Today's News

Grant County can get into the Christmas spirit early with a day of free activities Dec. 5 during Santa’s Wonderland.

The holiday event will start later than last year with Breakfast with Santa being changed to a lunch date with Old Saint Nick from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Williamstown High School Cafeteria.

After lunch, “The Little Mermaid” musical will be performed from 3:30 to 5 p.m. by the Lexington Children’s Theater in the Williamstown High School gym.

The Christmas parade will begin at 6 p.m. on Main Street in Williamstown.

I was lucky enough to travel to Cincinnati with Mason-Corinth Elementary’s fifth grade classes last week.

They were going to Great American Ballpark for an educational program provided by the Reds and it sounded like a fun way to see Grant County’s students outside of the classroom.

On Aug. 6, 2002, Chris Breeden’s life changed forever.

Breeden was involved in a single-vehicle accident while riding his motorcycle on Knoxville Road. He was in a drug-induced coma for two weeks after the accident. When he awoke, he found out he had shattered both of his femurs, had a compound fracture below his right knee, had broken his back, neck, jaw, nose, eye socket, had cracked his skull and tore nerves out of his spinal cord, leaving his right arm paralyzed.

Breeden was in the hospital for 31 days.

Kentucky State Police are seeking information about two burglaries that occurred in the early morning hours of Nov. 28.

Both Family Dollar locations in Crittenden and Dry Ridge were burglarized when police say two suspects, believed to be white males, wearing ski masks and gloves pried open the front door and took an ax to the safe inside one of the stores.

A video at the Crittenden store indicates it was burglarized between 2:30 and 3 a.m., said KSP Detective Fred Scroggins.

Anyone with information should call Scroggins or Detective Nate Moore at 859-428-1212.