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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Running out of time to prune spring...

    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.

  • Way Back When

    10 years ago . . .

  • Birth - Haven Alexis Harlow-...

    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.

  • Birth - Resa Ann Heimlich

    Resa Ann Heimlich

    Resa Ann Heimlich was born to Nathan and Mary Furnish Heimlich of Cynthiana on May 2, 2008 at Georgetown Community Hospital in Georgetown, Ky. She weighed 9 lbs. 6 oz. and is welcomed by her brother Calvin.

    Maternal grandparents are James W. and Teresa Furnish of Cynthiana; maternal great-grandparents are Ann Wells and the late Don Wells, and Nancy Furnish and the late Wilson Furnish.

  • Way Back When

    10 years ago . . .

    Births announced this week are: Madison Elizabeth Case, May 15, daughter of Tommy and Melissa (Kasey) Case; Kathryn Pierce Tibbens, April 13, daughter of Rex and Amy Tibbens.

    Herby Allen Moore paints a mural on the dining area wall at Ken's NewMarket. The subject is Harrison County's courthouse square.

    Harrison Memorial Hospital offers new program to citizens diagnosed with chronic pulmonary disease. The New Hope Pulmonary Rehabilitation Unit is now ready to help patients undergo breathing, exercise therapy.

  • Museum Musings

    * Log Cabin, Dec. 28, 1945 -- Marvin Ross, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ross of Cynthiana, last week returned home after graduating from the Repper Auction School, Decatur, Ind. Attending the school were embryo auctioneers from all over North America, who studied under 17 professional yet, practical instructors. Ross was fortunate enough to measure up to the high standards and consequently was not shipped home, as were some of the students. An ad in todays issue announces the service he provides.

  • Wreath-laying Ceremony

    Wreath-laying Ceremony. In observance of Memorial Day, the Citizens Committee for the Commemoration of Veterans Day and Memorial Day for Cynthiana and Harrison County, Ky., will be conducting a wreath-laying ceremony at the old courthouse in downtown Cynthiana at 11 a.m. on Monday, May 26. This years speaker is Heather Phelps, wife of Staff Sergeant James Phelps. Phelps is serving with the 201st Engineer Company from the Cynthiana-Harrison County Kentucky Army National Guard Armory and is deployed to Afghanistan in support of the Global War on Terrorism.

  • Church Briefs

    ANTIOCH MILLS CHRISTIAN

    The final meal for The Well on Wednesday nights will take place at the new Camp South on Broadford Road on Wednesday, May 28. The meals will be discontinued through June, July and August. The following ABF groups will be meeting at 7 p.m. each Wednesday through the summer: Parables Study in the Sanctuary beginning June 4; Proverbs 31 Woman in the Annex Room 302 beginning June 4; The Big Ten...A study on the Ten Commandments in Annex Room 301 beginning June 11.

  • School Menus

    May 26-30

    * Menus subject to change due to weather and delivery.

    BREAKFAST

    ST. EDWARD SCHOOL

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

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

    WEDNESDAY: Sausage, biscuits, jelly, juice choices, choice of milk.

    THURSDAY: Cereal, toast, jelly, juice choices, choice of milk.

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

    ALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

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

  • Birth - Alexis Michelle England

    Alexis Michelle England

    Alexis Michelle England was born to Jason and Lyn England on Feb. 14, 2008 at the University of Kentucky Hospital. She weighed 4 lbs. 15 oz.

    Maternal grandparents are Mary Lou and Kevin Clark of Mays Lick; maternal great-grandparents are Louise P. Hughes of Mount Olivet and the late William B. Hughes.

    Paternal grandparents are Deborah and Matthew Hampton of Germantown, Ohio, and the late Michael England.

  • Museum Musings

    * Log Cabin, July 4, 1903 - Mrs. Clarence LeBus has been entertaining a house party of very attractive young ladies this week, her guests being Mollie Duffy, Anna Gossett, Virginia and Bessie Hunt. Mrs. LeBus entertained eight couples Wednesday night. Mrs. F. G. Sparks entertained the party at flinch Wednesday as did Mrs. D. C. Patterson on Thursday morning.

  • Community Calendar

    THURSDAY, May 22

    Introduction to Quilting. Thursday, May 22 with Heather Ladick from 6-8 p.m. in the community room at the Cynthiana-Harrison County Public Library.

    FRIDAY, May 23

    Story Hour: Friday, May 23 for age 2-5 from 2-2:30 p.m. in the community room at the Cynthiana-Harrison County Public Library.

    Democratic Woman's Club of Harrison County will meet Friday, May 23 at noon at Cynthiana Country Club. Guest speaker will be Judge-Executive Alex Barnett will be the guest speaker. Everyone welcome.

    SATURDAY, May 24

  • Birth - Madison Bella Hunt

    Madison Bella Hunt

    Madison Bella Hunt was born to Eric and Amber Hunt on March 4, 2008 at Georgetown Community Hospital. She weighed 6 lbs. 6 oz., and is welcomed by her sister, Taylor Renae.

    Maternal grandparents are Joe and Marian Anderson, great-grandparents Joe and Gladys Fitzgerald, all of Cynthiana.

    Paternal grandparents are Larry and Juanita Hunt, great-grandparents are Elsie Hunt and the late Clay Hunt, all of Carlisle.

  • Cool, wet spring may challenge some...

    According to our weather forecasters it looks like we are locked into a cool, wet weather pattern for a couple of weeks. This is good news for some and bad for others. It is certainly hard to get ornamental and vegetable plants in when it rains all the time. Excessive rain and cool temperatures can slow things down a bit, in more ways then one.