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  • Daughter wants killer to stay in jail

    Summer Raines Nickell has faded and tattered photographs that she looks at frequently.

    Those handful of pictures, along with stories handed down from her aunts and uncles, are all the memories she has of her mother, Lawanda Sue Raines.
    Raines was murdered by Keith Bramblett in 1989, but it would take 12 years for him to confess to the shooting and show Raines’ family where he buried her body under a pile of rocks near the Grant/Owen county line off Ky. 22.

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  • Dry Ridge woman takes up power tools, lands in magazine

    Heather Patterson can wield a mean whisk, but she’s also not afraid to grab a power tool and make something.

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  • 2012 WHAT MADE THE NEWS?

     

    January

    • Four accidents leave 75 vehicles damaged on Interstate 75 after snow and ice fell on Grant County.

    • Three fires in less than a month leaves two families homeless and a summer home in ruins. A two-story log home just off Day Road, a two-story home in Mason and a home on Napolean-Zion Station Road were destroyed in the unrelated blazes.

    • The Fox television series “The Real Winning Edge” highlights Felicity Spicer’s fight against thyroid cancer.

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  • Fire/EMS funding talks to continue

    Despite the Grant County Fiscal Court voting down a proposed emergency services taxing district, the debate of how to increase funding for fire and EMS services likely will continue into the new year.
    Magistrates Brian Linder, Bobby Young and Richard Austin voted against the proposed taxing district with Judge-Executive Darrell Link voting in favor of the proposal.

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  • Dry Ridge boy finds best gift is giving to those in need

    Sure Ben Tanner wants stuff for his birthday and Christmas, but he’d rather see children who may not have as much as he does have something under their tree on Christmas morning.


    Thanks to Ben’s generosity, several children woke up to a better Christmas with presents that Ben donated to the Crittenden Baptist Church’s annual holiday campaign.

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  • GCHS teacher dies from stroke

    A popular Grant County High School teacher died last week.

    Tom Pitts, an electrical technology instructor at the Grant County Career and Technical Center, died Dec. 17 following a stroke over the weekend.
    He began teaching in Grant County when the career/technical center opened in 2011.

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  • MESSAGES OF HOPE

    Earl Hampton, minister of the Vineyard Church of Grant County, came to Mason-Corinth on Dec. 17, to speak with the students in Heather Curd’s third grade class about the events that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary on Dec. 14.


    On that day a gunman entered the school and shot six adults and 20 students before turning the gun on himself.
    Sara Edwards, Family Resource Coordinator at Mason-Corinth Elementary, requested that Hampton visit Mason-Corinth Elementary.

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  • FIRE/EMS TAX DEAD

    The Grant County Fiscal Court voted 3-1 against establishing an emergency services taxing district.
    All three magistrates (Dick Austin, Brian Linder and Bobby Young) voted against the district, while Judge-Executive Darrell Link voted in favor of it.
    The vote took less than five minutes at the Dec. 17 fiscal court meeting.
    The Grant County Fire Chiefs Association said they are disappointed “that the court has chosen not to move forward on this critical issue.”

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  • PEDESTRIAN KILLED IN WEEKEND ACCIDENT

    A Union man was killed while walking along Ky. 36 on Dec. 16.
    William “Jargo” Bowling, 53, was struck by a pickup truck driven by Sheila Ray, 36, of Williamstown around 8 p.m. in the 3000 block of Ky. 36. Ray was driving a 2001 Dodge pickup and was traveling east.


    According to Kentucky State Police, Ray was unable to avoid hitting Bowling because he was walking in the road and there was oncoming traffic.
    Bowling was transported by helicopter to University of Cincinnati Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 3:45 a.m.

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  • It's a family tradition

    For some families, Christmas means gathering and baking cookies or candy, for others it’s letting the grandchildren decorate the family tree and for others it’s putting up a miniature Christmas village, but these scenarios all have on thing in common, they’re all about family.


    The News invited readers to share their holiday traditions and here is a sampling of how Grant County families celebrate.


    Horton’s enjoy trimming ‘birthday’ tree

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