Kentucky Color: Most Feared Creature/Big mouthed Sycamorasauras. 2018-02-11 - Homeplace on Green River, 5807 New Columbia Road, Campbellsville, KY. - Photo by Billy Joe Fudge, President, Homeplace on Green River. This is one of the most feared creatures in the Great Wooded South. No one has ever seen one move but anyone who has ever been in the deep, dark woods at night has heard them. Firefighters, Coon hunters and the brave or ignorant who go traipsing through the boggy, soggy bottomlands alongside streams and rivers after dark have heard them. They, and indeed we, have heard them at night grunting like crazed Rhinos and munching on anything living or dead that would fit inside their oversized mouths. - Billy Joe Fudge Comments: George M. Rice -BJF must have had close relationship with Dr. Neat Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Tonia & Caleb Harris with three daughters, Born Learning grads 2018-02-10 - Adair County Primary Center (ACPC), 158 Col. Casey Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo by Jodie Stephens, Adair County School District. Tonja and Caleb Harris with their three girls after graduation from the Born Learning Academy at Adair County Primary Center. February's program was the sixth and final installment of the 2017-2018 school year, and featured a free meal, workshop, short lecture, activities for children, and the presentation of diplomas. Parents who attended said they learned how to spark learning opportunities during ordinary routines like bath times and grocery trips. - Jodie Stephens Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Graduation, Born Learning Academy at Adair Co. Primary Center 2018-02-10 - Adair County Primary Center (ACPC), 158 Col. Casey Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo from Jodie Stephens, Adair County School District. More than a dozen local families were recognized at Adair County Primary Center this month for their completion of the Born Learning Academy, a series of six free workshops for parents of children from birth to age five. The goal of the academy is to offer parents practical ideas on how to turn everyday moments into learning opportunities. - Jodie stephens, Adair County School District Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Flood waters rising at 3:52pmCT - Russell Creek near Sulphur Hole 2018-02-10 - Russell Creek near Green Hills Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Mitzi Bault. Mitzi Bault documented the rising of Russell Creek. "This taken from Mom's (Fay McKinley's) kitchen window," Mitzi Bault wrote at 3:52pmCT, Saturday, February 10, 2018. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Maps provided by Monarch Engineering providing new data 2018-02-10 - Burkesville Street Phase, Downtown Project - Photo Photo of Monarch Engineering map. Mapping for underground utility installations in Columbia, as in the majority of municipalities in the U.S., was far from accurate. However, Caud General Manager Lenny Stone told those at the Thursday, February 8, 2018 meeting of the utility board, better mapping will be in place after the project is in place, thanks in large part to notes taken by Joe McGeorge, project inspector for Monarch Engineering, who is documenting surprises, such as an unmapped fire sprinkler line to Sav-a-Lot, which was unmapped and subsequently ruptured, when an underground bore was being made. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

LWC students Kamile and Gabriella invite all to blood draw 2018-02-10 - Adair County, KY - Photo from Gabriella Pedroza. A Valentines Day blood draw will allow everyone to give the gift of life according to Kamile Malone, left, and Gabriella Pedroza, at right, helpers and ambassadors for the Red Cross. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Relatives give glimpses of weather across the country this week 2018-02-10 - IL, KY and CA - Photo Jeff, Missy and Mike. Three relatives have documented their weather in different pockets of the US and it doesn't even include the co-grandparents who are in the Florida sunshine as we speak. Jeff is in Chicago and he took the top photo of their winter storm as it was just beginning. Results of temperatures dropping below freezing after the rain were photographed by Missy in Kentucky in the center photo, and cousin Mike in California posted the peaceful, warm Pacific. -- LW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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