Mayor Eric Haas at the March city council meeting with Woodfill students dressed up like Johnny Depp, Cris Collinsworth and Sen. Wil Schroder. FTM file. Fourth grade students from Woodfill Elementary awarded a check for $500 to the city’s General George Henry Thomas statue fund. The statue, proposed during plans for the city’s Sesquicentennial celebration, […]
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Johnson Elementary Students Donate Wax Museum Proceeds
Johnson 4th-graders present a check in the amount of $536.85 to Make-A-Wish Foundation representative Rebecca Dykstra. A Fort Thomas elementary school is doing their part to helping build the city’s namesake statue and giving back to a charity that helps terminally ill children. Johnson Elementary 4th-grade students raised $1,073.70 with their annual Kentucky history […]
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Fort Thomas Planning “First-Class” 150 Celebration in 2017
A painting of General George H. Thomas, the namesake for Fort Thomas, hangs in the Fort Thomas Museum. FTM file. By Jennifer Kohl In 1967, Fort Thomas celebrated its’ Centennial. A week-long celebration took place commemorating the 100 year anniversary of when the city was incorporated by the Commonwealth of Kentucky on February 27, 1867. […]