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  • Annual fair nears brings new events, activities

    New events, musical entertainment and a way to avoid parking headaches highlight the 2011 Grant County Fair and Horse Show.

    The week-long festivities at the Northern Kentucky Fairgrounds on Baton Rouge Road in Williamstown will be July 29 to Aug. 6.

    Rides will begin at 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 1 and go through the last day of the fair.

    Admission is $8 per person and includes unlimited rides and grandstand events.

    Children under 2 years old receive free gate admission, but must purchase individual ride tickets for $2 per ride.

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  • Another Place In Time 7-21-11

     

    Welcome to a new Another Place in Time photograph. If you know who is pictured, call the News office at 859-824-3343 and share your guesses with us. If you’ve got an old photo, you’d like to see featured, bring it to the News office. Photos can be scanned and returned.

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  • Curing root crops for storage

     

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  • Turning Back the Clock 7-21-11

     

    15 Years Ago

    July 18, 1996

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  • Upcoming events: July 14, 2011

    Elliston Baptist hosts Mullins retirement
    There will be a retirement luncheon for Bernadine Mullins from noon to 3 p.m. July 31 at Elliston Baptist Church, 5750 Elliston Mt. Zion Road in Dry Ridge.
    After retirement, she plans on spending time with her husband, Vernon, reading and being involved with church activities.
    The party is being given by her daughter, Deanna Caldwell. All friends and family are invited to attend. No gifts are requested.

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  • Another Place In Time 7-14-11

     

    The APIT photo features 1951 Corinth School Graduates: left to right, Marcella Rogers, Louise Green, Nancy Dailey, Hazel Mulligan and Frances Livingood. There were no guesses this week. Thanks to Hazel Gordon of Williamstown for providing the photo. If you’ve got an old photo, you’d like to see featured, bring it to the News office. Photos can be scanned and returned.

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  • When a geranium is not a geranium

     

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  • Turning Back the Clock 7-14-11

     

    15 Years Ago

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  • REUNIONS

    Burgess family to hold reunion
    The family of the late James Burgess will hold a reunion at 1 p.m. July 17 at the Meadowview Community Center in Dry Ridge.

    Fortner family plans reunion
    The Fortner family reunion will be held at 11 a.m. July 24 at the Grant County Park in Crittenden. Everyone is welcome.
     

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  • PREPARING FOR THE FAIR: What’s buggin’ you?

    When Gabe Stephenson sees a bug, he doesn’t run for the fly swatter. Instead, he reaches for his net and jars.

    He is already preparing his entomology project for the Grant County Fair.

    Stephenson has been participating in 4-H since he was 9-years-old and has been involved with entomology, the study of insects, for two years. Stephenson creates an insect collection in which he captures, freezes, defines and displays different specimens.

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