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Today's News

  • Annual Derby Day was a success

     

    Warm temperatures and the sun peeking out of the clouds helped Williamstown draw a crowd for their annual Derby Day festival.

    There were food vendors, dancing, singing, kiddie rides, free entertainment and a parade.

  • Help Stamp Out Hunger on May 11

     

    On Saturday, May 11, all the post offices in Grant County will join forces to fight hunger as part of the annual “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive.

    Support of this project is easy. Simply place non-perishable items in your mailbox on May 11 and postal carriers will pick it up.

  • Derby Weddings
  • Calhoun serves as legislative page

     

  • Stolen car ends up in creek

    A vehicle believed stolen from Corinth ended up upside down in a creek May 6 along U.S. 42 in Verona.
    Passing motorists contacted the Boone County Sheriff’s Office around 5 a.m. when they noticed the 1996 Ford Probe.
    When deputies responded, they found the vehicle full of water and the driver’s door open.
    A search in the car and the surrounding area did not lead police to locating the driver.
    The sheriff’s department believes the car was headed westbound of U.S. 42 before leaving the road and ending up overturned in the creek.

  • HEALTH DEPT. RECEIVES HONOR

    The Northern Kentucky Health Department is one of the first in the nation and only one of 11 to receive recognition as a high-performing health department from the Public Health Accreditation Board.
    Northern Kentucky Health Department, which includes Grant, Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties, as well as Three Rivers Health Department, composed of Owen, Pendleton, Gallatin and Carroll counties, and the Franklin County Health Department were the only three health departments in Kentucky to be accredited.

  • GRANT CO. CTC WINS PEAK AWARD

    In Anna Sullinger’s culinary arts class, Grant County High School students are making a carrot cake. In Larry Butler’s agriculture class, students are getting down and dirty preparing plants for sale in the greenhouse.

    In Brad Schadler’s electrical class, students are learning to work on a circuit. In the next room, other students are learning to weld, while in another classroom, other students are up to their elbows working on a car engine.

  • WHS searches for new principal

    Williamstown High School Principal Dave Johnstone hopes his second retirement lasts longer than his first.

    Johnstone initially retired in September 2009 after spending 20 years as principal in four different schools in northern Kentucky.

    Six months later, he replaced former WHS principal Misty Buchanan on an interim basis before being hired for the job full-time.
    Johnstone will be retiring again after this school year.

  • 2013 GRANT COUNTIAN OF THE YEAR

    Darrell Link began his career in politics with an appointment to the Grant County Tourism Commission. He went on from there to be elected to the fiscal court as a magistrate, followed by a successful run for judge-executive in 1998.
    He’s served on numerous boards and commissions and received awards for partnering with other agencies on programs, for being a good neighbor, an outstanding official and for his work in the community.

  • Girls on the Run joyful, unique, confident

    Girls on the Run is a program for girls in the third through fifth grade and the sixth through eighth grade to participate in an after-school program. This program is designed to allow every girl to recognize her inner strength.

    The lessons encourage positive emotional, social, mental and physical development. Each school discusses body image, self-esteem, bullying, gossiping and peer pressure among other topics. Physical activity is woven into the program to inspire an appreciation of fitness and to build habits that lead to a healthy life.