O.D. Frazier, Sanitation Department Director, addresses Council 2013-06-03 - City Hall, 116 Campbellsville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Columbia Sanitation Director O.D. Frazier presented the methodology on the way new rates were established in an ordinance given first reading tonight, June 3, 2013, at the Columbia City Council. On the Council platform are, from left around the U, Councillors Dr. Ron Rogers, Charles Grimsley, June Parson, City Clerk Sonya Biggs, Mayor Mark D. Harris, City Attorney Marshall Loy, Councillors Craig Dean, Linda Waggener, and Robert Flowers. The meeting was held with a packed, standing room only, gallery. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Hooded shirt found with body found on side of I-65 2013-06-03 - Hardin County, KY - Photo from MTPR Norman Chaffins. State Police at KSP Post 4, Elizabethtown, KY are hoping someone will recognize this hooded shirt which was found with the body found by a mower operator alongside I-65. Anyone with information is asked to contact KSP Post 4 at (270) 766-5078 or Post 3 at (270) 782-2010 or visit KentuckyStatePolice.org with information. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

CACEDA behind closed door 2013-06-03 - 201 Burkesville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. The Columbia/Adair County Economic Development Authority held another executive session this morning starting at 8amCT and continuing until just after 9amCT, Monday, June 3, 2013, when the door was again open to all the public, a lone media representative. Chairman Jim Hadley annnounced that no action was taken in the meeting - it can't be under the law - and that no action would be taken at the meeting, following which the meeting was adjourned. In the meeting were actual members of the the board, Chairman Jim Hadley, members Doug McCammish, Randy Burns, Anthony Janes, Dan Antle, and Tony Corbin. Other present were CJE Ann Melton, Mayor Mark Harris, the latter two ex officio members of the board but non voting private citizen Marty Dykes and private citizen Greg Corbin, and a spokesman for whatever they were discussing. CM has not learned if the "no action" meant that none is needed or that action would be needed and will come at a later time. Public law allows an executive session in the matters involving the sale or purchase of land, but only if the discussion would affect the price of the land. Other than one media representative, no one else was at the meeting. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Parking lot of Assisted Transportation Systems newly paved 2013-06-03 - Development Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. The crown jewel of Green River Commerce Park, Assisted Transportation Systems, Inc. has just blacktopped its parking lot - a $70,000 additional investment in the plant and in the park. ATS, all locally developed, now has a payroll of $1 million annually. Many with top production jobs now earn $25 an hour. The opportunity to be able to work at home in Adair County prompted many to leave jobs paying $35 elsewhere; the workers preferred living in Adair County and being with their families to being able to earn more elsewhere. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Maury's holed up snake is out of inside the tree 2013-06-03 - Beautiful Joppa, Adair County, KY - Photo by Maury Lewis. The snake is out of the tree and he is identified as a rat snake. He came out on his own. He is welcomed on this property and will not be bothered any more. If the identification is not correct then I will take correction and would appreciate being corrected. - Maury Lewis Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Historic Columbia, KY: Group with Massie House in background 2013-06-03 - 200 Merchant Street, Columbia, KY - Photo from Hershel Harmon collection. Hershel Harmon shares this favorite old photo from his collection. It shows, from left, Montrie Beard Hayes, Hayden Harmon, and Nancy Litteral Rooks, with a car which looks to be from the post World War II era, and behind it, a pickup truck loaded with bags of feed, and behind that, the Massie House, later converted by Shirley Glasgow and James Woody into a business which continues today, the Adair County Southern States Cooperative store. The photo is taken on what appears to be a lot which now is, or is part of, the Columbia/Adair County Fire Department Building location. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Scenic Russell Co., KY: Plenty of water falls 2013-06-03 - Half Acre Ridge/Clear Springs Road, Russell County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener. Russell County's waterfalls never get the publicity Lake Cumberland does, but they are delightful water features. This one is not as grand as those on Greasy Creek or east of Jamestown out Cumberland Avenue, but it is a a calming, peaceful, welcome scene along the byway between Jamestown and Russsell Springs, on the "shortcut" Half-Acre Ridge Road. - CM Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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