In 2025, my reporting put me face-to-face with sharks and stingrays, crawling through a firefighter training course, sitting in a living room filled with a century of memories and digging into local schools. Every year, LINK nky reporters round up our top five stories from the year. I chose a collection of stories that I […]
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Tony Watts permanently barred from renewing superintendent certification
A second Northern Kentucky superintendent has been permanently barred from renewing their certification to be a superintendent in Kentucky schools, according to a decision from the Education Professional Standards Board. On May 2, the board received notice that then-Newport Superintendent, Tony Watts, failed to report mandatory information about a Newport educator as required by law. […]
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Inflatable Wars: 50 Fort Mitchell streets join holiday showdown
One Fort Mitchell street lined up a battalion of blow-up Santas, now over 50 Fort Mitchell streets are locked in a playful turf war of towering Nutcrackers and supersized Grinches, as the city’s “Inflatable Wars” kick off. Beechwood Road was the trend setter for this idea. The street’s residents all displayed blow-up Santas on their […]
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Beechwood Superintendent Mike Stacy announces retirement
Beechwood Superintendent Mike Stacy has announced his retirement, effective at the end of this academic year. Although Stacy still has two years left on his contract as Beechwood superintendent, “I believe there is great value in stepping away at a time when our district is thriving, leaving on a high note, with gratitude for all […]
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Beechwood School District builds new facilities for career and future planning
Beechwood Independent Public School District is in the process of constructing new facilities that will provide more career and future planning options for their students, including lab and learning spaces for medical trades, media, an entrepreneurship lab, environmental science and agricultural labs, as well as virtual reality equipment.