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  • School cuts felt locally

    Financially strapped school districts across the state may soon take another hit in state funding.

    Kentucky Commissioner of Education Jon Draud recently sent an e-mail to all state superintendents notifying them that the Office of the State Budget Director wants the Kentucky Department of Education to submit a plan for a 4-percent funding cut across the board.

    The cut would reduce the state budget for primary-12th grade education by approximately $132 million, Draud wrote.

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  • Farm manager finds sweet solution for piles of poop

    If you’ve got horses, you’ve got waste. If you got horse manure, then you’ve probably got a smell and flies.

    At Folsom Ridge Farm, their poop doesn’t stink. Well, it doesn’t after Todd Foster, the farm manager, gets through with it.

    Foster, who has worked with horses most of his life has started to recycle the farms horse manure by composting it.

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  • Nusiance ordinance tabled

    The second reading of a lengthy nuisance ordinance that would have targeted properties with out of control weeds, dilapidated buildings and excessive noise was tabled by the Dry Ridge City Council.

    “When we got this nobody realized it was going to be 19 pages,” said Mayor Clay Crupper. “I read the whole thing twice. According to this, you couldn’t even burn wood because the smoke would bother somebody. If you’re working on a car, you couldn’t do it because the noise would be real loud. This has created a monster for us.”

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  • Wilson steps down as superintendent

    Williamstown Independent Schools soon will be looking for a new superintendent.

    Charles Ed Wilson, who is in his sixth year with the district, has decided to retire two years before his contract was scheduled to end.

    In a letter dated Nov. 10 to Williamstown School Board members, Wilson gave his written notice that he will be resigning from his position effective July 1, 2009, giving the board eight months to recruit and select a replacement.

    Wilson’s wife, Rose, also will be retiring as a teacher at Dry Ridge Elementary.

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  • News seeks Letters to Santa Claus

    If you’ve got a Christmas wish, you better get it on paper.

    The Grant County News will be publishing Letters to Santa. The deadline to submit a letter is 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 5. Photos can also be included with the letter.

    Send letters to: Letters to Santa, c/o Grant County News, P.O. Box 247, Williamstown, Ky 41097 or e-mail to: gceditorial@fuse.net or fax to 859-824-5888.

    Letters will be published in the Dec. 18 issue of the Grant County News.

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  • Early morning blaze kills one

    A Williamstown man died in an early morning fire on Dec. 2 near the Grant/Pendleton county line.

    The home at 199 Moore Road, off Hogg Ridge Road, was completely engulfed in flames when firefighters from Dry Ridge, Williamstown and Falmouth arrived around 2:35 a.m.

    Police have declined to identify the victim until an autopsy is performed. But neighbors said it was Kenneth Searp.

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  • Feeding the need

    For the past 11 years, the Williamstown Baptist Church has put the “thanks” in Thanksgiving by delivering nearly 3,000 meals to needy Grant Countians.

    Last year, the many volunteers provided 254 meals of turkey, dressing, gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans, rolls and dessert.

    The numbers reached the highest it has ever been this Thanksgiving with 443 people served during the Hope Thanksgiving Meal.

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  • Salvation Army will set up kettle at Wal-Mart

    The Grant County Unit of the Salvation Army will bring out the red kettle from 6 a.m. to noon on Friday, Nov. 28 at Wal-Mart in Dry Ridge.

    In December, volunteers will be setting up from 4 to 9 p.m. on Friday and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday.

    “I’m anxious to see how our collections will go this year, with everyone struggling and with the economy,” said Dick Austin,

    Anyone wanting to volunteer to be a bell ringer should call Lanette Whalen at 824-3040.

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  • Got salt?

    The temperature has dipped and that means the potential for snow and ice aren’t far behind.

    While some welcome the white and shiny stuff, most of those who are forced to drive in it just want to see snowplows pushing it aside or road crews treating the roads.

    This winter, though, getting the snow off the roads could be a problem as cities and counties may find themselves short on salt.

    Grant County, however, has salt.

    “I haven’t had any trouble getting any,” said Kim Crupper.

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  • Murder/mystery 'haunts' Williamstown eatery

    Dressed in a sparkling evening gown, Williamstown High School teacher Deana Cummins was sprawled out on the floor of Michael’s on Main, fatally stabbed by an unknown killer.

    The restaurant was locked to avoid anyone from escaping.

    From the movie director and plastic surgeon to the action star and makeup artist, everyone was a suspect in the star’s murder.

    Fortunately for Cummins, a senior class sponsor, her death was only part of the first-ever Hollywood Scandal murder mystery at Michael’s on Main.

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