David Jones presents Bridge bus to Road Department 2013-05-15 - Adair Annex basement, 424 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. David Jones, Adair County Student Director was on camera for the Channel 2 coverage of the Adair Fiscal Court at last night's, Tuesday, May 14, 2013, regular meeting. At right background is Blake Spires, covering the meeting for the Adair Progress Thursday morning weekly newspaper. Partially obscured is Sharon Burton, Editor & Publisher of the Adair County Community Voice Wednesday afternoon weekly newspaper. Jim Leib, reporter for The WAVE, 92.7 radio, was present in the right side of the hall. Jones presented the keys to a surplus Adair County School District School bus, to Jobe Darnell, Adair County Road Supervisor. The bus will undergo adaptive re-use and re-purposing for a tool shed-to-site vehicle - in this case, a "Bridge Bus," for work on longer term Road Department Projects. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Steve Sanders one of AC bus drivers on Dunnville Road 2013-05-15 - Damron Creek Road - Photo CM file photo. Steve Sanders shown above in happy times 2008 story, Steve Sanders: Remembering the spoke factory about a manufacturing facility up thataway. Sanders is one of two Adair County School Bus Drivers who have to traverse what neighbor and neighborhood advocate Ryan Beard calls "a dangerous stretch of road," Dunnville Road from KY 206 to he Casey County line. Beard made an appeal to Adair Fiscal Court last night to take action on safety problems since the smoothened road has created safety problems for all who use it. County Judge Ann Melton and Adair County Road Supervisor Jobe Darnell promised to take a new look at the situation in Fiscal Court's regular monthly meeting, May 14, 2013. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Birds of Kentucky: Red Tailed Hawk 2013-05-15 - Frankfort, KY - Photo by Pen. You can get up close and personal with some of the birds at the Salato Wildlife Center. Here, John Baggerman, an Education Program Leader at Salato, is taking this red-tailed hawk back to his quarters after a session on feeding the raptors. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Mystery Picture: Do you know where this is 2013-05-15 - Somewhere in the 7 County area of Taylor, Russell, Metcalfe, Green, Cumberland, Casey and Adair Counties - Photo Egyptian observer. Identify the Church, and the town where it is located.The photographer often takes know South Central Kentucky counties and loves church steeples. This is one, with a puzzler perspective; we'll narrow it to that, but with some over 500 (anybody know the exact count?) churches in the 7-county area, that's not a huge clue. Another clue is the maze of overhead power lines, eliminating many. If nobody guesses by 12pm noon CT, today, we'll let everybody know, in one post to which this photo will be attached. ANSWER This one was too hard, perhaps. The "Egyptian Observer" is George Rice, who took this compressed photo over the roof of Burton Ace Hardware. The steeple is the familiar one - from a totally new perspective - at Columbia Christian Church, 206 Campbellsville Street, Columbia, KY - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

LWC Softball action: Andrea Whelan, Rineyville, KY 2013-05-15 - LW Sports Park, 828 Russell Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Dan White. Right fielder Andrea Whelan from Rineyville, KY, tied the game at 1-1 for Lindsey Wilson with a home run in the fourth inning. Lindsey Wilson beat Davenport, 4-1, to advance to championship play vs. AUM at 1pmCT, Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at Lindsey Wilson Sports Park, 828 Russell Road, Columbia, KY. - Dan White, LWC Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Cast of play, Bad Hair Day, presented at ACHS 2013-05-14 - 526 Indian DR, Columbia, KY - Photo by April Sheppard. The Cast for Bad Hair Day, presented by the Adair County Drama Class under the direction of JoAnne Held, included, in no particular order abovemembers included Malayna Alexander, Tyler Carter, Jordan Coomer, Terica Derringer, Jayce Grant, Beau Harrison, Levi Hausdorfer, Chris Hobaugh, Ben Holt, Sam Locker, Tabitha Mann, Destiny Mardis, Allison Owens, Matt Owens, Kyle Powell, Matt Rogers, Harlee Smock, Jessi Taylor, Spring Taylor, Julia Wallace and Blaze Wooten. - April Sheppard Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Crew of play, Bad Hair Day, presented at ACHS 2013-05-14 - 526 Indian DR, Columbia, KY - Photo by April Sheppard. The Crew for Bad Hair Day, presented by the Adair County Drama Class under the direction of JoAnne Held, included, in no particular order abovemembers were Tyler Burton, Carrissa Carter, Cindy Eaton, Whitney Frost, Brandie Merritt, Travis Richardson, Katrina Rogers and Samantha Roszak. - April Sheppard Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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