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The Grant County News is now accepting resumes for sports correspondents to cover boys and girls basketball (high school, middle school and elementary), high school wrestling, cheerleading and dance competitions.
Correspondents work as independent contractors and are paid per story/photo.
Resumes should be sent to jbakernantz@grantky.com. No phone calls.
Interviews for correspondents will be scheduled based on resumes received.

They aren’t quite 18, but that did not stop local elementary students from making their vote heard.

Kindergarten and fifth graders were just two of the groups of students at Crittenden-Mt. Zion Elementary who headed to the polls Nov. 2 to choose a president.

Using a makeshift voting booth, one-by-one, the students circled the photo of the candidate they wanted for president.
After they cast their ballot into a baby wipe container, they received an American flag sticker, symbolizing that they voted.

The fourth of six planned Cash Mobs takes place on Thursday, November 15.  The meeting location will be next to Marlene’s on Main Street in Williamstown. Shoppers should gather between 5 and 5:30 p.m. to learn of the secret shopping destination and enjoy refreshments provided by Marlene McComas of Marlene’s.

Anyone can participate by committing to spend at least $10 at the mystery shopping locations that will be announced after 5 p.m. at the meeting site.

When Chris Ammerman heard the news that his friend, Craig Ruber, had been killed in a tractor accident, he thought it was just another prank that Ruber was notorious for pulling on friends.

“It’s just hard to wrap your head around,” said Ammerman, Grant County’s extension agent for agriculture.
Ruber, 40, of Dry Ridge, was moving hay on a farm he owned on Lightfoot Fork Road in Pendleton County, when a bridge he was driving across collapsed around 5:15 p.m. on Oct. 28.