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Today's Features

  • Academic Briefs

    HERRINGTON

    A local resident received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Transylvania University on Saturday, May 24, during a commencement ceremony on the front steps of historic Old Morrison.

    Nicholas County High School graduate, Melody Dawn Herrington, earned a degree in economics and a communications minor. Herrington is the daughter of Billy and Linda Herrington of Cynthiana.

    LEITH

    Julianna Leith, of Cynthiana, has accepted Maryville Colleges Highlander Scholarship and plans to enroll at the private Liberal arts college this fall as a member of the Class of 2012.

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  • Community Calendar

    SATURDAY, July 19

    Yard Sale / Pancake Breakfast. Saturday, July 19 beginning at 8 a.m. Rain or shine, Main Street, Berry, Ky. Proceeds to benefit the Berry Lions Club.

    MONDAY, July 21

    HCHS Council. The Harrison County High School Site Based Decision Making Council will meet July 21 at 4:30 p.m. in room 106. All meetings are open to the public.

    Planning Commission of Cynthiana, Harrison County, Berry will meet Monday, July 21, 7:30 p.m., at the sheriffs office for a training session (no items on the agenda). The meetings are open to the public.

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  • Academic Brief

    WIGGINS

    Courtney Wiggins, a freshman at Harrison County High School, has achieved a great triumph. Courtney took the 73rd Grand Concours or National French Exam this year.

    With over 100,000 French students in the 50 states competing in the 2008 event, Courtney scored 21st in the nation.

    This was her first year in Tonya Wagoners French class at Harrison County High School.

    Courtney is the daughter of Marty and Patty Wiggins and the granddaughter of Charles and Peggy Carson and John T. and Sherry Wiggins.

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  • Way Back When

    10 years ago . . .

    Births announced this week are: Mason Lee Cain, June 16, son of Paul and Kim Cain; Wesley Thomas Kenney, June 12, son of Talina Kenney; Michael Matthew Leahy, June 15. son of Michael and Mary Jo Leahy.

    Dr. Henry Norfleet joins the staff of Dr. Gregory Cooper to form Family Care Associates. A year earlier, Dr. LeRoy Gallenstein and nurse practitioner Johnnie Schuller joined Coopers staff. The Family Care Associates office is located in the Professional Arts Building at Harrison Memorial Hospital.

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  • Museum Musings

    * Cynthiana Democrat, May 1876 -- Harrison Hotel, Main Street Opp. Courthouse, Cynthiana. Henry C. Nebel, proprietor. The attention of the public is invited to this house, which is furnished in excellent style and the table supplied with the best the market affords. A bar is kept in connection with this hotel, where pure liquors and choice cigars are kept on sale. During the oyster season fresh oysters are served up in the best style. Thankful to the public for past patronage, a continuance of the same is respectfully solicited.

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  • Birth - Kaylee Nicole Dargavell

    Kaylee Nicole Dargavell

    Kaylee Nicole Dargavell was born to Bradley and Brittany Dargavell on May 1, 2008, at St. Joseph East in Lexington, Ky. She weighed 7 lbs. 10 oz.

    Maternal grandparents are Scottie and Sandy Ritchie of Cynthiana; maternal great-grandparents are Catherine Ritchie of Cynthiana and the late Robert Ritchie, and the late Leo and Nellie Williams.

    Paternal grandparents are Brian Dargavell of Mt. Olivet and Wanda Welte of Cynthiana; paternal great-grandparents are Barbara Dargavell of Mt. Olivet and the late Walter Dargavell and the late Rose Horn.

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  • Museum Musings

    *Cynthiana Democrat, Dec. 27, 1917 - Aunt Liz Smith passed quietly away, Thursday afternoon, Dec. 20 about one oclock, while sitting in a chair before the fire at her home on Church Street in this city. Had she lived until Jan. 7, she would have been 92 years old. Elizabeth Remington Smith was a daughter of the late Greenup and Sallie Hamilton Remington, of this city, and was born Jan. 7, 1826. She was one of a family of nine children, all of whom are now dead, except one sister, Carolyn Taylor of Kansas City, Mo.

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  • Running out of time to prune spring bloomers

    Do you have any unruly spring flowering shrubs? Well, now is your opportunity to get them cleaned up, in fact we are about to run out of time if we want to hold on to next years buds.

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  • Way Back When

    10 years ago . . .

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  • Birth - Haven Alexis Harlow-Gripshover

    Haven Alexis Harlow-Gripshover

    Haven Alexis Harlow-Gripshover was born to Teryna and Tommy Gripshover of Cynthiana on April 14, 2008 at Harrison Memorial Hospital. She weighed 6 lbs. 2 oz.

    Maternal grandparents are Terri Wells of Mt. Home, Ark. and Donald Harlow of Florence, Ind.; maternal great-grandparents are Marian Harlow and the late Dorthy Harlow, Gilbert and Sharon Wells and the late Nelson and Clara May Wells.

    Paternal grandparents are Tom and Lavern Gripshover of Hebron, Ky.

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