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Snowflakes shimmering along the downtown streets can mean only one thing -- it’s Christmas time, and Christmas time brings the annual holiday parade.

It’s tradition.

Anxious children and adults will line the streets of the parade’s path. There will be horses and carriages, floats and Scouts, antique cars and the marching band.

It’s tradition.

Watch for the tractors and the miniature horses. Surely there will be elves and one will certainly be the most jolliest of all -- Santa.

The Fab Four are back.  Yes, Eight Days a Week, a Beatles Tribute Band from Cincinnati returns to Cynthiana this Saturday, Dec 6, at 7 p.m., with their fabulous reenactment of Beatles music.

Eight Days played the Rohs Opera House last December to over 200 attendees. This year looks to be even bigger with ticket sales beginning over a month ago.

“They’re incredible,” Roger Slade of Rohs Opera House said. “They look like the Beatles, play like the Beatles, sound like the Beatles…”

It appears the Main Street viaduct project has been pushed back.

Cynthiana Mayor Jim Brown announced at Tuesday’s commission meeting that the state planned October bid letting has been delayed and will be February or March.

“More likely March,” Brown told commissioners. “This is out of our hands.

Brown said the bridge over the CSX railroad on the north side of Cynthiana is “very unsafe.” He said truck traffic has been detoured around Church Street to eliminate some of the stresses on the reduced weight limit bridge.

Nearly every year on Thanksgiving night, the evening news does a segment on feeding the homeless from shelters or soup kitchens.

In Harrison County, there is no homeless shelter, but there are people who are homeless or who live in sub-standard housing. They are hungry. Their children are hungry. There are also those residents who may not be homeless, but they have no one with whom to share the holiday. There are also the many individuals who will be working on Thanksgiving with no opportunity for a traditional harvest meal.