This past weekend Fort Thomas celebrated its local businesses with the Merchants and Music Festival. Fort Thomas Matters sincerely enjoys promoting local business any way we can, so we reached out to a local entity to feature in our next installment of “5 Things to Know”. Bowman’s Framing is a reliable and reputable business on […]
Tag: 5 Things to Know
Tuesday Pre-Hump Day Notes
– We are currently a little under 500 “likes” on our Facebook page. Can you take a second out of your day and “like” our page so I can send you a DivotCard that’s been sitting on my desk for 2 weeks? – You may have noticed a few changes to the site, most notably […]
5 Things to Know about Extreme Couponing
Nathan Engles, a 2000 graduate from Highlands High School, is the King of Coupons. Actually if you Google him, you’ll find his moniker is Mr. Coupon, but let’s not get picky. Dude knows his coupons. In a Fort Thomas Matters throw-back series, Nathan and his website www.weusecoupons.com are the subject of this week’s feature of […]
5 Things to Know Why Music is Good for Kids
by Discover Music with Nancy Knauf discovermusicknauf@gmail.com 859-512-7400 St. John’s United Church of Christ 415 Park Ave. Newport, KY 41071 There’s nothing else I can add to this column, by Nancy Knauf. If she is as good and professional at Kindermusik as she was with this column, I know the kids are in good hands. […]
5 Things to Know About the Highland County Club
via The Community Recorder. I think The Recorder has a tough job. Filling the pages of a weekly newspaper when there is no real news is hard and the results sometimes lead to boring, if not uninspired stories. Have to give it up to Chris Mayhew, who did a really interesting piece about the course […]
5 Things to Know About The Royal Wedding
Sorry for the tardiness, thought we had someone lined up for this week’s feature, but apparently not. I googled 5 Things to Know about the Royal Wedding, and this article came up. It’s pretty lazy, but then again, it’s Van Damme Friday, I worked a long week, just got done cutting the yard and I’m […]
5 Things to Know When Calling for a Baby Sitter
I can’t imagine how hard it was to be my baby sitter. I think back to what I put Ellie through when I was a little one, and I just shake my head. The girl was a saint. Just thinking of the stories the owner of BabysitEase, Peggy Murriner, hears from her baby sitters on […]
5 Things to Know About Your Heating/Air Needs
I chose Matt Birkley for my heating and cooling needs because he’s reliable, affordable and he doesn’t try and oversell services you don’t need. It’s supposed to be 80 degrees this weekend, so I’m sure most will turn on their AC units for the first time. I thought this would be a good time to […]
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, […]
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 […]

