KY Afield Outdoors: Widespread heavy rains create challenges 2015-07-30 - Cave Run Lake - Photo by Lee McClellan. Versailles resident Steve Reynolds fishes around a courtesy dock rendered inaccessible from high water at the Alfrey Ramp boat ramp on Cave Run Lake last week. Reservoirs like Cave Run Lake will release a lot of water from their dams due to the recent torrential rains. Anglers must adjust their tactics for success as lake levels quickly fall. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Bids opened for new Adair County, KY bus garage 2015-07-30 - Columbia, KY - Photo from Renae Smith, Adair School District Financial Officer. Bids were opened at 2pmCT, Tuesday, July 28, 2015, in the board room of the Adair County School District. Two bids were submitted, with Branscum Construction Co., Russell Springs, KY, the low bidder. Awarding of the bids is on the agenda for the board's Special Regular Meeting, this evening at 6pmCT, Thursday, July 30, 2015, at the Adair County Board Conference Room, 1204 Greensburg Street, Columbia, KY. The original estimate for the three bay garage was $1.3 million. Board member Mike Harris said that he thinks the board will have the bonding capability and enough from its general fund to go ahead with the building, if the board agrees tonight. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Digging the trenches for undergound lighting at school campus 2015-07-30 - Indian Drive, Adair County School District, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Barry Hamlett operates the track excavator, and Troy Kimbler, Kimbler Construction Company, operates the Bobcat backhoe for construction of underground utilities for the new boulevard lighting system underway on Indian Drive on the Adair County School District campus on Thursday, July 30, 2015. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Godfrey Jackson, gets ACHS lighting project underway 2015-07-30 - Indian Drive, Adair County School District, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Godfrey Jackson, ACHS '85, right, is the big man on campus again. He's the Taylor County RECC Staking Engineer for the boulevard lighting project which will soon illuminate Indian Drive from Greensburg Street to Indian Stadium. With him, above, are Adair County Maintenance Director David Jones, left, and Superintendent Alan W. Reed. The lighting project is one of several now in progress on the campus. Supt. Reed said that plans are to have five of the Indian Drive lights installed and operational by opening day of school, Thursday, August 6, 2015. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Stage of Construction: New Five Star 30 Jul 2015 2015-07-30 - Corner Burkesville Street & Hudson Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener . B & B Cranes, Columbia, KY was putting trusses in place on the Five Star store at the corner of Burkesville & Hudson Streets in Columbia, KY, this morning, Thursday, July 30, 2015. The tanks are already buried for the gas pumps and the steel columns are in place for the canopy over the fueling island. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Birds (not) of Kentucky: Snowy Egret 2015-07-30 - Siesta Key, FL - Photo by Pen. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

40th Annual Cocanougher Reunion 2015-07-30 - The American Legion Hall, 428 W Second Street, Perryville KY - Photo From Mike Crain. The following is identification of attendees pictured at The 2015 Cocanougher Reunion at Perryville KY July 26, 2015. Row 1, from left - Matt and Celeste (Duncan) Moore, Nicholasville, KY; Debbie Lowe, Danville, KY; Carla Reed, Columbus, IN; Leeanne Gordon Randolph, Danville, KY; Pat Cocanougher, Danville, KY; Ruth Hatchett Duncan, Lexington, KY; Esther Hatchett Money, Shelbyville, KY; Dorothy Cocanougher Reid, Decatur,TX; Marie Sue Cocanougher Murray, Henrietta,TX; Janie Young Logsdon, Springfield, KY; Norma Coyle Glasscock, Perryville, KY; Abree Ganns (child), Danville,KY; Beulah Cocanougher Jones, Danville, KY; Denny Cocanougher, Perryville, KY; Bill Jones, Danville, KY. Row 2 - Ty Clenney, Scottsville, KY; Cecilia-Ellen Higdon, Springfield, KY; Bonnie Weakley Hatchett, Lebanon,KY; Neil and Renee Bledsoe Adams, Paducah,KY; Kim Hawkins, Gravel Switch, KY; George and Peggy White, Danville KY; Nancy White Neikirk, Westfield, MA; Kathy A. White, Danville,KY; David Burns, Springfield,KY; Mike Crain, Lexington,KY; Joanne Cocanougher, Perryville,KY; Bill Burns, Springfield, KY. Row 3 - Kaylee & Brandon Keeling, Perryville, KY; Alexander (child) and Jenny Higdon, Springfield,KY; Stewart Cocanougher, Danville,KY; David M. Hardin, Danville, KY; Janie White Murphy, Pickerington,OH; L. Baxter and Kathy White East, Lancaster, KY; Martha White Jett, Danville, KY; Scotty Cocanougher Clenney, Scottsville, KY; Helen Connour Daugherty, Mattoon, IL; Mary Kathyrin Crain Locklin and John Locklin, New Haven, KY; Kenneth Crain, Springfield, KY; Sara Collingsworth, Lexington, KY; David White, Lexington, KY. Row 4 - George Duncan, Lexington, KY; Burton Hatchett, Lebanon, KY; Mike Money, Shelbyville, KY; Jeff and Joe and Beverly White Starks, Lexington, KY; Jimmie Cocanougher, Perryville, KY; Wanda Daugherty, Plainfield, IN; Bruce Cocanougher, Springfield,KY; Pamela Chaples, Lawrenceburg, KY; Doretha Burns, Springfield, KY; Kristi Bianchi, Waddy, KY; Joe Hays, Perryville, KY; Joe and Charlene Cocanougher Carter, Mt. Juliet, TN. Not pictured - Ann Hardin and foster grandchild, Danville, KY; David Caldwell and Margaret Riley, Danville, KY; Jon Glasscock, Perryville; Larry and June Ison, Harrodsburg, KY. - MIKE CRAIN Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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