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.

What's looking back in winter 2014-12-27 - From Five Star, 802 Jamestown Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. There is an ocean side room in a hotel, bayside window in a restaurant, equivalent at the Five Star on Jamestown Street - now serving $2.099 gasoline to become a very, very busy place. This view of near Downtown Columbia, over Office Park, has a central focus of the Columbia-Union Presbyterian Church - up close and from this distance one of Adair County's most beautiful. Directly to the right, the tall two story structure is a two and one half story house with a wonderful history, and a view not only of Downtown Columbia, but of Upper Jamestown Street as well. In historical perspective, the view from the Traylor House toward the photographer would have been, in the early decades of the 1940s, "out in the country." So far, in fact, that JIM, if memory is correct, tells of the time the Columbia Fire Department refused to put out a fire at the location because it was outside their jurisdiction - .8 tenths of a mile for the historic Adair County's Courthouse's Front Door according to no less an authority than Mike Watson. The photo is just one reason - please don't boo or throw things at me - why winter is my favorite season to see things. From the ground, where I like to stay, so much is revealed about the lay of the land and what's been hiding in the trees. Winter is a time to gain perspective. - EW. Paired photol; See also - Up close at the Historic Adair County Courthouse Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Dalton Coffey, Adair County, KY (1926-2014)< 2014-12-26 - 200 Campbellsville Street, Collumbia, KY - Photo from Grissom-Martin Funeral Home, Columbia, KY. Dalton Coffey, Adair County, KY (1926-2014) Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Red Brick Center for the performing arts? 2014-12-26 - Burkesville Side, Red Brick Recording Studio - Photo by Ed Waggener. Couldn't figure this one out. It look like five couples of phantom shadow dancers. Photo taken Friday morning, December 26, 2014, at the time a beautiful sun shiny day - reminiscent of the days in 1977, before the Inauguration of Judge James Brock and Mayor Coy Downey a few days later in January 1978, when Collumbia was he center of attention in all the Commonwealth. Inauguration Day was beautiful, too. But in less than a week, it snowed and there came one of the coldest winters on record. There was talk of a new ice age, because the scenario repeated for two more winters. Anyone remember? - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Gas $2.099 at Five Start 26 Dec 2014 2014-12-26 - Five Star, 101 Hudson Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. At 10:05amCT, Fri 26 Dec 2014, gas was $2.099 per gallon. Anyone think it will go below $2 here? If it does, when? and how low will it go before climbing again? Respond with the "Comments" button with this photo. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Doberman missing from Robertson Road, GRL area Adair Co., KY 2014-12-26 - Robertson Road, Holmes Bend Area, Adair County, KY - Photo by Curtis Grant. Reported missing 9:45amCT, Fri, 26 Dec 2014 Reported Found 22hrs 56 minutes later, 7:41amCT, Sat 27 2014 Please help us find my dad's dog. She is a 5 year old black Doberman with cropped ears and tail. She was last seen in the Robertson Road in the Holmes Bend Area of Adair Co., KY. She is a big sweet heart, doesn't have a mean bone in her. Any help finding would be appreciated. You can call me at 270-250-5227 or Dad at 270-634-1070. Thanks, - Curtis Grant Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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