Let’s set aside the PR posts, the emotional buffering, the polished paragraphs that sound more like a ChatGPT draft than a real person under public scrutiny. Let’s deal in what’s actually true. Mayor Sabrina Hazen says she “felt blindsided” when […]
In a letter posted last night, the City of Falmouth tried to paper over the controversy by insisting,“Don’t worry, we have fully funded the Fire Department.” But reading between the lines, this letter reads more like a last-minute PR bandage […]
Shut Down the Fire Department After two years of inflating the police budget beyond reasonAfter floating an ordinance to mandate a certain number of city cops… after proposing to hire a city manager for a town that barely covers 1.3 […]
Where Geography Made the CallFalmouth didn’t become important because someone declared it so. It became important because of where it sat. By the early 1800s, the settlement that would become Falmouth occupied a rare geographic position at the confluence of […]
Before cell phones, before rotary dials, and even before most homes had private lines, there was the switchboard. And in Falmouth, Kentucky, it wasn’t automation that connected calls. It was real people. More specifically, it was young women seated behind […]
If This Makes You Uncomfortable, You Might Be the Problem The Pledge We Proposed Yesterday, we proposed a simple pledge, one any serious candidate for public office should be happy to take: I pledge to serve with honesty and integrityI […]
Falmouth Kentucky: A Water History Written in Flood and Failure Rivers Gave Life and Risk Falmouth is a small town at the meeting point of the Main Fork and South Fork of the Licking River. That geography brought life. It […]
A River That Once Worked There was a time when the river that runs through Pendleton County was more than just scenery. It was a resource, a living harvest. From the late 1800s through the early 1900s, the Licking River […]
If you have paid attention over the last few years to the Falmouth council meetings, nothing that is going on today should surprise you. The same people who fought tooth and nail against making upgrades and outsourcing trash and electric […]
This is the face of fear. After nearly a decade of warnings from Mayor Sebastian Ernst, Falmouth’s electric grid is finally breaking down and the city has no funds left to repair it. Even though Sebastian brought this issues up […]
