Approaching the bridge 2016-12-19 - Louisville, KY - Photo by Crissie DeSpirito. Tunnels under Brownsboro Road east of Louisville allow access to the new Lewis and Clark Bridge, which opened to traffic on Sunday, December 18, 2016. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

The new Lewis and Clark Bridge 2016-12-19 - Louisville, KY - Photo by Crissie DeSpirito. The East End Crossing opened to traffic Sunday, December 18, following an earlier opening ceremony, marking completion of the $2.3 billion Louisville-Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges project. The long-anticipated 8.5 miles of new roadway connects the eastern edge of suburban Louisville and an area just east of Jeffersonville, Ind. with its centerpiece 2,500-foot cable-stay bridge reaching across the Ohio River. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Kayla Garrison wins philanthropy award 2016-12-19 - Louisville, KY - Photo courtesy Children\\\'s Hospital Foundation. Lindsey Wilson College sophomore and Columbia, Ky., teen Kayla Marie Garrison Jones has been honored by the Greater Louisville chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Jones was the recipient of the Young Philanthropist of the Year award, which was presented in November during a National Philanthropy Day lunch at The Seelbach Hilton in Louisville. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Law enforcement at site of discovery of badly decomposed body 2016-12-19 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com (c). Law enforcement agencies, including the Kentucky State Police, The Adair County Sheriff's Office, and the Columbia Police Department are on the scene of investigating a discovery of a badly decomposed body discovered this morning, Monday, December 19, 2016. Details are sketchy at this time, but FM 92.7's Don Salmon and the WAVE's news staff; FM 99.9 The BIG DAWG's news anchor Larry Smith and the Shoreline Communications news staff, and ColumbiaMagazine.com will bring more on the radio stations and CM as quickly as it can be reliably reported. - Ed Waggener Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Body discovered along bypass 2016-12-19 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com (c). Kentucky State Police, the Adair Co. Sheriff's Office, and Columbia Police are all on the scene at the discovery of a body at the northwest corner of the intersection of Veterans Memorial Bypass and Campbellsville Road. Details are sketchy at this time, but FM 92.7 The WAVE, FM 99.9 The BIG DAWG, and ColumbiaMagazine.com will have more as this story develops. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

To many, squiggle signs mean pretty countryside ahead 2016-12-19 - Adair Green County line, Cabin Creek Road at Cane Valley Road - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com (c). Does anybody know how to find the number of Squiggle Signs in each county. Surely a Squiggle Index would be a component of Agri-Tourism - the more squiggles, the more visitor interest in an area. The Squiggle above is at the border, where Green County's Cabin Creek Road becomes Cane Valley Road in Adair County, just a short distance from C.R. Jones Road. The Adair County portion is in Sixth District Magistrate Greg Caldwell's District. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Culvert fails in Town Creek flash flooding more often now 2016-12-19 - Foot of Jamestown Hill, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com (c). Scarcely anyone but first responders knew Sunday morning that the Saturday, December 17, 2016 storm, accompanied by heavy rains, produced flooding on Jamestown Street when this culvert again failed to handle the runoff. Such overflows seem to be happening with increased frequency with suspected culprits increased hard surface building on Jamestown, Tutt, and Hurt Streets coupled with decreased vegetation to slow the run off, or perhaps, climate change. Fortunately on Saturday night, Columbia and Adair County's First Responders did a magnificent job of handle the potentially dangerous situation in an efficient, effective manner, while most slept through it, completely unaware of the well organized effort of Columbia Police and the Adair County Sheriff's Office and Kentucky State Police; the Adair 911, Adair County Rescue Squad, the Columbia City Street Department, the Adair County Road Department, and the KY Transportation Cabinet's Adair County Crew, to name just a few. - EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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