Increased Hunting Hours Still Yield Higher Amount of Vehicle Crashes Photo credit: Heather Hall Fort Thomas began crafting ordinances to deal with the increasing deer population in 2007. Since then council members have come and gone, revisions and nuances of the ordinance have been enacted and countless hours of debate have occurred. Most recently in […]
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Fort Thomas City Council Notes (5-5-14)
FTM file A sparsely attended City Council meeting from the residents and council members saw a VA homes update, the 2013 deer report, taxes and fees that could affect residents and businesses among others items. Here’s the rundown: – Roger Peterman and Eric Haas were absent. VA Homes Fort Thomas received verbal approval for their […]
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Fort Thomas’ Deer Legislation Ordinance Models for Fort Mitchell
The Enquirer ran an article today which detailed one Fort Mitchell City Councilman’s desire to enact a deer hunting related ordinance similar to the one Fort Thomas has in place. Below is the article from the Enquirer. As residents who have lived with this ordinance over the last few years, what would you tell the […]
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Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Resigns, Could Open Up More Deer Control Alternatives Discussion
Well, that was quick. Today we published a story detailing the decision by Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jonathan Gassett to not allow Fort Thomas to pursue other alternatives to controlling the deer population (darting with contraception, etc) without first looking at full scale hunting options. Gassett was the commissioner of the department since 2005. […]
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Maps of Eligible Deer Hunting Plots in Fort Thomas
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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Vision Air Research Will Continue Deer Census in Fort Thomas
By G. MICHAEL GRAHAM Fort Thomas Matters Reporter Vision Air Research has done the deer census in Fort Thomas since 2010 and will continue to do so. Fort Thomas City Administrator Don Martin said the city likes Vision Air’s work. Vision Air Research is based in Boise, Idaho. President and founder Susan Bernatas has more […]
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City Council Meeting Notes 3-17-13 (VA Homes Timetable, FTPD Annual Report)
By Pat Lafleur Fort Thomas Matters, City Beat Writer Mayor Mary Brown put in her closing remarks, this was a busy meeting. One might consider it, however, more of a busy-work meeting. Much of it was rather procedural, including re-readings of ordinance amendments and role-call votes on a number of expenditure-related issues. But here are […]
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Early Weak-Links (Miss Kentucky, Deer, 471 Traffic, Brighton Fright Night)
– Apparently I was the weak link (see what I did there?) in the last episode of Mark vs. Food at Quaker Steak and Lube in Florence, KY last Friday. FOX19s Frank Marzullo, who had been in New York City hobnobbing with the likes of Rachel Ray during the week, came down with a stomach […]
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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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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 […]
