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  • Snow emergency declared for Harrison County

    With yet another snow front moving into the Bluegrass area Sunday night and early Monday morning, Harrison County appears to be hosting its own set of winter games.Harrison County Judge-Executive  Alex Barnett declared a snow emergency for all of Harrison County."We're asking that all unnecessary travel be suspended," Barnett said Monday morning.

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  • Community garden program offered

    It might be hard to imagine now, but Cynthiana will soon be a community in bloom.

    Beginning this year, the Harrison County Board of Education and their agricultural education program will offer a community garden to those citizens that do not have the land, space or knowledge to raise a vegetable garden.

    A meeting for those interested will be held next Wednesday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. at the Extension Office on New Lair Road.

    Dates and information will be distributed at the meeting, along with applications for garden plots.

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  • Cynthiana woman taken to Lexington after Friday wreck

    A 20-year old Harrison County woman is in fair condition after a Friday morning wreck on Ky. Hwy. 36 West near the Carl Stevens Road entrance.

    Allycia Perry was traveling eastbound toward Cynthiana around 7 a.m. when she slid off the road, traveled down an embankment, hit a ditch and traveled back up the embankment.

    Sheriff’s Deputy Nathan Olin said road conditions may have been a factor in the one-car collision.

    For more on this story, see this week's Cynthiana Democrat.

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  • Scholarships attract students to workforce

    As the demand for health care workers continues to increase across the nation, Harrison Memorial Hospital is hoping to attract more individuals into the classroom and later, the HMH workforce.

    “I always knew I wanted to be here locally,” Anastasia Rains said Thursday morning, in between patients at the HMH radiology department.

    A 2000 graduate of Harrison County High School, Rains graduated from Lexington Community College with an  arts and science degree and a radiology science degree.

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  • Two charged in Robinson Church burglary

    Two Harrison County individuals were arrested last Thursday morning after they allegedly broke into Robinson Christian Church.

    Laura Bailey, 18, and Kevin Northcutt, 20, allegedly entered the church through a basement window, according to authorities.

    A church member stopped by the church on his way home from work and called police around 3:45 a.m. when he noticed an unfamiliar vehicle in the parking lot.

    “They told me they had broken in with the intent of stealing money from the offering collection,” Sheriff’s deputy Robert Peak said.

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  • Family opens Shylo Blue Roadhouse

    Bobby and Carla Cannon have always loved steakhouses.

    “We had thought many years about having our own restaurant,” Carla said last Thursday morning.

    The Cannons opened the doors to their new steakhouse, Shylo Blue, last Tuesday.

    “We’ve come a long, long way,” Carla said, looking out past the many kitchen tables and chairs that fill the room.

    Formerly Adrenalyne bar, Carla said their family began gutting the Walnut Street building in September.

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  • MCTC/LVC students and staff travel to Frankfort

    Dawnrisha Talbott, 20, transferred to Maysville Community and Technical College/Licking Valley Campus last August.

    “I wanted to be closer to home and I still wanted to get a degree,” Talbott said.

    A 2008 Harrison County High School graduate, Talbott is currently majoring in elementary education.

    She wants to teach second grade.

    “Hopefully I can be a teacher in the Harrison County school district,” Talbott said.

    Her experience at her hometown community college, she said, has been wonderful.

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  • Something to cheer about

    Harrison County High School's cheerleaders clained the 10TH Region Medium Division title Sunday on the Hilltop. They will advance to the state competition.“Our routine was by far the most difficult in our class, said Coach DeDe Shirley.  Only GRC (George Rogers Clark) did a more difficult routine.

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  • Webb returns to court tomorrow

    Bass Webb, the man accused of murdering Bryia Runiewicz in July, will be back in court tomorrow.

    Results from an evaluation at the Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center in LaGrange will be presented.

    For more on this story, see this week’s Cynthiana Democrat, which will be available on newsstands Wednesday afternoon.

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  • Olin added to Harrison County Sheriff’s staff

    Nathan Olin, 36, said he is happy with his new job as a deputy at the Harrison County Sheriff’s Department.

    “I was ready to try something different in the field of law enforcement,” Olin said.

    A 1992 Harrison County High School graduate, Olin’s law enforcement career first started in September 1998 when he began as a vehicle enforcement officer for the state of Kentucky, patrolling Harrison County and other neighboring counties.

    But now, he’s staying home.

    For more about Olin, see this week's Cynthiana Democrat.

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