There’s no sidestepping it—Kentucky was a slave state. And Northern Kentucky was no exception; the institution of human property was active locally in the Antebellum period, and yet the region’s proximity to the Ohio River, which separated slave states from non-slave states, made it an important stop on the Underground Railroad. Let’s explore some of […]
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Boone County library to host suicide prevention training
The Boone County Public Library will host a suicide prevention training at its Walton location in May. The training will be hosted by Larry McNabb, a vocational rehabilitation counselor who will instruct attendees in the QPR (Question, Persuade and Refer) process of suicide prevention, according to the library’s website. Attendees will learn how to spot […]
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Everyday People Band performs Motown hits at Boone Woods Park
The Everyday People Band performed Arthea Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Kool and The Gang and other Motown classics at Boone Woods Park on Aug. 3. The event was sponsored by the Boone County Library and the Park system. Click through to see photos by Charles Bolton from the event.
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Boone County Public Library offering teen writing contest
The Boone County Public Library is offering teens an opportunity to participate in a short story contest in celebration of November being designated National Novel Writing Month. Entrants must be a current student between grades six and 12. Work that has been previously published or submitted elsewhere is permitted. The short story must be 1,000 […]
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New Walton library taking shape
Construction of the Boone County Library’s Walton branch is progressing on schedule, officials said. “They started pouring the first layer of the parking lot today,” Boone County Library Director Carrie Herrmann said during Monday’s Boone County Library Board of Trustees meeting. “And we are refining plans for preparing the collection to move over to the […]
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Boone County Library virtually hosting shark fossil discoveries event
The Boone County Public Library’s Virtual Branch is hosting a National Park Service presentation examining the discovery of shark fossils at Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park. The Sharks of Mammoth Cave explores the discovery of shark fossils 700 miles from the nearest ocean. According to researchers, the fossils are 350 million years old and are […]