Scenic Adair Co., KY: Flag flies over campus of Morgan Smith 2015-07-24 - 132 Power Plant Lane, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. The red, white and blue of the flag and the red and white Columbia/Adair County Utilities District water tower were pleasing summer time backdrops to the green, green, park like campus of Morgan Smith LLC, one of Adair County's premier employers. The building once one Oshkosh B'Gosh, later McCammish Mfg, and is now Morgan Smith. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Barbara Webster, Taylor Co., KY (1935-2015) 2015-07-23 - 418 Lebanon Avenue, Campbellsville, KY - Photo from Parrott & Ramsey Funeral Home. Barbara Webster, Taylor Co., KY (1935-2015) Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

KY Afield Outdoors: Boyd's Branch Boat Ramp 2011 2015-07-23 - Kentucky Lake - Photo by Lee McClellan. High lake levels, like this scene from Kentucky Lake in late spring of 2011, make for dangerous boating conditions. Recent torrential rains have many Kentucky lakes well above normal summer pool levels with streams high and roiling. Kayakers, boaters and swimmers should wear their lifejacket at all times during high water. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

MLK highway sign behind family and friends of Ralph Willis 2015-07-23 - Burkesville Road/KY 61, Adair Co., KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, CM. With the new Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial Highway sign in the background, family and friends paused together. It was the late Ralph Willis who first brought the request for a highway naming in Dr. King's honor before local officials. From left are his sisters Earlene Thomas and Clara Flowers, his wife Leetta Bridgewater Willis, daughter Deirdre Willis, and friend Sylvia White. - LW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Highway sign unveiled 2015-07-23 - Burkesville Road, KY 61/KY 80, at Pettys Fork Bridge - Photo by Linda Waggener, CM. Brandon Minton from Columbia, KY and Amber Hale, Public Information Officer from the Somerset office of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, District 8, joined local civil rights leaders, and members of City Council and Fiscal Court, and the Columbia/Adair Human Rights Commission for the sign unveiling. In the background, Columbia Mayors current and past, Curtis Hardwick current and Mark D. Harris, past. - LINDA WAGGENER, CM Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Randy Burns at economic development board meeting 2015-07-23 - 201 Burkesville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, CM photo. Randy Burns, a member of an energized Columbia/Adair County Economic Development Authority in deep thought during one of the most productive meeting of the EDA in the memory of many who attended the meeting. Burns, the highly successful Director of Alumni Affairs at Lindsey Wilson College, is a big contributor to a more effective EDA. A heavy emphasis on helping local businesses dominated the Tuesday meeting, although there are distinct differences of opinion on how that help should be delivered. The majority of the board wants a part-time "ambassador" hired to visit the local businesses. While cost hardliner Mike Curry, wants to examine other avenues, insisting on a results oriented, rather activity or "good feedback," reports. Chairman Mark Dykes, who is in favor of an "ambassador," acknowledges that self study is a part of the authority look at itself. He insists that the point people will be the County Judge Executive and the Mayor of Columbia - offices where the buck stops - who are, in the final say, where the buck stops. Still others are examining how results of expansions and locations occurred: Who really got results. Who got in the way. Who had got out of the way when firms simply saw what a favorable location Adair County, saw that it meets livability standards, had educational opportunities, and simply wanted to meet the right people with the right facts. The ones who believe that history has a way of repeating itself, that the mistakes of the past should not be repeated, that good results, should be uppermost. Not who can spend the most or deliver a "Here's what we done," report at the meetings. - EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

KY Farm Bureau President Mark Haney speaks at HoGR meeting 2015-07-23 - Homeplace on Green River, 5807 New Columbia Road, Campbellsville, KY - Photo by George Kolbenschlag. Kentucky Farm Bureau President Mark Haney was the keynote speaker at the Tuesday's Homeplace on Green River summer board meeting, held Wednesday, July 22, 2015. About 30 board members, political leaders and interested citizens from all three counties attended the meeting. Adair County Judge Executive Mike Stephens, Green county CJE John Frank and Taylor County CJE Eddie Roger all attended the meeting. The large contingent from Adair county also included Assistant CJE Holly Grimsley, Columbia Mayor Curtis Hardwick, Columbia City Councilman Charles Grimsley, Farm Bureau Board member Danny Wilkerson, Entrepreneur Ben Arnold and a number of other Adair County Homeplace board members and interested citizens. - GEORGE KOLBENSCHLAG Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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