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  • Body found on I-75 identified

    The partially decomposed body of a female found Aug. 27 by mowing crews on Interstate 75 north of Crittenden has been identified.
    The body was identified as Melinda Sue Ingram, 28, of New Richmond, Ohio.
    State mowing crews reported they had found something suspicious to police, which later confirmed it was a body.
    A cause of death is still undetermined and the investigation is ongoing by Kenton County Police.
    Anyone with information regarding Ingram’s death is asked to call Detective Paul Anderson at 859-392-1952.

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  • GCHS annual ‘powder puff’ football game benefits Autism Speaks

    Hailey Leach, a sophomore at Grant County High School, is on a mission to raise awareness of autism and she’s taking her game to the Grant County High School football field on Nov. 8.
    Leach, the GCHS Family Career and Community Leaders of America Chapter president, will be leading a ‘powder puff” football team against the Williamstown High School FCCLA Chapter at 5 p.m.
    The cost to play is $15, which includes a T-shirt. Gate admission is $1 and concessions will be available for purchase.

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  • Thanksgiving meals delivered

    The Williamstown Baptist Church is again delivering Hope Thanksgiving meals to shut-ins and those in need throughout Grant County.  
    In 2012, this project reached 650 people in the community, the largest number since this ministry started.  
    The meals will be delivered by noon on Thanksgiving Day.   
    Monetary donations will be accepted to help provide the meals. Checks should be made payable to the Williamstown Baptist Church. Note the donation is for the Hope Thanksgiving Day project.  

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  • Rush is not on to raise drop out age

    More than 72 percent of Kentucky’s 173 school districts have adopted the new “Graduate Kentucky” standard raising the compulsory attendance age from 16 to 18.
    Grant County and Williamstown Independent Schools are two districts who are not in any hurry to make the change.

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  • Fall Fling
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  • 1 YEAR LATER: NO ARRESTS IN PARK ARSON

    It’s been a year since someone torched the Dry Ridge Consolidated Colored School, a historic, structure inside Grant County Park in Crittenden and Connie Taylor is still mad.
    “I’m still very upset. I’m angry and upset in humankind,” Taylor said.
    She has spent countless hours researching and documenting the history of black families in Grant County.

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  • Five indicted in DR explosion

    Five Dry Ridge residents were indicted by a Grant County grand jury last week for their involvement in an explosion that ripped the back wall off of Locust Ridge Apartments.
    Indictments for wanton endangerment, criminal mischief, possesion of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia were returned against:
    • Jarrad S. Browning, 28
    • Zachary S. Kennedy, 23
    • Jeffery J. Combs, Jr., 31
    • Kayla J. Piper, 21
    • Niki M. Carmack, 25
    Combs was also indicted for being a persistent felony offender.

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  • MAKING THE GRADE

    Improvement in assessments were seen in nearly all local schools in the second year of Kentucky’s Unbridled Learning for All Assessment and Accountability System.
    The scores, which were applied to test scores and other data for the first time for the 2011-12 school year, were recently released by the Kentucky Department of Education.

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  • WALK TO REMEMBER
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  • Holiday help registration begins Oct. 21

    The Grant County Holiday Assistance Program, in collaboration with the Family Resource Youth Service Centers and Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission, has begun to accept registration for holiday assistance.
    Each year, many Grant County residents receive holiday assistance for children by the generous donations from the community.
    This year registration will start Oct. 21, 2013 and continue until Oct. 31, 2013.
    There will be no registration after Oct. 31.

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