NKyTribune’s amazing ’25 NewsMakers award winners — and a grateful word for our sponsors

By Judy Clabes

NKyTribune editor

Soon after my beloved colleagues, the late Mike Farrell and Gene Clabes, and I founded the NKyTribune in 2015, we set forward some important guiding principles for our nonprofit public service online newspaper. Those principles had to do with a commitment to foundational, ethical journalistic practices, a deep commitment to the place we called home (filling a void left by the sad demise of The Kentucky Post), a promise of community caring engagement, and an abiding interest in celebrating — in myriad ways — the good people who make Northern Kentucky the special place it is.

On the latter point, though built on the others, our annual NewsMaker Awards program came into being. Each year for the past eight years we have celebrated extraordinary Northern Kent