Terry Partin moderates wide-ranging Q & A session 2018-03-09 - John Burr Memorial Gymnasium, 526 Indian Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Terry Partin led the question and answer session, asking for and getting civil discourse through the evening's session at the Adair County School Safety forum last night, Thursday, March 8, 2018. Topics covered included increased law enforcement presence; "fight fire with fire,' on the issue of having more armed teachers; moving the sheriff's office to the campus, use of metal detectors, and more reliable news dissemination as a counter to social media rumors. - EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Epicurean Kentuckian: Nacho Black Bean Burger 2018-03-09 - Corbin, KY - Photo by Amy Waggener. The Nacho Black Bean Burger (with no bun) and to die for Brussels sprouts, from The Wrigley Tap Room in Corbin, KY. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Spring flowers: Justly vain, narcissuses are spring beauties 2018-03-09 - Adair County School District campus, from Indian Drive - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Narcissuses, with their golden tubes and creamy petals, justly vain of their beauty, still bowed in wind-choreographed synchronized spring dance, in the Adair County High School Arboretum. Seen Thursday, March 7, 2018. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Birds of KY: Robin insistently posing for portrait 2018-03-09 - Downtown Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Don't tell this camera hog Robin it was the second choice. A nuthatch we wanted for a digital capture escaped, refusing to stay in a Bradford Pear after we got too close. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Dr. Stephens addresses safety forum - Thu 8 Mar 2018 2018-03-09 - Adair County High School, John Burr Memorial Gymnasium, 526 Indian Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Dr. Pamela Stephens, Adair County School Superintendent, standing, presided at the Adair County School Safety Forum last night, Thursday, March 8, 2018. At the table to her left are counselors, Mary Ann McQuaide, school psychologist, with representatives of Counseling services used by the school system - Whitney Rodgers, Brandon Taylor, Kim Wilson; Angie Kenyon, Amberee Coomer and Robert Baugh. Center, School leaders and board members Lauren McQuaide, student representative on the school board; Robbie Harmon, dean of students; Lisa Burton (Division 3), school board chairperson; (Dr. Pamela Stephens seat), David Jones, Director ofTransportation/Maintenance; Terry Harvey (1), school board vice chairperson; and Jonathan Gaskins (4), school board member. Right table, law enforcement and judiciary - Kevin Atwood, SRO; Columbia Police Department chief Jason Cross; Adair County Sheriff Harrison Moss; Columbia Mayor Curtis Hardwick; Adair Coutny CJE Michael Stephens; Adair County Attorney Jennifer Hutchison-Corbin; District Judge Michael Loy; and Circuit Court Judge Judy Vance Murphy. - Linda Waggener Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Scenic Adair Co., KY - Evening on the 'lake' from Indian Drive 2018-03-09 - From Indian Drive, near Arboretum, Adair Co., KY School District campus - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. A pool of gold sparkled on what looked, from Indian Drive, to be a vast lake on school property. The picture is actually of sunset cloud formations that appeared as landscape on Thursday evening, March 8, 2018 before the registration for the School Safety forum. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

International Women's Day at LWC - 8 Mar 2018 2018-03-09 - Lindsey Wilson College, A.P. White Campus, Columbia, KY - Photo by LWC media studies junior Anna Murrell. Kolbe Curry, left, and Sidney Foster from Columbia work with human services and counseling and women's studies senior Kamil Malone from Nashville, TN, and psychophysiology junior Gabriella Pedroza from Cojedes, Venezuela. The children completed work pages and coloring sheets about the youngest ever Noble Prize laureate and activist Malala Yousafzai. Thursday, March 8, 2018, was International Women's Day, a worldwide holiday that celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. - Venus Popplewell, Director of Public Relations, LWC Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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