RIDES II: a three-in-one example 2016-05-15 - Jamestown Street, Columbia KY - Photo by Linda Marcum Waggener, columbiamagazine.com. RIDES is the columbiamagazine.com term to describe anything that takes you where you want to go -- cars, bikes, trucks from toy trucks to Mac trucks, tractors, wagons, motorized wheelchairs, horses, mules, skateboards, etc. This example offers three modes of movement in one -- boats, bikes and auto. (Next earlier RIDES photo: RIDES (I) - Indian Motorcycle - replete with fantasy) Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

New CAUD chair, Wid Harris, presides for first time 2016-05-15 - Columbia/Adair Utilities District (CAUD), 109 Grant Lane, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com (c). Wid Harris, who holds the record as the longest serving Magistrate in Adair County History, is the new chair of the Columbia/Adair County Utilities Board. He announced at the outset of the meeting that he expected business to be conducted in a courteous manner and that he liked short meetings best. He also announced a policy long needed - that the public would be heard - but that remarks would be limited to five minutes. That rule did not have to be invoked in the Thursday, May 12, 2016 regular session. At right is the district's long time board attorney, Marshall Loy. - EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Wildflowers of KY: is this blackberry winter? 2016-05-15 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com (c). The cold snap we're going through must be Blackberry Winter. Finally found these in bloom this past week, with a visitor on one of the blossoms. Checking Blackberry entry in Wikipedia, disambiguated to cover the bramble fruit, we learned a lot we didn't know. For one thing the article says that the berries are not berries, but an aggregate fruit, if that makes one whit of difference in a cobbler, and that it is a science sin to call its prickles "thorns." So everybody might oughta do better and remember that. There's an ecological note, directed at misguided local counties' roadside poisoning programs, we guess, which can't be good for this natural food: Poorer crops are the result of fewer pollinators. Natural berries are harder and harder to find. No more are the days when, according to the late Varmintologist Dr. Billy K. Neat, the champion berry picker of all time, the late Cotton Durham, could "pick 55 gallons in one day, starting before daylight and stopping after sundown, armed with only a snake stick and a bunch of 50 lb. lard cans." And, as a precautionary note: Eating the delicious drupelets from anywhere the herbicide might drift might not be such a good idea. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Brenna Wethington earns IC3 digital literacy certification 2016-05-15 - Photo by Calen McKinney, Public Information Officer, Campbellsville Independent Schools (CIS). CHS student receives industry certification. Campbellsville High School junior Brenna Wethington recently passed exams to receive globally recognized industry certification. Wethington has passed all three of the required Certiport exams, as of Friday, May 13, to receive IC3 digital literacy certification. Those classes include key applications, living online and computing fundamentals. Sonya Kessler is the CHS computer science teacher. - Calen McKinney ________________​__________ Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

James Comer listens - chats with Shirley Grider at BAVFD fish fry 2016-05-15 - Breeding Area Volunteer Fire Department Building. 290 Fire Department RD, Breeding, KY - Photo by Tiffany Kessler. James Comer, candidate for U.S. Representative in the KY First Congressional District, left, listens to Shirley Grider, of Columbia, KY, at the at the Annual Breeding Fire Department Fish Fry/BBQ Chicken/Auction fundraiser, Saturday evening, May 14, 2016. At right, over Mrs. Grider's shoulder, is Kenneth Scott, also of Columbia. In election years, the event is Adair County's equivalent of Fancy Farm. This year, with fewer candidates on the primary ballot, Comer pretty much had the spotlight to himself. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Scenic Russell Co., KY - Jamestown pretty in big and small ways 2016-05-15 - Russell County Judicial Center from N Main Street, Jamestown, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com (c). Downtown Jamestown, KY, is pretty in big and small ways, from the impressive new Judicial Center, left in photo, to small flower gardens at private locations everywhere. The roses on North Main were vibrant in the evening sun on Saturday afternoon, May 14, 2016, on a day marked by blue skies and some carefully placed clouds floating by. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

James Comer with friends at BAVFD Fish Fry 2016-05-14 - Breeding Area Volunteer Fire Department Building. 290 Fire Department RD, Breeding, KY - Photo by Tiffany Kessler. James Comer, Tompkinsville, KY, candidate for U.S. Representative in the KY First Congressional District, left, with Shirley Grider, Kenneth Scott, and Margaret Sparks, all of Columbia, KY. The photo was taken at the Annual Breeding Fire Department Fish Fry/BBQ Chicken/Auction fundraiser, Saturday evening, May 14, 2016. A large crowd was on hand for the event, which was scheduled this year to make sure Mr. Comer could fit it into his schedule. Visible behind this group is Adair/Casey District Judge Mike Loy, who attends the event every year. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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