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  • From fighter to survivor: WHS graduate is cancer-free

    Skyler Faulkner just had the best week of her young life.
    What culminated in her walking onstage at Williamstown High School to receive her diploma, began with even better news.
    The 18-year-old is now cancer free.

    “I was so relieved. I was so happy,” Skyler said. “I really don’t have time to do anymore treatments. I just have so much that I want to accomplish that I don’t need this holding me back anymore.”

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  • FDIC investigation at Grant bank yields consent order

    Grant County Deposit Bank has seen some rough months, thanks to a weak economy, new tougher banking regulations, loss of board members and theft by a vice president, but the financial institution’s customers remain a priority to the bank’s board of directors.
    “Grant County Deposit Bank, at the present time, is operating the way it always has and will continue to serve its customers in the same manner it always has,” said Wade Gutman, a 17-year-member of the board.

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  • Budget passed despite objections

    The unanimous vote approving the 2014-15 county budget was quick June 2, but not before some displeasure was expressed with sheriff’s office funding.
    Judge-Executive Darrell Link was set to ask for a motion to approve the second and final reading of the 2014-15 budget as Sheriff Chuck Dills spoke up.
    “I just wish we had the opportunity to go over this budget with you as we have in past years,” Dills said to the fiscal court. “There is some concerns of some shortfalls that I wish we could have addressed with the court.”

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  • TEMPERS FLARE AFTER COURT

    A passionate debate about the sheriff’s office budget boiled into a heated confrontation and near physical altercation after the June 2 Grant County Fiscal Court meeting.
    The incident featured Judge-Executive Darrell Link and members of the Grant County Sheriff’s Office exchanging words with Link allegedly making threats and bumping into an off-duty deputy.

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  • THE WINNERS IN THE MAY PRIMARY ARE . . .

    By the #s:

     

    Judge-Executive

    3 Richard L. Austin - 1,179
    Keith Ellington - 307
    Anitra Jump - 411
    Shirley Wilson - 469

    Magistrate 1st District

    Timothy Burgess II - 194
    Ray “Bubba” Kinmon - 289
    Douglas Tatum - 136
    3Royce “Rusty” Willoughby - 364

    Magistrate 2nd District

    3Wanda Hammons - 568
    Carisa Hassman Hughett - 306

    County Clerk

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  • Braves draw tough district in football realignment

    The Grant County Braves football team finished with a 1-9 record last season.

    Things will not be getting any easier for GCHS after the Kentucky High School Athletic Board of Control announced its football realignment plan for the 2015-18 seasons.Grant County will play their familiar foes of Connor, Cooper, Scott and South Oldham high schools for the 2014 season before the changes go into effect.

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  • EXCELLENCE IN BUSINESS

    When a tornado ripped through Crittenden a couple of years ago, Carolyn Thomas Thompson threw on a pair of blue jeans, grabbed an umbrella and drove to the area, leaving her car parked a distance away from Harvesters’s, she personally began walking the streets and checking on her clients.

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  • Dry Ridge man busted for pot growing operation

    An indoor marijuana grow operation has been shut down in Dry Ridge.
    The Grant County Sheriff’s Office received a tip from the Northern Kentucky Drug Strike Force about the alleged operation at the Harrison Ridge Road home of  60-year-old Laurel Kenney Jr.

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  • Inmate death brings lawsuit

    The estate of an inmate who ultimately died after suffering medical issues at the Grant County Detention Center has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.
    Mark Burden filed the lawsuit in federal court in Covington as representative of the estate of Danny Ray Burden.
    The allegations include violation of civil rights, negligence, infliction of emotional distress, wrongful death and conspiracy.
    The many defendants include Jailer Terry Peeples, multiple jail employees, an inmate trustee and employees of Advanced Correctional Healthcare.

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