Vex robot ready for competition 2017-01-15 - Elizabethtown, KY - Photo by Pen. A team robot ready for a match to begin at Saturday's EC3 Hardin County KY State VEX Qualifier. 65 teams from Kentucky and Indiana competed in a full day of timed matches at the Early College and Career Center in Elizabethtown. Student-designed and -built robots competed in teams of 2 in frantic two-minute matches to move objects across a barrier onto other teams' territory. Paired photo: Working on the Robot Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Working on the Robot 2017-01-15 - Elizabethtown, KY - Photo by Pen. Graham Waggener makes adjustments to a team robot at Saturday's EC3 Hardin County KY State VEX Qualifier. 65 teams from Kentucky and Indiana competed in a full day of timed matches at the Early College and Career Center in Elizabethtown. Graham's freshman team for Collins High School finished 44th, although one of the Collins teams made it to the very final round of competition before falling to a tough alliance of robots from Hardin County Schools. Paired photo: Vex robot ready for competition Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Mister P Express CEO Cynthia Parnell 2017-01-15 - Jeffersonville, IN - Photo by Linda Waggener. Cindy Parnell Collier had this portrait painted of her father Allan Mercer Parnell. Together with her stepmother Bunny Parnell, the three of them were at the beginning of Mister "P" Express, Inc which today is a multi million dollar corporation. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Collier and a Mister P Express truck driving class 2017-01-15 - Jeffersonville, IN - Photo by Linda Waggener. Cindy Parnell Collier stands with students of one of the Mister "P" Express, Inc. training courses. These students were among many who delve into the opportunity of becoming professional drivers. She led development of the school as part of the work of recruitment, finding and training good drivers. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Foggy morning in Elizabethtown 2017-01-15 - Hardin Co., KY - Photo by Pen. Highway 361 disappeared into fog yesterday morning at the intersection with the 31W bypass. Photo Sat 14 Jan 2017. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Elk on hill. KY F & W proposes elk season modifications 2017-01-15 - KY Fish & Wildlife Commission, 1 Sportsmans Way, Frankfort, KY - Photo from Lee McClellan, KY Fish & Wildlife. The Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Commission took another step toward its goal of increasing Kentucky's elk population at a faster rate by proposing hunting season modifications and setting season dates, detailed in the accompanying article. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Liberty, KY still has downtown shoe sales 2017-01-15 - Boot & Shoe Station, 646 Campbellsville St, Liberty, KY 42539 - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com photo(c). Something which still is in Liberty, KY and is only a memory in so many other county seat towns: a place to buy shoes. Many out-of-warranty Columbians can remember a time when a new pair of shoes was available in every quadrant of the square - When Marshall's sold only shoes, when a full line of Turson shoes from Dollar General Corporation and Nunn-Bush top of the line shoes were sold in Delmer Upchurch's Russell & Co., when the Herb Taylor's Men's Shop sold a full line of shoes, including Florsheim wing tips, and Hattie Lee Willis' Hat Shop sold women's shoes; Roy Owen's mens store sold shoes, Rudy's Lad & Dad, likewise; when Lerman's Department store had shoes for everyone, every age, in it's mezzanine and other locations; when Wooten's on the Well Walk offered shoes, and Mr. Royse's Army Surplus, also there, footwear; then there were shoes at the Paul & Mabel Jones' Style Shop, and Pickett's had a new and used store here. They may not have been open at the same time as all these, but Columbia had two downtown shoe repair shops, Amly Royse's, on the North Walk off the Square, and Mr. Lawless' shoe repair shop on the square. Shoe shines were available in Travis Scott's Barber Shop, at the Hotel Barber Shop, and inside Hugh Thomas and Berley Young's shop, the Maupin Barber Shop. Just off the Square on Jamestown and Burkesville Streets, were places to buy shoes as well. Today, there are none of these establishments in Downtown Columbia. So it's great to see the Boot and Shoe Station in Casey County. In those days, five & six decades ago, shoes were not only still made in America, Kentucky was manufacturing them too. There may have been local craftsmen who could make bespoke shoes to order, but my pocketbook never got higher than an occasional pair of Bass Weejuns. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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