Again, the power of the new media scoops the old. This note was posted to our Facebook page a few hours ago: Graeter’s Great news Northern Kentucky: Two Graeter’s locations will be reopening in NKY! You heard it here first! The Buttermilk Pike store in Ft. Mitchell & the Grand Avenue store in Newport/Ft. Thomas […]
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Highlands QB, Patrick Towles, Commits to Kentucky
And this is why social media is awesome. Found this little nugget 4 minutes ago on twitter via KySportsRadio : 2012 QB Patrick Towles, rated on ESPN’s 150 for 2012, gives UK verbal according to Steve Jones. HUGE pickup. Of course, Towles is the quarterback for YOUR Highlands Bluebirds. Other quick hitter sports related links: […]
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5 Things to Know About Green Cleaning Recipes
Amber DePrez, Founder of Dutchgirl Enterprises and Vice President of the Fort Thomas Business Association, has a lot on her plate. From her the Dutchgirl Enterprises website: Amber DePrez, founder of Dutchgirl Enterprises, is an internationally recognized serial entrepreneur, speaker, facilitator, coach and author. Although born and raised in Northern Kentucky with small business roots, […]
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Bullet Points from 2010 Annual Police Report (Part 2)
Still pouring over the 2010 Annual Police Report. I’ll highlight some of the newsworthy areas: Newsworthy cases: January 18th – Sgt. Windgassen saw a subject sitting on the side of the I-471 overpass with this legs hanging over. Sgt. Windgassen was able to persuade the bridge jumper to come down and be transported to the […]
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Local Family to Host 5K Run in Memorium for 6-year old
This past Monday would have been Paige Alessandro’s 7th birthday. The middle child of Steve (HHS ’87) and Heather, bravely battled a spinal vascular disease her entire life and suffered a very severe spinal stroke in 2008. After overcoming many obstacles, Paige died peacefully last May from acute liver failure which was more than likely […]
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Thursday Quick Links
A few quick notes: 1) More burglaries in Fort Thomas. Received a Nixle message from Det. Brad Adams of the Fort Thomas Police today. Here’s the message: Over the past couple of weeks, the City of Fort Thomas has experienced a couple of burglaries. The burglaries appear to have occurred during daytime hours and entry […]
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Ft. Thomas Police Annual Report 2010 Statistics
At the council meeting on Monday, Chief Daly presented the 2010 Ft. Thomas Police Annual Report. I’ll be pouring over some of the details of the 24 page report over the next week or so and highlight some of the goings on in the city over the last year bit by bit. I’ve got to […]
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NKY Rivermonsters Put Up 79 in Win
The Northern Kentucky Rivermonsters had their first home game at the Bank of Kentucky Center on NKU’s campus Friday night. The UIFL’s best scoring offense tallied a league high, 79 points, behind Jared Lorenzen’s season high 325 yards and 18 0f 27 attempts and 7 TDs. I was one of the nearly 3,000 fans in […]
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5 Things to Know About Curing a Hangover
Sorry for being a bit tardy on this post today. After mixing it up with my friends at Brothers and Beef O Brady’s yesterday for St. Patricks Day, and having a near heart attack from the UK game, just now getting around to it. I thought this post would be most appropriate for the day […]
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Mystery Park on Memorial/Waterworks
Does anyone know what this is? I guess with all the construction at the water treatment plant, I completely missed this. It’s got to be somewhat new, as the new grass and straw would indicate. It’s just kind of random. It features: A really nice bridge over what looks to have been (or potentially could […]
