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With four seniors on their roster, senior night on Feb. 10 was special for the Grant County Lady Braves.
Friends and family celebrated those whose high school basketball careers are drawing to an end.
For seniors E.J. Kearns, Sydney Jones, Destiny Kerst and Destiny Chaidez, nothing could have been better but to walk away with a 33-point win against Augusta.

The struggle between the Grant County Jailer and the Grant County Fiscal Court continues.

The situation started shortly after all took office last year and has centered on whether the judge and magistrates are stepping over their authority in approving operations at the center or whether the jailer has control over the facility’s operations.

After months of discussion, both at public meetings and between the judge, magistrates and Jailer Chris Hankins, the facility still does not have policies and procedures nor a command structure in place.

Grant County will be home to the Northern Kentucky Health Department’s first-ever needle exchange program.

The goal of the program, which allows participants to exchange dirty, heroin-tainted syringes for clean needles, is to halt the dramatic rise of hepatitis C cases in northern Kentucky during the heroin epidemic.

The path for approval of the syringe access program began when the District Board of Health passed a resolution on June 10, 2015.
The City of Williamstown then passed a similar resolution on Aug. 18, 2015.

(Editor’s Note: The Grant County News publishes all items in police beat that are submitted from each individual police agency. The News does not omit names from police reports.)
CORRECTION:
A Kentucky State Police accident report that was published in the Feb. 11 issue of the Grant County News should have said Trooper Zachary Alsip investigated a single vehicle accident at 9:04 a.m. Jan. 24 on N. Main Street. The driver involved was Keith Blake, 68, of Crittenden, driving a 2000 Chevrolet. The News apologizes for the error.