March 24, 2026
25 Years Ago - March 20, 2001
Because of the manpower shortage in the Falmouth Police Department, the city was not scheduled to be patrolled by any officer on March 18 and 19.
Greatly alarmed by this turn of events, City Council met at 2 p.m. Sunday to deal with the problem.
Falmouth has three available officers, which includes Acting Chief Jimmie Hamilton himself, to cover the city 24 hours per day, seven days a week.
The problem, as the legislative body saw it, was the reluctance of the officers to work overtime. It was decided by the lawmakers that if an officer refused to work overtime, then that officer should be dismissed by Mayor Gene Flaugher.
Flaugher informed council that he and Hamilton had recently interviewed six applicants. Three of these individuals were deemed acceptable.
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Those days of helmets crunching, long passes and spiking over the net will be coming to Pendleton County schools.
During a special meeting March 13, members of the School Board approved a measure to being a boys football program at the middle and high school.
This decision comes after more than two years of discussions between the Pendleton County Youth Football Boosters and officials from the school district.
50 Years Ago - March 19, 1976
Since Falmouth residents voted the city “wet,” several businesses have filed for liquor and beer licenses.
Mayor Max H. Goldberg appointed Charles E. Ashcraft as the city liquor administrator, he Ashcraft will soon take the license requests under consideration.
Those applying so far include Robert A. LaFollette, 625 Earle Ave.; Riverview Liquors, 113 Secton St.; Pic-N-Pac Carry Out, U.S. 27 and Barkley St.; Wander Inn Carry Out, U.S. 27 and Pendleton St.; Bi-Rite Supermarket, Heritage House, U.S. 27; and Wells Open-Air Food Market, 109 Second St.
Those advertising liquor sales included Corner Liquor, 300 Main St.; and Blue Corner, 609-613 W. Shelby St.
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It’s white paint was sand-blasted and the Pendleton County Jail took on a “new” look.
Dill Young, remodelers did the sandblasting. The brick and mortar in the building, presumed built in 1884, will now be pointed up.
The update include a new roof and gutter. Interior remodeling is scheduled.
Jailer Joe Greene has moved back into the jail and received his first prisoner early Sunday. Other prisoners from Cynthiana and Alexandria will be brought in this week.
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Tim Coleman, 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Coleman of Monument Street, Falmouth, was crowned Northern Kentucky District spelling champion March 13 at Drawbridge Motor Inn in Fort Mitchell. His title is the Grand Champion Bicentennial Speller.
Twelve Norther Kentucky school syste4ms competed for the honor and a $25 U.S. Savings Bond. He will now represent 22 local education associations in the statewide NKEA Bicentennial Spelling Bee to be held April 14 in Louisville.
75 Years Ago - March 23, 1951
The House of Representatives of the Kentucky Legislature has voted a resolution memorializing the Congress of the United States to take such action as may be required to proceed with and complete the proposed Falmouth Dam on the Licking River.
The measure passed by a 43-12 vote. It took the utility and costs interests in the Legislature by complete surprise and further, the resolution humiliated the opponents of the Falmouth Dam by asking that the barrier be built for both flood control and power development.
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Increase in price support rates on dairy products in a move to bolster milk production has been announced.
The new rate, effective April 1, are being raised on a national average from $3.07 to $3.69 per 100 pounds, and butterfat from 60 cents to 67.6 cents a pound
This will be good news to the many farmers in this area who depend upon dairying for an income.
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In the “Among the Sick” column reported that Danny Woodhead of Falmouth is confined to his bed with mumps, Charlie Rush of Caddo was taken to Speers Hospital March 12 in the C.B. Peoples and Son ambulance; Mrs. Julia Abercrombie was returned from St. Elizabeth Hospital Saturday in the Thomas, Fossett and Yelton ambulance; Mrs. T.C. Moberley of Falmouth is resting as well as could be expected at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Covington; and Bobby Donahue, 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. D.B. Donahue of near Knoxville, is confined to the Booth Hospital suffering with rheumatic fever.
100 Years Ago - March 19, 1926
Three men, one of them from Pendleton County, are in the Harrison County Jail at Cynthiana, charged with the robbery of merchandise stores at Boyd and Berry.
The robberies occurred several weeks ago, but arrests were not made until last week.
The prisoners are William Mitchell of Newport, John Kerr of Covington and Nick Buskirk of Morgan.
They will be tried in May in Harrison County. Bond was set at $2,000 each. All three men remain in jail.
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Prominent Covington attorney Orie Ware, a native of Pendleton County, announced that he is entering the race as a Democrat to represent the Sixth District of Kentucky in Congress.
Ware was born on a farm near Peach Grove.
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Users of electric current in the City of Falmouth will receive a discount of 5 percent on their light bills after April 1 as a result of action taken by the City Council at an adjourned meeting in the office of John A. Woodhead, city clerk, last Wednesday.
An audit of the receipts and disbursements of the municipal light and water plants for the year 1925 shows that the light plant has paid more than an $8,000 profit.