Kentucky Color: Miss Sassy 2021-10-02 - Taylor Co., KY - Photo by Billy Joe Fudge. By Billy Joe Fudge Go to the Homeplace Trailhead of the Tebbs Bend Nature and Recreation Area, take the Beaver Pond Loop and you will find this beautiful old lady, we call "Miss Sassy". Miss Sassy is a Sassafras tree that has been proudly standing on the edge of a steep hillside overlooking Green River for hundreds of years. No doubt she watched every minute of the Battle of Tebbs Bend on July 4, 1863 and noted the passing of the Longhunters and maybe even Daniel Boone as early as the 1760's. Miss Sassy told me she loves to entertain visitors, have them touch her bark and smell that wonderful aroma of Root Beer emanating from her soul. She loves to have her picture taken with the children and have them shared on Columbia Magazine and social media. Note: Root Beer was indeed flavored by Sassafras Roots originally and when you're maybe 400 years old, everyone is a child! Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Undesirables 2021-10-02 - Russell County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Both the Poke plant and the visiting Stink Bug on one of its berries are undesirable, but they are everywhere this fall. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

CU Alumni leaders hold planning meeting 2021-10-01 - Taylor County, KY - Photo by Gerard Flanagan, CU Communications. Campbellsville University’s Alumni Board met Sept. 28, 2021 in the Chowning Executive Dining Room of the Winters Dining Hall on campus to make plans for the year. From left are: Front row – Glenna Bacon (’85) of Glasgow, Ky.; and Debby Hazelip Duda (’82) of Elizabethtown, Ky. Back row – Ashley Fox, director of alumni relations (M ’17), B.J. Senior (’68) of La Grange, Ky.; Fred Stein (’74) of Campbellsville, Ky.; David Hayes (’70) of Campbellsville, Ky.; and Herman Hardesty (’58) of Lexington, Ky. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

ACES Celebrates Custodian Appreciation Day 2021-10-01 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Alice Curry. On Friday, October 1, 2021, Adair County Elementary School students and staff lined the hallways and gave a round of applause to our school custodians to show them how much they are appreciated for keeping our school clean. Picture: left to right - Jr. Edrington, Valerie Woody, Katelyn Calvert, ACES Custodians with ACES students Phoenix Smith and Colton Grant Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Scenic Adair County: pumpkin street 2021-10-01 - Downtown Columbia, KY - Photo by Pam Hoots. Once a year Richard and Mary Beth Phelps allow their grandchildren to take over the yard on Jamestown Street and fill it with their Ballou family pumpkins. This year, they will be donating from their pumpkin variety to help decorate downtown Columbia for the start of the SquareCrow season and the Downtown Days festival coming up the second weekend of October. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Birds of Kentucky: Great Egret 2021-10-01 - Jefferson Co., KY - Photo by Pen. A great egret shares space with a turtle at Long Run Lake in eastern Jefferson County. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Work family sends good wishes to Rhonda Loy 2021-10-01 - Columbia, KY - Photo from the office of Mayor Pam Hoots, Columbia, KY. Rhonda Bennett Loy, third from left, was treated to a special lunch and tons of hugs and good wishes from her work family at City Hall Thursday as she retired from her position as Columbia City Clerk. The position is being filled by Woody Sharpe. From left are: Sydney Clark, Tiffany Collins, Rhonda, Ann Marie Austin, Jada Atwood, Woody, and Mayor Pam. Extended work family good wishes also come from the Parks and Rec, Gas, and Sanitation department employees along with all the City Council members. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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