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C-J story says KY 61 project in Adair County is killed

BLACK MONDAY

Adair County's economic development has been dealt a serious blow, according to a story by Tom Loftus in this morning's Courier-Journal online which says that the KY 61 Project from just south of the Louie B Nunn Parkway to Sparksville has been cut.The story, "Transportation Cabinet cuts Adair County highway project/Prather: There's not enough money for it" Note: The link is working today, Monday, September 22, 2008, but may not work in the future.

The construction was important to the success of the new Holladay Place Shopping Center, as it would have made travel to Columbia from points in Cumberland and Clinton Counties in Kentucky, and Clay, Fentress and Pickett Counties in Tennesssee much more attractive.




This story was posted on 2008-09-22 07:23:47
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What will happen with Jumping Off Place



2008-09-22 - Kentucky 61 South, Columbia, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
ADAIR COUNTY LEADERS are hoping to learn soon what the Kentucky Highway Department will do with the dangerous jumping off place, right, which was supposed to be the start of the continuation of the new KY 61 South to Sparksville, now that the Kentucky Department of Highways has killed the project. At left, a car comes down the the old KY 61 after negotiating the dangerous curve connecting the old and the new. Barricades block access to the end of the road.

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