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Today's News

  • Grant County’s Got Talent

    Senior Dalton Hoffman won first place at the GCHS talent show March 18. He sung "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" and played an acoustic electric guitar. Kendall Hopper, won Grand Champion Talent for the third consecutive year at the Grant County Middle School talent show on March 26.

    At GCMS, Casey Hinton won first place in the instrumental category, Libby Gbur and Shelby Courtney won first for vocal duet, Courtney Jo Young won first for vocal solo and Daniel Crockett won first place for his dance routine.

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  • Grant County resident will compete for national title

    Hayley Frances Leach won the title of Miss Kentucky Junior Teen America in January. To win the title Leach competed in four areas of competition, including private interview, talent/spokesmodel, physical fitness and evening gown and was the only one in the pageant’s history to score perfectly on the private interview segment.

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  • Walters runs in Flying Pig

    It was rainy and dark at 6 a.m. May 2 when Jeff Walters loaded a crowded bus traveling toward the hills of Eden Park in Cincinnati.

    Walters, of Dry Ridge, was preparing to participate in his seventh Flying Pig Marathon as part of the Performance Pipe four-man relay team. His bib number, 8582, matched that of teammates Phillip Foley, of Hebron, Ky., Norm Hageman, of Plano, Texas, and Barrett Jesseph, of Knoxville, Tenn.

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  • Beach celebrates 94th birthday

    Agnes Poor Beach, of Dry Ridge, celebrated her 94th birthday at the April meeting of the Dry Ridge Homemakers at the Grant County Extension office in Williamstown. Beach has been a member of extension homemakers for more than 50 years. She spent her birthday, April 22, with her family. 

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  • They said what?

    Voters got a chance to “Meet the Candidates” for the May 18 primary during a forum April 29 at Williamstown High School.

    Sponsored by the Grant County News and the Grant County Chamber of Commerce, the event featured a question and answer session with candidates for judge-executive, jailer, sheriff, magistrate for the first district and state representative.

    Questions were determined by public submissions and the editorial team of the Grant County News.

    Jamie Baker-Nantz, editor of the Grant County News, served as moderator of the event.

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  • Community Calendar 5-13-10

    BOOSTER GROUPS

    Grant County Band Boosters - 7 p.m. May 18, GCHS band room. For more information, call Jeff Shelton at 859-391-8555.

    CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS

    Williamstown Kiwanis - Noon Wednesdays, El Jalisco Mexican Restaurant, Williamstown.

    Williamstown F&AM No. 85 - 7:30 p.m., May 13.

    Grant County Fair Board - 7:30 p.m. May 13, Grant County Extension Office, 105 Baton Rouge Road, Williamstown.

    CLUBS

    Grant County Women’s Club - May May 13. Call Lila McDaniel (859-824-4417) for more information.

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  • GCHS Jazz Ensemble and Percussion Ensemble to perform

    The Grant County High School Jazz Ensemble and Percussion Ensemble will give a free concert at 7 p.m. April 29 in the GCHS auditorium.

    The concert will feature guest saxophonist David Threlkeld, professor of jazz studies at University of the Cumberlands.

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  • Don't cook or clean, but his kitchen is ready to feed hungry

    Larry Spears doesn’t cook, he doesn’t serve and he doesn’t clean at the Spears Kitchen in Dry Ridge, but he is the driving force behind getting people a good, hearty, warm meal for free five days a week.

    For all of his work in Grant County, Spears was named the Grant Countian of the Year at the annual Chamber of Commerce awards banquet on April 24.

    “It means a lot to me because I’ve spent a lot of my life here,” Spears said.

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  • Grant Illusion Magic Show scheduled for May 7

    The Grand Illusion Magic Show will be 7:30 p.m. May 7 at the Williamstown High School gymnasium. Tickets may be purchased in advance by calling 859-234-8450. The advanced price is $7.50 or $10 for adults at the door and $7.50 for children. Children under age 5 are free.

    The show is sponsored by the Williamstown Kiwanis and proceeds will benefit the North Key Project, the Senior Scholarship program and Little League Tournaments.

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  • Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all

    I spent Mother’s Day in West Virginia with my mother, Reda Cochran Bailes, and her sisters, Erma and Velma. Or as my great nephew Ethan wrote, when he was 7-years old, in his essay, “We have a big dinner on Mother’s Day, and the ‘Ants’ come.”

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