Troops returning home

Members of 138th National Guard unit based in Carlisle, Ky. will be returning home on Sunday, May 4, 2008. Soldiers are scheduled to arrive at the convention center in Frankfort, Ky. by bus just prior to 2 p.m. A welcome home ceremony is scheduled for 2 p.m.

New FCHS principal announced

Jinny Hurdle, of Maysville, has been offered and accepted the position of Fleming County High School principal for the coming year. Ms. Hurdle will replace Mr. Brad Sorrell, who is retiring after 11 years in this position.

Ms. Hurdle is a native of Alabama and was educated in Alabama, Arkansas and an international boarding school in Wales. She graduated with honors from Vanderbilt University, completed her master’s degree at the University of Mississippi and has worked on her doctorate at Ole Miss.

Ms. Hurdle has served in Mississippi as a high school English teacher, high school assistant principal and a district level administrator. She has also been Coordinator of Testing and Instruction in the Holly Springs school district in Mississippi.

She comes to us from Riverside Publishing Division of Houghton Mifflin where she has worked with Riverside’s Edusoft Division, which provides benchmark testing software.

Ms. Hurdle is an avid sports fan and is excited and ready to wear black and gold this next year to cheer on the Panthers as well as get involved with the other student organizations at FCHS.

Pick up a copy

As some people may have noticed, we've moved newspaper racks around town. If you are looking for the latest printed edition of The Flemingsburg Gazette, it is available in the following locations for ONLY 50 CENTS A COPY.

Flemingsburg Food Mart

Dairy Queen

B&K

Stockyards

Somerset Oil

BP bypass

Shell

Arby’s

Marathon bypass

Dollar General

Ken’s

Save-a-lot

Gibson Grocery, Poplar Plains

Handi-Mart, Hillsboro

DA Watson

Crain Creek Grocery

Timmy’s Gas and Grocery

Goddard Country Store

Yoder’s

Fast Track Shell

Wayside, Wallingford

Hurst’s, Mt. Carmel

Foxport General Store

Citgo in Tollesboro

Wal-Mart in Maysville

Shamrock BP on 11

May’s Lick Market

Bluelick BP

Handi-Mart, Ewing

Services for Mrs. Ramey Friday, May 2

Beth Eula Basford Ramey, age 91, of Sunset Locust Road, Hillsboro passed away Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at the Fleming County Hospital in Flemingsburg.
She was born Feb. 20, 1917, in Hillsboro and was the daughter of the late James and Arizona Dickerson Basford.
Her husband, Estell Wade Ramey, passed away April 23, 1999. She was also preceded in death by three brothers, Howard, Lucian, and Clayton Basford; three sisters, Lillian Whitton, Edna Mae Reed, and Hazel Saunders; two sons, Estell Wade Ramey Jr., and Charles Kenneth (Charlie) Ramey; and one daughter, Dorothy Lee Ramey.
Mrs. Ramey is survived by two daughters, Lou Ellen Johnson and husband, Billy and Bertie Ann Cooper and husband, Charlie, all of Flemingsburg; one son, Lucian Eugene (Sam) Ramey of Hillsboro; one daughter-in-law, Susan Ramey of Elizaville; 14 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
Mrs. Ramey was a homemaker and member of the Hillsboro United Methodist Church.
Services will be conducted at 1 p.m., Friday, May 2, 2008, at the Hutton Funeral Home with the Rev. Billy Harmon and the Rev. Gail Skaggs officiating.

Burial will follow in the Hillsboro Cemetery. Grandchildren will serve as pallbearers.
Visitation is after 6 p.m., today, May 1, 2008, at the Hutton Funeral Home, Hillsboro.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations are suggested to the Hillsboro Christian Church; Hillsboro United Methodist Church; Pioneer Trace Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Flemingsburg; or Hospice of Hope Maysville.

Fox contests removal from Council

According to the Lexington Herald-Leader, Fleming County native Virginia G. Fox, the former head of Kentucky Educational Television and the education secretary for former Gov. Ernie Fletcher, has challenged her removal from the state Council on Postsecondary Education.

Gov. Steve Beshear, in an executive action, removed Fox from her council seat after her appointment was not approved by the state House of Representatives in the recently concluded legislative session.

Fox, in an April 29 letter to council chairman John Turner, said the Kentucky Constitution requires only that her appointment be approved by the state Senate.

Fox said the state law requiring approval by both the House and the Senate violates the state Constitution as well as the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

“I believe that I was confirmed, am still a member of the council and that no vacancy exists for my position,” Fox said in her letter.

It's history

A trackhoe tears down the back part of Harmon's Pool Room  Monday, April 28, 2008. The building was destroyed by fire in March. The building will go down in history, not only as a pool hall, but also as the first movie house in Flemingsburg. The city bought the property and plans a parking lot on the site.

Be sure to pick up the latest edition of the Flemingsburg Gazette, in news stands today. Included this week are photos of all of the Fleming County Little League teams.

Services for Mrs. Grimes

Mrs. Stephanie Rae Fizer Grimes, 40, of Flemingsburg, died April 23, 2008, at the Fleming County Hospital emergency room in Flemingsburg.
She was born May 26, 1967, in Fayette County, the daughter of Sam (Marita) Fizer of Flemingsburg and the late Sharon Kay Henderson Fizer.
Mrs. Grimes was a member of the Mount Carmel Christian Church and co-owner, secretary and office manager of Fizer Dairy Supplies, Tyler Electric and Four Star Storage.
In addition to her father, she is survived by her husband, Matt Grimes; a son, Tyler, at home; and her mother-in-law, Alma Grimes.
She was preceded in death by her father-in-law, Gerald Grimes.
Services are 1 p.m., Monday, April 28, 2008, at the Denton-Workman Funeral Home in Flemingsburg. Rev. Layne Wagner and Rev. Clint Stricklin will officiate.

Burial will follow in the Mount Carmel Cemetery.
Visitation is after 5 p.m., Sunday at the funeral home.
Donations may be made to a trust fund for Stephanie Grimes at Community Trust Bank, N. Main Cross, Flemingsburg, Ky. 41041 or the Fleming County Little League in Stephanie's memory at Box 28, Flemingsburg, Ky. 41041.