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Today's News

  • Williamstown High School Third nine weeks Honor Roll

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    Beighle

    Benjamin

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    Davis

    Andrew

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    Dezarn

    Olivia

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  • Corinth approves Dollar General site plan

    The Corinth Board of Adjustments met on March 18 and approved a site plan for a proposed Dollar General Store.
    Dollar General was asking for a variance to the county’s zoning ordinance for four parking spaces per 1,000 feet of interior space as oppsed to the 5.5 spaces recquired in the county’s zoning ordinance.
    Corinth Mayor Billy Hill said the city had been working with representatives from Dollar General for several months.
    The store would be built at the site of a defunct car wash on Hwy. 330.

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  • Distribution garden continues to grow in third season

    Heading into its third year, the Grant County Distribution Garden has proven if you grow it, they will come.
    The Grant County Fiscal Court, Grant County Extension Service, along with the Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission and the Vineyard Church of Grant County, joined in May 2011 to plant a 1-acre community garden on the grounds of the county maintenance facility on Hopperton Lane in Dry Ridge.
    The mission of the garden is to help feed those in need in Grant County, in particular seniors and low-income families.

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  • Fires destroy several homes in Crittenden

    Grayish black smoke spilled from the attached garage of Jimmy Miller and Jennifer Cavin’s brick home on March 21 on Lebanon Road. A child’s blue plastic wagon sat in the yard as firemen fought the blaze with multiple hoses snaking across the grass.

    A charred air conditioner unit sat in the driveway.
    Yellow flames ripped from the bay window in the front of the house.
    All Miller and Cavins could do was sit and watch their home, their memories and the life they had made in Crittenden go up in smoke.

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  • ADDICTED

    Shayne’s mother knew her baby boy was up to something.
    Throughout each day, she would call her son at his Bellevue home to check on him.

     

    If he didn’t answer, she would be on her way.
    A day like any other in November 2011, Shayne picked up when his mom called, but his slurred speech worried her.
    She was at his house in minutes trying to get him out of a locked bathroom.

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  • Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial comes to town

    Storme Vanover grew up with the Vietnam War playing on the family’s black and white television every night.
    Her foster brother served his country during that war and Vanover still vividly remembers traveling with her family to meet him at the Detroit Airport where police officers held back the crowds from mobbing the soldiers.

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  • CHANDLER NAMED YPA WINNER

    Olivia Chandler is the Williamstown High School Youth Performance Award winner for March.
    She is a senior at WHS and is the daughter of Kristy Dunaway and William Chandler.

    Extra-curricular activities: I play in pep band, concert band and am a former member of the marching band.
    Community involvement: I am a faithful member of the Williamstown Baptist Church and participate on the youth missions’ activities. I am also a member of the National Honor Society and the Future Farmers of America.

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  • Mason-Corinth basic training graduation
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    Name: Emily Kiniyalocts

    Job title: 5th Grade Language Arts teacher at Crittenden-Mt. Zion Elementary

    Job duties: My responsibility is to encourage my students when they’re down, give them band-aids when they have scraped knees, be a facilitator of learning, and prepare my students to be successful, helpful, caring members of our great society.

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  • Grant County Real Estate 411

    What a year it was in real estate!  With interest rates at an all time low, special loan programs developed to help buyers with credit challenges and plentiful inventory - it looks like there was something for everyone out there last year.  
    According to the Northern Ky. Multiple Listing Service, sales statistics show that during 2012 there were 174 single family homes sold in Grant County.  That’s up from 2011 totals, which showed 159 single family homes sold.  

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