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Today's News

  • Superintendent, assistant are top paid school staffers

    There were five fewer people on Harrison County School District’s payroll in 2010 than in 2009.

    According to Julie Asher, district financial officer, 673 people were paid during the fiscal year that just ended.

    Kentucky law requires school districts to provide a complete listing of school salaries to the newspaper in August. The decision to print that list is left to each newspaper. The Cynthiana Democrat has for several years published school salaries as well as Cynthiana and Harrison County salaries.

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  • Thorobred Classic band competition is Sept. 25

    The Marching Thorobreds performed at the Montgomery County Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 18, finishing in second place in the 4A classification and earning a proficient rating. 

    This rating qualifies the band for the regional quarterfinals of the Kentucky Music Educators Association State Marching Band Championship Series.

    The Color Guard not only won the Best Color Guard award for class 4A, but it also received the highest preliminary score of all competitors. 

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  • Shooting victim to be released from hospital

    The Georgetown woman accused of shooting her ex-husband’s girlfriend on Friday afternoon is in jail.

    Police charged Sandy Southwood with multiple charges, including attempted murder after she allegedly shot Amber Florence.

    Florence was at the home she shares with fiance Charles Arnold on Confederate Drive when Southwood showed up shortly after 4 p.m. Friday and allegedly began firing off several shots from a 9mm handgun.

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  • Driver being deported after crash

    Deportation procedures are underway after one Harrison County man is arrested following a Saturday night wreck.

    Alberto Lopez, 23, was traveling northbound in a 1997 Ford Contour on US 27 around 11:20 p.m., when the vehicle crossed the center line of the highway, striking a 2008 Ford Focus, driven by Kyle Caldwell, 18.

    “He was struck head-on,” Deputy Robert Peak said.

    Caldwell, who had been traveling southbound on US 27, suffered from a leg injury and was transported to Harrison Memorial Hospital by Browns EMS. He was released later that night.

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  • Police six of city’s top 10

    At a salary of $57,706.22 for fiscal year 2009-10, Gary Royalty, public works/utilities director, is the highest paid City of Cynthiana employee.

    Cynthiana salaries were released last week through an open records request. County government salaries appeared in last week’s Cynthiana Democrat and the Harrison County school district salaries were published Aug. 19.

    Totals for each of the employees reflect what they will pay taxes on, which includes any overtime and incentive stipends they may have earned.

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  • School board refinances bonds

    The Harrison County School Board is taking advantage of low interest rates.

    “Interest rates are real low right now,” Joe Nance, bond specialist for Ross, Sinclair & Associates, told the school board at its Tuesday evening meeting.

    The refunding of school revenue bonds, at a new interest rate of 1.15 to 3.25 percent, would save the school district $6,400 per year for 11 years, Nance said.

    The savings would total $70,405.

    The previous interest rate for the set of bonds issued in 2001 was 4.7 to 5 percent.

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  • Pilot makes emergency landing at Cynthiana airport

    The Cynthiana-Harrison County Airport was the answer to Stuart Marsden’s prayers last Wednesday evening.

    In need of a runway for an emergency landing, Marsden, 35, found the perfect spot in Cynthiana.

    According to Ptl. Brian Hassall’s Cynthiana Police report, Marsden was piloting a 2003 Cirrus SR-22 airplane from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Atlanta, Ga., when an oil line blew, spraying and covering the front windshield of the plane.

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  • A Special Night on Church

    Hospice of the Bluegrass’ annual ‘Church on Church’ fundraising event will be held Saturday, Sept. 25, from 7 p.m. to midnight.

    But some things will be different this year.

    While the event will continue to be held at the LeBus storage warehouse on Church Street, the other “church” will change.

    Due to a scheduling conflict, the Jimmy Church Band will not provide the tunes at this year’s event, coordinator Kelly Kendall said Friday.

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  • Funeral this week for woman hit by vehicle at Walmart

    Funeral services will be held Tuesday for the Cynthiana woman who died of injuries she suffered after being struck by an SUV in front of Walmart on Friday.

    Sylvia Fight, 74, died about 6 p.m. Friday night, according to Sgt. Wilbur Gross of the Cynthiana Police Department.

    Fight was exiting Walmart about 10 a.m. Friday when she was struck by a Chevrolet Trailblazer, driven by Lauren Watts, 24.

    She was taken to Harrison Memorial Hospital and airlifted to the University of Kentucky Medical Center where she died of her injuries.

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  • County’s unemployment down fourth month in a row

    For the fourth month in a row, Harrison County’s unemployment rate dropped.

    In January, 12.2 percent of Harrison County’s labor force was unemployed. Over the last six months that number has steadily dropped to 10.4 percent.

    According to figures released this week by the Kentucky Labor Cabinet, Harrison County was one of eight counties in the 17-county Bluegrass Area Development District to show a drop in unemployment between May and June.

    Statewide, the unemployment figure remained the same during the one-month period at 10.1 percent.

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