Nixle, the service our police department was employing to alert citizens of real time emergency and ongoing legal situations is coming to an end. Without previous notice, the service sent the department and invoice of $3,000. Obviously ridiculous, but not surprising. We recently experienced a similar situation with our email blast list. Nixle was a […]
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State of Kentucky News & Notes
I thought I would focus a post on a few interesting reads about some of the problems our fine state is facing. Kentucky grows more Urban – very in-depth review of demographics shaping the state. Among those discussed of interest to Fort Thomas and Northern Kentucky include – a shift toward urban areas (NKY featured in the discussion) and […]
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5 Things to Know For Small Business Collections
Fort Thomas has a lot of small business owners. I’m not talking necessarily about small mom and pop retail business owners but a lot of sole proprietors working out of their homes or with small operations with a few employees with offices around Northern Kentucky. Kevin Welsch, Owner and CSO of Cipher Recovery is a […]
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The School Funding Dilema
This week saw many more ballot initiatives related to school funding in the area go down to defeat. Some districts just can’t seem to get any new funding passed and now face the prospects of possible state take over. Meanwhile in Fort Thomas we keep chugging along, churning out Blue Ribbon awards, future college grads, […]
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Hey, “Chicken” People, Click Here
We’ve found the University of Kentucky, “Big Blue Nation” effect for website clicks: talk about backyard chickens. After our story entitled, “Chicken Story” became one of the most read stories on the site, which really didn’t shed any new or groundbreaking information and after the blog poll received more than double the amount of votes […]
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YMCA Volunteers of the Year from Fort Thomas
Ft. Thomas resident Denise Fenik was recently honored by the Campbell County YMCA as 2010 Volunteer of the Year for her passion toward the YMCA’s cause of strengthening the community. Over the past few years, Fenik has been volunteering her time as a Hip Hop dance instructor at the Campbell County YMCA, providing members with high tempo […]
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5 Things to Know About The Royal Wedding
Sorry for the tardiness, thought we had someone lined up for this week’s feature, but apparently not. I googled 5 Things to Know about the Royal Wedding, and this article came up. It’s pretty lazy, but then again, it’s Van Damme Friday, I worked a long week, just got done cutting the yard and I’m […]
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Fort Thomas News – Week of April 25th
Tons of news this week so lets get right to it: 1. Another Highlands football star commits to a local division I program. After Patrick Towles commitment to UK a few weeks ago we got word this weekend that Drake Bruns has committed to UC. Dale Mueller has compared Drake to Mike Mitchell who was […]
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Facebook FTM update
Here’s a summary of what’s been going on over the last week at the Fort Thomas Matters Facebook page. If you haven’t yet joined, and are curious, check it out. We post “snapshot stories” that sometimes don’t have enough content to dedicate an entire post on the blog format. It’s also a great way to […]
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Fort Thomas Resident Published in NY Post
How does SNL and business go together? A Fort Thomas resident and Fort Thomas Matters reader found a connection and parlayed that connection into a featured story in the New York Post today. Chris Tomlin, who has also written for Kentucky Sports Radio.com (a University of Kentucky fan site) wrote about the improv comedy troupe in […]
