Long John Silver's coming down 2012-01-12 - 1003 Jamestown Street, Columbia, KY. - Photo by Ed Waggener. A long time Columbia landmark, The Long John Silver's seafood reastaurant is coming down. Most of the inside fixtures had been removed and the windows had been removed when the photo, looking north of Jamestown Street, was taken. The loss of this seafood store is being balanced by the announcement by Peter Cheng that his group will open a Golden Bay seafood restaurant on Campbellsville Road on January 18, 2012. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Snowstorm January 12, 2012: KHD Snowplows ready 2012-01-12 - Service Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Lights were on in the Kentucky Highway Department barn as snow removal trucks were getting ready to meet clear Kentucky Highways in Adair County. The picture was taken at around 5pmCT, Thursday, as a thin blanket of snow carpeted the countryside and some snow was beginning to stick to roads. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Kentucky Education: Quality Counts 2012-01-12 - Frankfort, KY - Photo from ky.gov. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Kentucky vaults 20 spots in national education ratings 2012-01-12 - Frankfort, KY - Photo from ky.gov. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Rev. Greg Burton 2012-01-12 - Photo from Burton family archives. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Adair County Entrepreneurs: Jimmy Nguyen and Peter Cheng 2012-01-12 - Jamestown Hill, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Jimmy Nguyen left, Columbia, KY and originally from Vietnam, has opened a second Love Nails. His first store is located at Greensburg Street, Columbia, KY, and he now has a second store located in Peter Cheng's shopping center in Tompkinsville, KY. Cheng, is a resident of Bliss, KY, and emigrated to Columbia, KY 17 years ago from Connecticut. The photo was taken atthe location originally slated to house CIMA, the Columbia Institute of Music and Art. Since then, Director, David Isaacs, and Cheng, head of TMCC (True Men Coming to Columbia) found a more favorable location at 203 Burkesville Street, Columbia, where the school opened this week. -EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

The Whitehurst Diaries: Daffodils in bloom January 11, 2012 2012-01-12 - Old Gradyville Road, Gradyville, KY - Photo by Sharon Whitehurst. Sharon Whitehurst writes: "Not full-blown glory, but these 'March lilies' were struggling to hold up their heads after the early morning deluge of rain." For some reason, perhaps not related to the legends of Confederate gold buried in the area, Gradyville does seem to have a Dixieland climate, with earlier blooming daffodils than any other part of Adair County. Perhaps it is about the Zippety-Do-Dah, Song of the South feeling in the happy little Big Creek Valley. For whatever reason, this is a documentation of the earliest daffodil blooms seen on CM. -EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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