Fort Thomas city council member Jeff Bezold, chair of the Recreation Committee, gave a report from his committee at the March council meeting. He outlined several projects under discussion, but a proposed splash pad in Highland Park drew the most interest and some controversy. The city has been discussing a splash park that could be […]
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Coffman’s Realty Helps with Highland Hills Park Baseball Field Fundraising Efforts for Renovation
Coffman’s Realty makes lasting impression on Highland Park to help with baseball field improvements. (Img: Provided) John Coffman Jr. and his two sisters are no strangers to Highland Hills Park. In fact, it used to be their playground. As kids, they used play at the park with other neighboring kids from Highland Ave, Trinity and […]
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Duke Energy Volunteers Help Highland Park Trails Come “Alive”
Fort Thomas Firefighter, Chris Rust, carves a wood sculpture from his chainsaw on the Highland Park Trails. Duke Energy and some Fort Thomas resident volunteers took to Highland Park on Friday, June 7 to clean up the trail system. Resident Jeff Mohr, with Duke Energy, organized the day in which 30 Duke energy employees turned […]
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Fort Thomas Investor Group Raising Funds to Install Turf at Highland Park
By Joe Grimme As a baseball player for the Highlands Bluebirds in 1991, I was fortunate to be the starting pitcher at our first home game played there, and I now enjoy watching my son, who is currently a senior at Highlands, also pitch for the Bluebirds at the very same field. Twenty-eight (28) years […]
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Baseball Field Improvements Coming to Highland Park Through City Partnership
The Highland Hills Park Baseball field could get a big makeover with a partnership between the city of Fort Thomas and Highlands. FTM file. The City of Fort Thomas and Fort Thomas Independent Schools are working on an agreement that will upgrade its baseball facility, which is currently owned by the city. The project will […]
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City Council Meeting Notes 3-17-13 (VA Homes Timetable, FTPD Annual Report)
By Pat Lafleur Fort Thomas Matters, City Beat Writer Mayor Mary Brown put in her closing remarks, this was a busy meeting. One might consider it, however, more of a busy-work meeting. Much of it was rather procedural, including re-readings of ordinance amendments and role-call votes on a number of expenditure-related issues. But here are […]
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2011 General Services Annual Report: Park Review Part II
Highland Park Tower Park always has been and continues to be a park of special significance. Not only does it have historic merit, being a frontier and Civil War fort, it continues to be an active military base and even more active playground for children through adult. I grew up playing at that park; the […]
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2011 General Services Department Annual Report
Recently, the 2011 General Services Department Annual Report was compiled to summarize the projects performed by this important but often unnoticed department of the city. While this was no Fifty Shades of Grey, it was still a very interesting read. As the report contains a wealth of information, it will be discussed in two separate […]
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Fort Thomas News to Start Your Week
Lets start with a picture that I captured this past week and that was replicated many times over across Facebook and Twitter around Fort Thomas on Thursday. The presence of a magnificent double rainbow: 1. Fort Thomas Police issued a break-in warning last week. They indicated there had been 15 break-ins (no time frame was […]
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Fort Thomas News – Mid-week Update
A few big stories in Fort Thomas: 1. Cheryl McCafferty was back in the news in a big way today filing a motion for a retrial. In the motion, her attorney throws her previous legal team, the judge, and Commonwealth’s Attorney under the bus. It should be interesting to see if this gets traction over […]