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Today's News

  • Back to School 2009

    Folders, pencils, notebooks, oh my!

    As the start of the new school year rapidly approaches, parents are loading up on school supplies for their children.

    Angela Hedenberg of Crittenden shopped at the Dry Ridge Wal-Mart with her two children, 7-year-old Porter and 5-year-old Macy.

    Both children were excited when looking at the backpacks.

    While Porter was not able to take home a new "Transformers" backpack to join his "Spiderman" and "Iron Man" ones at home, Macy was able to choose one for her jump into kindergarten.

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  • Home invasion is 'isolated incident'

    Grant County residents should not be afraid inside their homes.

    That’s the message that police want to get across after a family was tied up inside their Dry Ridge home on July 23 by two men armed with guns.

    “This was an isolated incident involving a specific person in a specific house on that specific street,” said Kentucky State Police Detective Fred Scroggins.

    “I don’t believe this was random,” he said.

    Police were called to 15 Ellen Kay Drive, the home of Rex Benson, at 11:30 p.m. regarding a home invasion/burglary.

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  • Fire damages car contest winners' home

    Jimmie B. Coulson won a new car earlier this month and then her house caught on fire July 27.

    “Something good will come out of this,” she said. “I’m still blessed.”

    Coulson said she wasn’t sleeping well because of a headache so she went to watch TV where she must have fallen asleep, only to awakened by the clanging of smoke detectors in her home on Chipman Ridge Road in Williamstown.

    “We opened the basement door and there was heavy smoke everywhere,” she said.

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  • Bigger, better fair comes to town

    The Grant County Fair started behind the Grant County Courthouse before they outgrew that space.

    Now, the fair has moved to their new fairgrounds on Baton Rouge Road in Williamstown after outgrowing the Grant County Park in Crittenden.

    “We outgrew the park, so we’re going to the new grounds and we’re hoping we can continue to grow,” Patsy Kinman, fair board secretary, said. “You have to keep building on your fair in order to have something different each year. We want to meet the needs of the community.”

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  • Demons’ golf team returns full squad

    The Williamstown boys’ golf team head into their 2009 season with a roster of returning players.

    The Demons return all of their golfers from last year’s team and coach Sean Binder believes that will be one of their biggest strengths.

    “We didn’t lose anybody, so we should be a lot stronger than we were last year,” Binder said. “We picked up some new golfers, so I’m looking forward to see how they mature this year.”

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  • Road work will close Helton Road on July 27

    Starting on July 27, Helton Road (also known as School Road or KY 3025) will be closed at U.S. 25 and Cherry Hill Lane in Williamstown for approximately two weeks for bridge repairs.

    Trucks must use Baton Rouge Road to cross the railroad during this time.

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  • Stewart, 14, signs acting contract, films pilot

    Joe Stewart, 14, of Dry Ridge has signed an acting contract with Frederick Levy Management 101 of Los Angeles and Bryan Leder, BLT of New York.

    Stewart recently attended The Mike Beaty Talent Expo in Dallas with his agent, Jake Lang of Wings Model Management in Cincinnati. He received 16 callbacks, including Nickelodeon and Disney for his performances in monologue, cold read, two person scene, runway and athletic wear.

    He will be leaving later this month for New York where he will be auditioning for TV and film.

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  • Police need help in solving theft at Cash Express

    Cash Express on Broadway in Dry Ridge was the victim of theft on July 17.

    Dry Ridge Police Chief Rick Kells said a woman, attempting to disguise herself as a man, entered the business at 10:54 a.m.

    When the clerk told the woman she’d need to show a driver’s license to open an account, she handed the clerk a note demanding money, along with a bag.

    She also took the clerk’s cell phone.

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  • For the Record 7-30-09

    PROPERTY TRANSFERS

    May 27:

    (Special Warranty Deed) Federal National Mortgage Association to Bertha Gail Marshall, lot 224, Section 6 of the Harvesters, $80,900

    May 28:

    (Special Warranty Deed) Heritage Bank, Inc. to Kathy Coffey, lot 83, Section 2 of Eagle Creek Subdivision, $135,000

    May 29:

    Marion E. Hammonds and Lucille Hammonds, as Co-Trustees of the Trust Agreement and The Delaney Family Trust, by Betty Delaney, Trustee, Odella Delaney, Judy Atha, Robert Atha, husband and wife, Cordova Road property, $25,000

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  • The wild (sometimes wet) world of Williamstown wiffleball

    Downpour after downpour, the Williamstown Wiffleball League played through the torrential rain, trying to wrap up their ninth annual tournament.

    But after a final thunderstorm flooded the outfield of Williamstown High School’s Hale Field, the tournament ended just before the playoffs started on July 25.

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