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25 Years Ago - June 15, 1999Pendleton County Fiscal Court scrapped its plans to construct a 75-bed jail, and voted June 9 to build a 30-bed jail instead.Jim Roseberry made the motion for the county to build a 30-bed jail with capabilities of enhancement, if possible, as needed.The cost of the new...

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25 Years Ago - June 8, 1999At a special school board meeting June 2, bids were approved for additional classrooms, gym and track at Phillip A. Sharp Middle School.The board originally opened bids a month earlier and rejected them as too high.

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25 Years Ago - June 1, 1999The Pendleton County Fiscal Court voted 6-3 on May 27 to close a portion of the Lock Road connector.Magistrate Bill Klaber said the county bends over backward to get new industry into the county.

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25 Years Ago - May 25, 1999Pendleton County Schools athletic director Tom Woofter and tennis coach Tom Appleman proposed to the school board that all middle school and high school students invovled in any school sport be required to submit to a mandatory drug and alcohol testing before being...

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25 Years Ago - May 18, 1999Pendleton County Judge Henry Bertram provided Falmouth City Council with a draft of an interlocal government agreement to create a countywide emergency operations center, which would include an enhanced 911 system for Pendleton County.The agreement would engage the county...

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25 Years Ago - May 11, 1999Bids for an addition to Sharp Middle School were discussed at a special board meeting May 7.The construction project will add nine classrooms, a gymnasium and a multi-purpose outdoor sports field.Estimated cost of the project was set at $2.67 million.

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25 Years Ago - May 4, 1999Several members of the community, members of the Pendleton Fiscal Court, Butler City Council, Pendleton Industrial Authority, Chamber of Commerce, and family and friends of Medialog Inc. gathered April 29 at the Menzie Bottoms location for a groundbreaking.Medialog owners...

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25 Years Ago - April 20, 1999Jerry Warren, 55, of the Louisville area, was piloting a single-engine Mooney airplane at 5:30 p.m. April 17 when engine trouble forced him to make a crash landing on the AA Highway near Iler Road, about a quarter mile south of the Pendleton County line.Warren survived...

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25 Years Ago - April 13, 1999Pathfinders, seventh-grade students from Philip A. Sharp Middle School, spent most of the day Tuesday, April 6, picking up garbage and debris on various vacant lots and streets in the city of Falmouth.The day’s work was part of a beautification project being sponsored...

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25 Years Ago - April 6, 1999A public hearing was held on April 1 at Northern Elementary to provide reasons for the proposed closing of the Lock Road connector and to allow citizens to express their support of nonsupport for this action.This connector is located between highways 177 and 3162.Roger...