The Mystery Sinkhole: Picture of Location 2016-09-01 - Off Pineview Drive, below LBN Parkway, across LBN from Blue Raider Stadium - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com (c). Of course Joyce Coomer was right with the clue given for the mystery sinkhole. From the photo, it might have been any place. It's located on the access road off Pineview Road in Columbia, KY to a Columbia/Adair County Utilities District sewer lift station in the middle of the photo. The guardrail in the top of the frame is on the Louie B. Nunn/Cumberland Parkway, beyond which is Blue Raider Stadium. The farmland at left is a 12 acre lot at the intersection owned by Junior Stotts and others. The sinkhole was discovered by Columbia Street Superintendent Donnie Rowe, who is working on a plan to fill it. See original clue photo: Where in the World is It: Mystery photo Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Where in the World Is It? 2016-09-01 - ????? - Photo by G. Barry Loy. Recognize this place? And what the history around it is, send using the "Comment" link with this photo. Wow! hundreds of people have looked at this Mystery Photo in the last two weeks, and amazingly no one has guessed. NEW CLUE: See photo credit. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Jane Reed with her mother, Gladys Jessie 2016-09-01 - ACES, 870 Indian Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo by Wes Feese, Media Relations, Adair County Schools . Jane Reed with her mother, Gladys Jessie, at Reed's retirement celebration Tuesday afternoon at Adair County Elementary School. Wes Feese Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Jane Reed celebrates retirement 2016-09-01 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Wes Feese. Jane Reed, second from left, celebrated her retirement Tuesday afternoon at a ceremony at Adair County Elementary School. Reed is pictured with, from left: ACES Principal Steve Burton, former John Adair Middle School Principal Jane Branham, and former JAMS Vice Principal Kim Goodin. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

James Arthur (Pete) McAnelly, 71, Adair Co., KY (1944-2016) 2016-09-01 - 210 Greensburg Street, Columbia, KY - Photo Stotts-Phelps-McQueary Funeral Home. James Arthur (Pete) McAnelly, 71, Adair Co., KY (1944-2016) Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Heartland Parkway now open; the look going north into Coburg 2016-09-01 - South of Coburg on Heartland Parkway - Photo by Ed Waggener. Motorists are now enjoying first rides on the first segment of the upgraded KY 55 now designated as the Heartland Parkway today, September 1, 2016, in what is called a 2+1 design, with three continuous cross sections with alternating passing lanes. Shoulder widths and overall widths of the road bed varies widely. The right now paved shoulder here is five feet. Markings and signage give attentive motorists good instructions, but driving the road is more complicated than perhaps any other road in Adair County. In many ways, however, it is similar to the stretch of U.S. 127 between Russell Springs and Jamestown, KY, and improvement over a two lane highway, but not the best solution. The new speed signs going up - maybe installed by now, designate 55 mph, which is likely safe. Add on Kentuckians interpretation of the real speed limit as posted speed plus 9 miles an hour, heavy traffic, and/or fog, snow, or a downpour, and the design of the road can be problematic without intensive driver education.The coming Labor Day Week could be an early test of the parkway's safety. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Changing Downtown Columbia: Buildings razed, Theatre Walk 2016-09-01 - Downtown Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com (c). Buildings which housed some very memorable Columbia businesses are gone.. The little buildings on the Theater or North Walk off the Public Square have been razed. In the foreground, the one time location of Royse Shoe Shoe and later City Tv, and just beyond, where Cole & Pickett Barber Shop once stood, have been razed. The magazine is inquiring about what is intended for the locations. Of course, memories are welcome. - Ed Waggener. Photo September 1, 2016. Paired photo. See also - Where historic barber shop stood Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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