By now many of you have seen the reports of Graeter’s closing their location in Newport / Fort Thomas near Starbucks. The franchisee who runs this location is ‘closing’ all 8 stores. While I do not know the specifics related to International Brand Services LLC, the franchisee, it appears they are having some financial difficulty. […]
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Another Reason Newspapers are Dying
Trying to find any coverage of the Highlands game tonight on Cincinnati / NKY.com and it appears they didn’t even have a reporter at the game. The semifinals of the state championship and no reporters cover the game. Once again I turned to Twitter and found multiple people reporting a Highlands victory 34- 6. One […]
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Fort Thomas Home Sales Mirror Area Trends
It has been a few months since I have taken the temperature on the Fort Thomas real estate market and as we approach the end of the year it seemed as good a time as any to take the temperature on the market. Since I am a numbers guy lets take a quick look at […]
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Fort Thomas Matters Turns 3
It has been a great year for Fort Thomas Matters and we hope to continue to add value to the community by providing the best news and commentary on Fort Thomas. A few highlights of this past year: Overall traffic to the site has tripled since our second anniversary Cincinnati.com added Fort Thomas Matters as […]
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Great Weekend Fun with the Kids
Here is a great idea if you want to get the kids out of the house this weekend. The Middle School is presenting a production of Once on This Island – junior version. This is a fun play and shorter version perfect for kids with short attention spans. It is so short in fact that […]
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Incoming Commissioners Reaffirm Committment to Smoking Ban Repeal
I published my last post and indicated I still had some open questions about the brilliance of passing a ban that would likely be overturned in a few short weeks. Some of the feedback that I received from that post included the following points: While it would likely be symbolic a ban could send a […]
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Safety Alert – Insight Communications Going Door to Door
Yesterday my wife received visitors at our door indicating they were with Insight and were there to make an unscheduled visit to check our service. As you may have guessed this raised some red flags with my wife who asked for credentials before letting them in our home. Once in the house the visit seemed […]
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Smoking Ban Takes First Step
The draft of the smoke free ordinance was posted last night on the Kenton County website. While it is technically a Kenton County ordinance this is the draft that will likely be used by the Campbell County Commission as to gather public input. The various county commission meetings will be the first step in getting […]
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Fort Thomas News – Week of November 1
Some random observations and mentions of Fort Thomas around the internet: 1. What did everyone think about mid-afternoon trick or treating? In my opinion it just wasn’t the same. I enjoyed the fact that I could get the kids to bed at a reasonable time but trick or treating with the sun up just didn’t […]
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Fort Thomas & Campbell County Results
Quick recap of the races this evening that impacts Fort Thomas: 1. Council is unchanged. This is the right result – I have had my doubts about Jeremy Canter as a real candidate and despite my misgivings on Lisa Kelly she is a better option than Canter. 2. We have a new member on the […]