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Today's News

  • Attorneys join law firm with history

    The 100-year-old law firm of Swinford and Sims will be continuing under the same moniker with three new attorneys.

    Frank Benton IV, Frank Benton V and Elaine Griffith have stepped in to take over the operation that was recently vacated by Doug Miller.

    When Miller was appointed Commonwealth Attorney to fill the unexpired term of the late Doug Wright, Miller had to break ties with any private law practice.

    “It’s quite an honor,” said the elder Benton of stepping into an existing practice with the history of Swinford and Sims.

     

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  • School Menus

    March 1-5

    * Menus subject to change due to weather and delivery.

    BREAKFAST

    ST. EDWARD SCHOOL

    MONDAY: Cereal, donuts, juice choices, choice of milk.

    TUESDAY: French toast with syrup, bacon, juice choices, choice of milk.

    WEDNESDAY: Cereal, muffins, juice choices, choice of milk.

    THURSDAY: Pancakes with syrup, bacon, juice choices, choice of milk.

    FRIDAY: Cereal, toast, juice choices, choice of milk.

    ALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

    MONDAY: Breakfast pizza or cereal, toast and jelly, fruit or juice, variety of milk.

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  • Fillies run afoul in Powell County 82-78 in overtime

    In a game where the home team shot 54 free throws, the Harrison County Fillies dropped an overtime thriller to Powell County, 82-78, Thursday night. 

    The game featured an outstanding scoring performance by Fillies senior Kaitlin Johnson as she scored 29 points in the losing effort. 

    Harrison County jumped out to an early four-point lead and stretched it to five at one point before Powell County came back to tie the score at the end of the first quarter at 16.

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  • Early April treatment for emerald ash borer

    The emerald ash borer was first identified in southeast Michigan in the summer of 2002. By 2009, it hit really close to home. The first two confirmed Kentucky sightings where in Jessamine and Shelby counties. 

    In Indiana, the heaviest concentration of infestation is in the northeastern part of the state; the rest of the state is considered intermittently infested. 

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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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  • Church Briefs

    ANTIOCH MILLS CHRISTIAN CHURCH

    On Saturday, Feb. 27, Antioch Mills Christian Church is sponsoring a Comedy and Euchre Night.  The evening will start at 6 p.m. with the showing of Thou Shalt Laugh I in the worship center.

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  • Licking Valley Campus is on the move

    Maysville Community and Technical College has been creating opportunities and fueling the dreams of many in Cynthiana for 20 years. During that 20-year span, there have been numerous milestones for the college. The first extension of the college was opened in 1989 in a rented space. In 2002, a new building was built to accommodate the expanding number of students. In 2007, enrollment topped 3,500 for the college. In the fall term of 2009 MCTC added to their facilities by opening another extension in Cynthiana for the Health Science students.

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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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