This Week in Citizen-Times History (July 8, 2025)

The July 13, 1995 edition of The Citizen-Times saw the announcement of Miss Allen County, being both Rachel Crowder and Susan Gibbs, the latter of which had been Allen County Teen Miss in 1994.

It was also announced that at the fair, during the Mule Pulling Contest, Danny Grider of Summer Shade, Kentucky had won the heavyweight division, driving the mules Luke and Henry, having weighed in at 3,200 pounds and pulling 8,000 pounds.

Additionally, federal lawmakers which represented Allen County at the time visited their constituents during their congressional recess, including Senator Mitch McConnell, who addressed community leaders on July 5 that year, and Representative Ed Whitfield, who held a town hall on Saturday, July 8 that year.

Both McConnell and Whitfield discussed sweeping changes and “transformations” that they were pushing for within the federal government.

Whitfield had been one of the signers of the Contract with America, with McConnell urging at the time that the biggest issue was to get their “financial house in order.”

McConnell also addressed the national debt, which in 1995 had grown by $5 trillion in the past 25 years, with the debt in 2025 currently sitting at an estimated total of $36.21 trillion.

The Citizen-Times, consolidated of The Citizen (1908) and Allen County Times (1890) on Oct. 10, 1918, has proudly served Scottsville and Allen County for 135 years.