By Dan Weber

NKyTribune sports reporter

First-year Simon Kenton football coach Joe Wynn feels like he never really left Northern Kentucky after playing football at Dayton High and becoming head coach at Newport for three seasons before his last four years at Mason County.

There’s a reason Wynn, whose Mason County teams racked up a 36-14 record, won a pair of district titles and earned a spot in the 2022 state semifinals, is so at home here. He never actually left.

With the way interest rates skyrocketed when he took the Mason County job, “It just didn’t make any sense,” he said, to buy a home then, not for someone on a teacher’s salary. So he commuted back and forth to Maysville every day.

Now his commute to school from his new home in Independence is “just a couple of minutes.” But t

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