Adair County Courthouse Clocktower: Another way 2014-07-15 - Downtown Columbia, KY - Photo CM staff photo. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Pikeville, KY, site of important SOAR conference Aug. 1-2, 2014 2014-07-15 - Pikeville, KY - Photo Commonwealth of KY photo. A Downtown Scene in Pikeville, KY, above, where the SOAR "Capitalizing on Culture" conference will be held Friday-Saturday, August 1-2, 2014. The conference is Free and is expected to draw economic development and cultural leaders to the Eastern Kentucky micropolis. Headquarters for most of the activities at the SOAR Conference will be Eastern Kentucky Exposition Center, 126 Main Street, Pikeville, KY 41501,, 606-433-0200, www.eastkyexpo.com Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Sound of Music performer gives tour to Education Committee 2014-07-15 - V.P. Henry Auditorium, 210 Lindsey Wilson Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. Lindsey Wilson College student Sam Wilson of Bowling Green, KY, discusses the college’s theater program Monday morning in V.P. Henry Auditorium with members of the General Assembly Interim Joint Committee on Education. Wilson gave a tour to committee members before they met in the college's Norma and Glen Hodge Center for Discipleship. Wilson plays Rolf Gruber in the TheatreFest! at LWC production of The Sound of Music. - Duane Bonifer Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Local Rotary President exchanges flags with District Governor 2014-07-15 - Cranmer Dining Center, 430 Helen Flatt DR, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ellen Zornes. Jayne Crisp, District 6710 Rotary Governor, spoke to our local club concerning district, sate, national and international projects and opportunities for Rotary clubs. She and local president, Hunter Durham, exchange Rotary flags . . . a custom practiced by Rotary clubs world wide. Ms. Crisp is also holding a children's book written by a Rotarian about the precepts of Rotary Club. Rotary International is a civic organization with clubs world wide that are active in their communities and on the international scene with projects such as Polio eradication. The Columbia Rotary Club meets the second and fourth Monday evenings at 6pmCT at Cramner Dining Center, 430 Helen Flatt Drive, Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, KY. To find out more about Rotary, just attend any meeting. We'd love to have you! - Ellen Zornes Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

We fly the flag: Twin flags at Franklin Nissan 2014-07-15 - 704 Jamestown Street, Columbia, KY - Photo CM Staff Photo. An some random memoriesThe flags which frame the entrance to Franklin Nissan, 705 Jamestown also frame, from another perspective, Jeffries Hardware & Wholesale Electric, located across the street at 704 Jamestown Street, in a building which began as one of two Columbia Dr. Pepper Bottling plants at the time, on land once owned by the late Mr. Jim Beard; 705 Jamestown Street, had the telephone number "192A" at one time, and if memory is correct, it's ring on the party-line was "two longs and a short. 705 Jamestown Street was the home of the rather lively family of the late E.P. and Audrey Chelf Waggener, whose memory is honored each summer with Christmas in July, one of the older family reunions in Adair County. The photo is taken from what was once the parking lot of G & G Motors, before which it was the home of the late Ernest & Louise Conover and of her father, Byron Montgomery. Byron Montgomery drove a little doctors coupe and was a gauger - just like the poet Robert Burns - by occupation. His work was largely in Nelson County. Columbia didn't not have have government approved distilleries at the time. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Rep. Jody Richards, AIKCU President Gary Cox at Lindsey Wilson 2014-07-15 - Hodge Center, 402 Helen Flatt Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. LWC photo. At General Assembly Education Meeting at LWC - State Rep. Jody Richards of Bowling Green, left, talks with Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities President Gary Cox following Monday's meeting of the General Assembly Interim Joint Committee on Education in the Lindsey Wilson College Norma and Glen Hodge Center for Discipleship. An Adair County native, Richards’ late father, Demaree, built the LWC Emily Hundley President's Home. - Duane Bonifer. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Entrance to new bowling lanes, fun center II 2014-07-14 - Campbellsville Road, Columbia, KY - Photo CM Staff Photo. The broad new entrance to Barney Burns' fun center/bowling lanes from Campbellsville Road, just north of Shady Lane. The center is scheduled to open in August and will be the home of the Lindsey Wilson Blue Raider Bowling Team. Paired Photo. See also: Entrance to Barney Burns new bowling lanes, fun center I Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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