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Big Bone Lick's 42nd Salt Festival opens Oct. 16 in Union
Big Bone Lick State Historic Site in Boone County hosts its 42nd annual Salt Festival from Friday, Oct. 16, through Sunday, Oct. 18, featuring frontier demonstrations, live music, a petting zoo and the park's resident bison herd.
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Chick-fil-A food drive collects meals for 1,300 NKY students
Area Chick-fil-A restaurants are collecting nonperishable food through Friday, Oct. 16, for GO Pantry's weekend meal program that serves about 1,300 Northern Kentucky students weekly. Donors who return filled bags receive a Chick-fil-A meal card while supplies last.
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Housing shortage looms over Boone County's 1,875 new jobs
Northern Kentucky is 25,000 housing units short of meeting workforce needs across Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties, and local leaders say the gap threatens recruitment for Boone County's logistics and manufacturing employers, which announced nearly 1,900 new jobs in 2025 alone.
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Florence nonprofit teaches life skills to 134 teens and adults with developmental differences
Perspectives: Skills for Life, a nonprofit Debra Geers opened on Cavalier Blvd. in Florence in October 2025, has served 96 teens and 38 adults through seven programs covering independent living skills from laundry to grocery shopping.
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