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VOLUME 3, ISSUE 29 — JUNE 13, 2025
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Highlands grad has one last call for Bluebirds By Evan Dennison e’s called hundreds of games for Highlands athletics. His last will be on a grand stage – the KHSAA state baseball tournament in
He’s spent countless hours not only calling games, but in pregame preparation, gameday setup and operations. Some may just hear Bucher on the radio calling games or announcing basketball as the PA, but there’s a lot more to it.
Brennan Bucher has been on the air for years on bluebirdsradio.com, whether it’s a football, basketball or baseball game. The June 6 game against South Warren (or however long the Bluebirds baseball team goes) will be his last one.
“He’s my right-hand man,” Highlands Athletic Director Wes Caldwell said. “He knows all the ins and outs. Stats, scoreboard, PA. I trust him wholeheartedly, which is hard to do for an 18-year-old kid. He gets it done. We wouldn’t run as smooth as it does without Brennan Bucher.”
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“It’s everything I could have asked for,” Bucher said. “If you told me I could have got to do any game at UK, but for it to be Highlands baseball at UK on the biggest stage, to be able to do that is pretty incredible. I can’t really put it into words on how grateful I am with this group.” Bucher recently graduated from Highlands and is headed to Arizona State University to continue his education and what he hopes will be a long broadcasting career. He’ll likely head west with more experience than most of his college classmates … combined.
This last, and one of his only, state tournament trips with a Highlands team is a special one for him. Bucher played baseball growing up and through his freshman year. “I was on the same team with a majority of these guys: Jacob Robinson, Brooks Hendrix, Adam Forton, Iain Carner. You go around most of the lineup, and I’ve played with them,” Bucher said. “We’re all really, really close. It makes it exciting to keep covering this team and easier to call games and do work on guys that I know so well.” Continues on page 3
Brennan Bucher calling a game on Bluebirdsradio.com. Provided
Fort Thomas park land sale for grocery stalls LINK staff report
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n June 2, Fort Thomas hinted that a “large grocery store” chain could come to Memorial Parkway. By the end of the week, though, the idea was stalled. At the June 2 Fort Thomas City Council meeting, City Administrator Matt Kremer announced the city would sell 6.8 acres of Carlisle Park for $650,000 for an unnamed grocery store. Although the city declined to name the business, the project was said to be handled by Cincinnati-based developer STNL Development, which is developing a Publix store in Owensboro.
Fort Thomas resident Sharon McKnight addressed city council with concerns about the proposed sale of the Carlisle property. Council member Eric Strange listens. Photo by Robin Gee | LINK nky contributor
Fort Thomas Councilmember Andy Ellison told LINK nky that the deal would have to be done through a municipal order, but that it most likely doesn’t have the votes
to come to fruition. Council would have to vote on the order to allow the mayor to enter into a contract with the development company. If there are not enough votes, there’s no project. “I’m pretty confident that there’s enough no [votes] to where it wouldn’t pass, where it may not even make it to the agenda,” Ellison said. A municipal order is a binding official act of a municipality’s legislative body that deals with internal matters and is enforceable, though not so broadly as an ordinance. “My belief is that the city of Fort Thomas is very proud to call itself a city within a park,” Ellison told LINK. “The value that the green space brings far outweighs any revenue that we would get from a project like this.” Continues on page 4
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