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Nicholas Kells is the Grant County High School Youth Performance Award winner for February.
He is a sophomore at GCHS and is the son of Greg Kells and Michele Middleton of Dry Ridge.
Extra-Curricular activities: Varsity soccer, national English honor society, technology student association (VP), Mu Alpha Theta (math honor society), student council (vice president for class of 2018), future problem solving team, VEX Robotics and Northern Kentucky youth advisory board member.

As he became the dead man walking, the priest walked closely behind reading accounts from the Bible concerning hell and its eternal torment. Approaching the electric chair, the criminal looks back at the priest and says, “If the place you read about is real, and there is a possibility that I may go there in a few moments, then why haven’t you told me about it sooner?

Controversy has swirled around Grant County Deputy Judge-Executive Scott Kimmich being paid while out of the office to recover from a health scare.
Kimmich returned to work full-time at the courthouse last week after receiving a letter from his doctor, according to Judge-Executive Steve Wood.
However, some have complained that Kimmich should not have been paid while he was in the hospital and recovering from home.
Williamstown resident Howard Chipman requested numerous open records, including pay sheets, and recently took them to the Grant County grand jury.

With warmer weather on the horizon, members of Fitness For Life Around Grant County are getting busier.

FFLAG members are working to organize the annual Derby Dash on May 7 at the Williamstown Baptist Church. The 5K course runs through Williamstown and mail in pre-registration must be postmarked by April 30.