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Faith, family and friends make up the foundation that retired engineer Jack Eckler, the 2011 Grant County Volunteer of the Year, has built his life on.
As a young man, he stepped into parental responsibilities when his mother Amma Eckler died suddenly, taking responsibility for his younger brothers.
“Jack put his own life plans on hold in order to finish rearing Chuck and Richey,” said his sister Janis Fox. “Jack became the rock of our family.”

Grant County voters can head to the polls May 17, but County Clerk Leatha Conrad is not expecting a big turnout.
“I think it’s going to be pretty light,” Conrad said about the primary election. “I haven’t heard many people talk about it. We have not had many people request absentee ballots or come vote on the absentee machines.”
Since the election is a primary and does not involve any local races, voters may decide to skip filling out the ballots.
Polls will be open at 23 precincts in Grant County from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

A Grant County Detention Center employee has sued Jailer Terry Peeples after she was demoted in January.

Tracy McIntosh of Williamstown filed the lawsuit, which also lists Grant Fiscal Court and Judge-Executive Darrell Link as defendants, in Grant Circuit Court on April 11.

McIntosh was hired as a deputy jailer in August 2006 and since was promoted to corporal and eventually to payroll and accounts clerk in the administrative section of the jail.

Jimmie thought he was a good father. Three years later, he knows he was lying to himself.

The 30-year-old Grant County resident would come home after a day of landscaping full of energy and play with his daughters.

Jimmie was there for them when they needed him, taking them to the bus stop every morning and driving them to school if need be.

A football-field length away in a shed behind his Dry Ridge home, Jimmie was making methamphetamine daily.