In the deluge of comments between our Facebook, Twitter and on our main site here, I noticed a great idea: mthurnauer said… One thing that I would like to see would be if a map could be generated that shows the areas where bow hunting is permitted. I like to let my kids roam the woods […]
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City Council Round-Up: Expanding Bow Hunting Ordinance, Burglary Trends, and “One Top Notch Police Force”
Fort Thomas City Council met last night for the first time since early August last night, returning now to their normal, biweekly schedule. Here’s your rundown of the minutes of the meeting: Firefighter Kyle Kaufman FTFD Chief Mark Bailey badges Ft. Thomas’s newest firefighter/paramedic, Kyle Kaufman. FTFD Chief Mark Bailey kicked off this week’s meeting […]
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Campbell Co. 4th in Kentucky Deer Strikes
The deer issue hasn’t been brought up in a while, so my interest was piqued when I saw the above chart put out by the Kentucky State Patrol. In it, it shows that Campbell County ranks fourth among all Kentucky counties in amount of incidents with deer caused vehicle collisions. The rolling undeveloped hills of […]
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City Council Notes 1/18/11
Aside from Big Bird, Elmo and the Cookie Monster districts that came from the city council meeting on the Tuesday following MLK Day, there were some other points of interest that came from the meeting. Here’s a quick run down: 1) Letters of interest are due to the city by this Friday to purchase the […]
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Deer Hunt to End?
After not seeing many stories published at all from The Community Recorder over the past few weeks, I checked out my bookmark on The Fort Thomas Community Page on Cincinnati.com and saw a myriad of stories. Turns out the paper and its reporters are being furloughed, so they had to turn out double the amount […]
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Fort Thomas Political Update
Fresh off some big national headlines related to politics that includes the passage of a giant health care bill and the talk of mid-term elections perhaps it is time to start talking about some local politics and prepare for a plethora of yard signs like the ones above from a previous Virginia state race. There […]
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Another Area Deer Hunt
There was an article on Cincinnati.com today about the town of Mariemont becoming the latest Cincinnati area community to sponsor a deer hunt. In addition to the details of the hunt the article presented a pretty good synopsis of all area deer hunts. Here are some observations: 1. Other areas with proposed / past / […]
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Deer Hunting Update
At the council meeting on Monday a report was issued by Don Martin reviewing the recent deer hunt (article overview in the Enquirer). The report is published on the Fort Thomas city website but to save you some time I have provided some highlights below (with a little commentary). Some notes: 1. In 2006 there […]
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Candidates For City Council
As has been widely reported in the area media (Cincinnati Enquirer, Pat Crowley Blog) there was a large amount of interest in the local council races. The community recorder plans to have a brief summary of each of the candidates in their upcoming issue. Many of you will see that I have also thrown my […]
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Big Crowd Tonight at Council
A large crowd showed up tonight at the City Council meeting. I would estimate the crowd to be about 100. After listening to about 40 minutes of commentary it was clear that about 90% of the crowd was against the current ordinance allowing deer hunting in the city. Of the 10% that were not there […]