Chelf Motor Company direct mail in 1927 2018-02-08 - Columbia, KY - Photo from family collection . This card from Mitzi McKinley Bault's family collection would have come down the line from her Grandmother Audrey Chelf Waggener. It reads, "Merry Christmas -- Two hundred years of usage have not out-worn our greetings, for our hearts are back of it when we say we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. CHELF MOTOR CO." The postmark looks to be December 23, 1927 and it required a 2-cent stamp to mail. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Hanging in there - cedar tree in distinctive stage 2018-02-08 - Near Russell Creek between Ozark and Beautiful Joppa, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. This Cedar tree is still contributing even in its end stage of life. The branches reaching out wide can provide strategic locations for birds to light and watch the river go by on the opposite side of the lane. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Masonic Lodge 931 aid MCPL Summer Reading program 2018-02-08 - Metcalfe County Public Library, 200 S Main, Edmonton, KY - Photo from Gaye Shaw, E/MC Chamber of Commerce. On Thursday, February 8, Brothers of Edmonton Masonic Lodge 931 F&AM, presented a donation to the Metcalfe County Library to use toward the 2018 Summer Reading Program. From left: Bro. Dave England, Bro. Gilbert Currey, Bro. Daniel Glass, Bro. Barry Gilley, Rhonda Glass (Library Director), Bro. Joe Ed McDonald, and Bro. William Teal (Master of the Lodge). Gaye Shaw Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Deer, people watching off Greensburg Road, Columbia, KY 2018-02-08 - Between Columbia and Milltown, KY - Photo by Junior Stotts. Two deer interrupted their routines to observe photographer Junior Stotts today, along a country lane by the Stotts Contruction, Inc. facility (in the former Dixie Cash & Carry Building). - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Student Leaders of the Week named at CHS 2018-02-08 - Taylor County, KY - Photo by Calen McKinney, Public Information Officer, Campbellsville Independent Schools. Campbellsville High School recently named its Leaders of the Week for the week of Feb. 5, 2018. They are, from left, sophomore Gavin Johnson, freshman Riley Rainwater, junior Kalisha Murphy and senior Cody Davis. -- CM ColumbiaMagazine.com welcomes school news from all schools in our seven county area, spotlighting our students at work. Text or call 270.403.0017 for more details. - CM Staff Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Welcome to Columbia signs being looked at by City Council 2018-02-08 - E 80, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Signs that mark the entrance to the city of Columbia, KY are being looked at for upgrades. Attention to signs at entrances to the city has been growing since questions on the oldest one on Greensburg Road have come up more and more often. Mayor Curtis Hardwick asked for and received Council agreement at the February meeting for the large wood sign across the road from Downey's Mill/Blair Park and Recreation Center on Greensburg Road to be addressed as soon as weather permits. The entrance sign pictured here results from an effort from about 20-25 years ago. ColumbiaMagazine.com welcome photos of our public signs that need to be repaired as the discussion continues. -- LW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Burkesville Street Phase progressing at remarkable rate 2018-02-08 - 400 Block, Burkesville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. The Columbia/Adair Utilities District (CAUD), Burkesville Street Phase of the utility's Downtown Phase, is making remarkable progress, already in the 400 block of Burkesville Street, today, Thursday, February 8, 2018, in an open trench phase through the yard of what is popularly known of as the Carl Hurt Home. Stotts Construction Company, Inc., is the contractor. So far, their work has required few road closures. But motorists are reminded to drive very carefully in the area and to reduce risks to the workers. The white KY Transportation Cabinet inspector's car, left of photo, is in "Pickney" (for Pinckney) Street. The project will be reviewed at the regular meeting of the CAUD Board of Commissioners regular monthly meeting at 4:30pmCT, this afternoon, Thursday, February 8, 2018, at Columbia/Adair Utility District, 109 Grant Lane, Columbia, KY. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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