Mildred Winfrey Hale, Russell County, KY (1925-2017) 2017-07-27 - 391 E Steve Wariner Road, Russell Springs, KY - Photo from Wilson Funeral Home. Mildred Winfrey Hale, Russell County, KY (1925-2017) Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Dr. Amanda Hess delivers baby in distress, then has her own 2017-07-27 - Frankfort, KY - Photo from Family Medical Center. Baby Ellen (and her big sister Kate) will have fun hearing the story of their hero Mom, Dr. Amanda Hess, when they grow up. This picture was taken minutes after she delivered Ellen Joyce, and shortly after she'd stopped prep for her own delivery to help another patient whose baby was in distress. Women doctors who deliver babies are regularly moms themselves. Seldom, however, do they stop their own delivery progress to help another mother whose baby is in an emergency situation. This one did, and she is making news and collecting congratulations! - LW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Speer family in Pigeon Forge, TN 2017-07-27 - On the edge of the Smoky Mountains - Photo from family collection. The Speer family of Columbia shared a keepsake picture from their recent trip to the Smoky Mountains. This photo of John, Tonya, Trevor, and Jenna Speer was taken at the fountain on The Island in Pigeon Forge, TN 22 July 2017. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Scenic Adair/Russell Counties, KY: Fall before its time 2017-07-27 - Cabin Creek/Turner Trail Area - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com(c). Fall feels earlier this year. Maybe it's the falling yellow walnut leaves. Maybe it is the promise of fields of purple-crimson ironweed, a regular late summer splash of beauty. Maybe though it is fencerows like this one, changing to delightful silhouettes either in time, or because of herbicide assaults. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Dr. Pam Stephens: District ready for school start 10 Aug 2017 2017-07-27 - Adair County School District Conference Room, 1204 Greensburg Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com(c). Dr. Pam Stephens, Adair County School Superintendent, above, studies notes. She enumerated several pre-school events leading up to the return of students to the campus on Thursday, August 10, 2017. She, school maintenance and grounds director David Jones, and Mike Sparkman, the school's architectural consultant, all had good news on the readiness of the facilities on opening day, including new lighting along campus drives, new air conditioning and a new roof at Adair County High School, and more as the physical transformation of the school grounds over the past few years has given Adair County more good press around the state than it has ever received. Clicking Read More accesses the complete account of the July 19, 2017 board meeting, posted July 20, 2017 - with additional photo(s). Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Flowers of KY - Sweetpeas in Old Breeding, may be volunteer 2017-07-27 - Breeding Loop, Breeding, Kentucky - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com(c). Sweet peas, probably from plantings decades ago, are prolific in yards in the delightful, stopped-in-time Old Breeding Community along the Breeding Loop. Some may know about the plant's Mediterranean Heritage, it's importance in the work of Gregor Mendel, (See: Wikipedia: Sweet Pea) and get nostalgic for the good old days of the 1940's and 50's, when they were a mainstay in gardens everywhere. Everyone will delight in the happy faces they present today and the wonderful scent of the heirloom blossoms. And everyone should know these plants do not provide edible peas - in fact they are toxic. - EW/LW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Fifth graders measure mass of textbook 2017-07-27 - Campbellsville Middle School, Campbellsville, KY - Photo by Calen McKinney, Public Information Officer, Campbellsville Independent Schools (CIS) . From left, CMS fifth-graders Hannah Singleton, Luke McDonald and Donna Schweickert measure the mass of a textbook. - Calen McKinney Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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