Remember When Map from Larry Smith 2013-06-14 - Photo by Larry Smith. Larry Smith, Operations Manager for Shoreline Communications sent this shot of one of his old maps which raise a lot of wonderment and questions. Do you remember when: The Cumberland River divided Adair County from Wayne? When the Eastern Border was with Pulaski and Casey, not Russell and Casey? When the Western Border was with Green and Barren, not Green and Metcalfe? When Greene County was spelled with a third "e"? When the county seat of Casey County was Caseyville? When it was "Russell's Creek," not Russell Creek? When Greene County joined Washington and Hardin Counties? When Danville was in Mercer County, which joined Lincoln County, and no Boyle Countian was harassing the Turtleman, accusing him of placing a non-native Kentucky cottonmouth in the Danville/Boyle County swimming pool? When there wasn't even a Boyle County? But when there was a Summersville, Greene County, Kentucky, the only town in the world which can claim the photographer and archivist who sent this photo. - CM Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

What Stotts Construction company replaced on Mack Street 2013-06-14 - 109 Grant Lane, Columbia, KY . These 3/4" pipes have been replaced by 6 inch lines on Mack Street by Stotts Construction Company of Columbia, the firm hired by the bonding company to finish a Phase 14/Downtown Project, when Southern Backhoe abandoned the work. Columbia/Adair Utilities District (CAUD) General Manager Lenny Stone said that the old line was supposed to supply water to six families in the Hudson Addition. "I don't see how one person could have gotten enough water to take a shower," he said. Now there will be plenty of water, with adequate pressure to take care of an even larger neighborhood. The Downtown Project is one of several essential to rebuilding the City of Columbia's utility infrastructure, an undertaking promised by CAUD before the merger of the city and county systems. That promise is being fulfilled. It now appears that a stalled sewer system project is close to being put back on track, though at the cost of three months time in the race to remedy decades of neglect in the old city system. The pipes were on display at the Thursday, June 13, 2013, regular meeting of the CAUD Board of Directors. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Larry Smith Puzzler: Know where this is? 2013-06-14 - ?????? - Photo by Larry Smith. People who have lived in South Central Kentucky for nigh 75 years have never heard of this road. It points the way to a fantastic geological formation from which the road's name came. Larry Smith, Operations Manager for Shoreline Communications, the parent company of The WAVE, 92.7 FM, phone 270-384-3979, knows the story in depth. If you have information on where the sign is located, and what it's about, call him or send the information to ColumbiaMagazine.com. Two clues: 1) It is within 20 miles of the center of Kentucky - by one definition; and 2) It is within the center of the universe: Adair, Casey, Cumberland, Green, Metcalfe, Russell and Taylor Counties. - CM Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Bake Sale money helps fuel Heartland Outreach program 2013-06-14 - Campbellsville University - Photo by Joan C. McKinney. Campbellsville University sports management students,, from left, Jimmie Thompson (Bon Aqua, TN), Nick Jones (Mt. Juliet, TN) and Ellen Sholtes (Louisville, KY) present Todd Parish of Kentucky Heartland Outreach a donation from their Intro to Sports Management class project, and the six-person group used a pre-Thanksgiving bake sale to help raise $93 for Kentucky Heartland Outreach. - Joan C. McKinney, CU Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Nick Jones and Dr. Ted Taylor at Turner Log Cabin Park 2013-06-14 - Photo by Linda Waggener, CU. Nick Jones, left, of Mt. Juliet, TN, talks with Dr. Ted Taylor, professor of Christian studies, at the Turner Log Cabin Park. - Joan C. McKinney Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Lecturer at CAUD Wastewater Treatment Plant 2013-06-14 - Campbellsville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Maybe also the coolest Sewer Plant operator in the world, definitely in Kentucky, Bo Murphy, gave a brief lecture to members of the CAUD Utility Board who visited the plant. Murphy outlined the need for a new sludge press. The Sludge Plant will be part of CAUD's Phase 16 (EDA Sewer) project, for which funds/and grants are already approved. In the background of the photo is a hint of a slide below the Columbia Cemetery which will be repaired along with a project to protect the plant from flood damage, which lacks only a public hearing before the project proceeds. The board voted at it's meeting last night, June 13, 2013, to hold the public hearing at the Adair Annex, 424 Public Square, at 5pmCT, on Thursday, August 8, 2013, prior to its regular 6pmCT meeting that same day at the CAUD office, 109 Grant Lane, Columbia, KY. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Winner - for the Worst Lift Station in Sewer System 2013-06-14 - Rolling Hills Subdivision, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Columbia/Adair County Utilities District Members visited four sewer department lift stations which will be replaced when the CAUD Board approves accepts grants & loans already approved, expected soon. The almost makeshift sewer lift station, above, coded the "Hemlock Lift," is worst of four which require the most maintenance and which, with a failure, could cause serious health problems. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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