Happy Tail: Even Darryl, our resident trouble-finder, got gifts 2014-12-28 - Sugarfoot Farm Rescue, 860 Sparksville Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Peg Schaeffer. If any dog should have gotten coal in his stocking for Christmas it should have been Darryl, our resident Beagle. If there's trouble to be found - he finds it. But doesn't he look innocent in this photo with his pretty Christmas collar? Luckily Santa brought him and the rest of the dogs lots of presents. - Peg Schaeffer Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Christmas Day Courthouse 2014-12-27 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Tiffany Kessler. Seasonal lighting makes local colors pop. Tiffany writes, "What a beautiful Christmas Day 2014." Seen in the ColumbiaMagazine group on Flickr. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

What is it? Deer lichen? 2014-12-27 - Fortune Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Pen. Neat looking plant growing on a dead stick in the yard. We're asking what it is in case someone knows. We don't as yet. Looks like deer lichen. - CM. Click Read More for Alan Reed notes on the plant and theory of it got to Fortune Street. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Changing face, Downtown Columbia: New grill, new awning 2014-12-27 - Fountain Plaza, Downtown Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. The 100 octant of the Public Square is looking better to start 2015. There's a new awing up for the Mexican Restaurant, Grimsley's Jewelry is thriving and has a wonderful window display, as usual. Mackie Jo Pennington has announced that she her store, the blue trim one, next to Grimsley's, the Columbia-based chain jewelry store, promises be much more active this year. This past year was good to the Fountain Area, as well. Public Benches and Tables new tables, from Fabco in Columbia, were installed, and canopies are included. One can't yet get a Corona with a meal here, as one can in Campbellsville, KY, but maybe that will change in the coming year. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Santa was especially good to especially good little boys 2014-12-27 - Casey Creek, KY - Photo by Frances Salyers. "Merry Christmas to Daril; Santa was very good to him this year," his wife, Frances Salyers writes. Santa Claus delivered this play pretty to Daril, for being such a good boy this year. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

A Christmas Message in Miller Park 2014-12-27 - Campbellsville, KY - Photo by Larry Smith, Operations Manger, Shoreline Communications, FM 92.7 and FM 99.9.. One of the wonderful Christmas Lights of 2014 scenes is this one by Larry Smith, from Miller Park on the north side of Campbellsville, KY. "Miller Park is a wonderful place," Larry Smith said, "it's a reminder of one of South Central Kentucky's great leaders, Mayor Robert Miller," he said. "He was the towering figure of Taylor County in the 20th Century, and his impact went far beyond Campbellsville. For instance, there's a Robert Miller Drive, named in his honor, at the entrance to Lindsey Wilson's Sports Park." Smith noted too, that Miller's wife, Berniece (Chapman) Miller (d. 2000) grew up on Jamestown Hill in Columbia. His life is a reminder that often, despite historic and progressive administratives, a fickle electorate spurns its greatest. "Mayor Miller just happened to be in office when Fruit of the Loom pulled up stakes and turned its back on us. Mayor Miller did as much as anyone to keep them here, but he lost for the first time in the next election." - CM. See also: Robert L. Miller, Taylor Co., KY (1927-2011) Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Up close at the Historic Adair County Courthouse 2014-12-27 - 500 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. The Front Door of the Historic Adair County Courthouse according to research by Mike Watson, Adair County Historian. The year 2014 was a good one for the icon of Adair County. It was a year when an anchor tenant, Columbia Controls System, Kentucky's premier jail security company, moved in. It as a year when Citizen Mike Harris paid for new paint for the the benches, the lamp posts and the doors and more, to make it spiffy. It was a year when the Adair Heritage Association's "Ye Olde Christmas Gift Shop," proved it has a life of its own, with record setting crowds. And it was a year when the building proved its value as adjunct to another Adair County institution proved, it has a life of its own, the delightful and highly successful Farmers Market on the Square. 2015 ought to see more impressive gains, it can be imagined. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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