 1950.
Seconds and butchers brought from $25 to $32. Stock cattle sold from $30 to $120; canner and cutter cows from $15 to $13.50 per 100; fat cows from $18 to $20 per 100; and bulls $18 to $21.50.
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Five Pendleton County 4-H members entered the Lexington Tobacco Board of Trade 4-H tobacco show on Oct. 28.
James Latimer won $5 for fifth place and Donald Powell $5 for sixth. Also competing were Gerald Clayton, Billy Dotson and Ronnie Case.
The judges stated that the tobacco was of excellent quality and had been carefully sorted.
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A group of Falmouth church women representing the Baptist, Christian, Methodist and Pilgrim Holiness churches, recently met to plan for the observance of World Community Day, which comes the first Friday in November.
The program this year is built around a presentation of the work of the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations. The local observance will be at the Falmouth Christian Church as “a day which tells others of our faith, that the way of peace can be found.”
100 Years Ago - October 30, 1925
The Citizens Telephone exchange building in Falmouth caught fire about 10 o’clock Monday night, but an operator heroine refused to leave her post, continuing to take calls while firefighters battled the blaze.
A stovepipe running from the heating plant in the pay station room on the first floor became overheated, igniting the paper on the wall, and the flame soon ate its way into the frame of the building.
A man coming through the alley at the side of the building noticed the fire and turned in the alarm.
A brisk wind was blowing and had the fire gained a few minutes headway, Falmouth might have seen the most destructive fire in its entire history. The block in which the telephone building is located is composed largely of old frame buildings, the Masonic Building being the only one in the block which is of brick.
Miss Winifred Broderick was on duty at the time and she displayed remarkable self-possession. The switchboard room where Miss Broderick was on duty was completely filled with smoke when the fire department arrived. The lower doors were locked and when the men called to her, she did not respond.
Thinking that she may have become suffocated by the smoke, the doors were broken down and when the firefighters entered the room, Miss Broderick was sitting at the switchboard, calm and self-possessed, with the receiver cap on her head, answering calls. The room was so filled with smoke that she could not be seen from the doorway.
She remained at the board while the fire department was putting out the blaze and steadfastly refused to leave her post of duty.