Grand Opening: Liberty Road General Store & Deli 2013-07-13 - 5097 Liberty Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Patty Edwards. Liberty Road General Store & Deli is having its Grand Opening today. Cars were already crowding the parking lot early this morning as the Darrell's BBQ was already set up to produce pulled pork plates with canned drinks for $5. The activities continue until 5pmCT, today, Saturday, July 13, 2013. The owner is Patty Smith Edwards. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Epicurean Kentuckian: Breakfast from FM2, mostly 2013-07-13 - Beautiful Joppa, Adair County, KY - Photo by Maury Lewis. We ate breakfast from the Farmers Market this morning: - June apples - easy and fast applesauce with cinnamon and sugar (the apples were tart) - Sausage - mild and very tasty - Little new potatoes- great for country fried - Onions- mixed with the potatoes - Tomatoes- large and very good The eggs were not from the farmers market but from the chickens up the hill from me. We will be having pork chops for lunch and they came from the farmers market also. We are eating good in the neighborhood. Melewi picture taken by me. (My first food picture.) Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Oscar is lost from the Greenhills area 2013-07-13 - Greenhills Road Area, Columbia, KY - Photo by Casi Absher. Lost dogOur dog Oscar escaped out of the backyard yesterday and we've been unable to locate him. We live in the Greenhills area. If anyone spots him they can call me at 270-634-1350. - Casi Absher Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

A gathering of Ralphs 2013-07-13 - Adair Annex, 424 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Not sure the collective term - A Rumble, a Roar, or a Recollection - of Ralphs, but there was one of them at the singing on the Square. Left, Ralph Waggener, who works his ministry through It's Just for a Smile News, and Bro. Ralph Foster, pastor of Bloomgton Chapel Brethren in Christ Church, compared notes and were negotiating a swap or something, whille Bro. Ralph - the Bearwalllow one - kept a watchful eye on "Simply Us" the Bluegrass Gospel Group, made up 75% of Bloomington Chapel members. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Bluegrass Gospel at the Farmers Market on the Square 2013-07-13 - Adair Annex Parking Lot, 424 Public Square, Columbia, KY . Simply Us a great group of Bluegrass Gospel singers provided background music for the Farmers Market on the Square. They are, from left Ronnie Dial on the mandolin, Terry Kerns, guitar; Steve Foster on the banjer; and Michelle Foster, on the bass. At the time, they were playing "I've Been So Blessed." They will sing until 12pmCT, when the market is scheduled to close. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Chris Patton: Doing a job he loves as well as the midway 2013-07-13 - Liberty Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Chris Patton who's home in Adair County with his job running the mouse game for Myers International Midways, is shown above in a job he loves equally well, being a poll office at the Eunice-Pellyton precinct. "I love meeting people," he said, "and in that way, my work with the amusement company is like my work at the polls." Above he's shown with his co-workers for the primary election May 22, 2007. From left: Betty Lou Wethington, Chris Patton, Vickie Thomas, and Karen Selch. Paired photo see also: Return of the native: Chris Patton Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Return of the native: Chris Patton 2013-07-13 - 413 Fairground Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. There are familiar faces with Myers International Midways the big amusement company on the Adair County Fair midway. And not just the people who've become a part of the community over the past fifty years. There are also people we see most of the year in Columbia, like Chris Patton, above. He's a graduate of Adair County High School and a permanent resident of Pellyton. He's on the road from April to October with Myers Amusement Co. He runs the Mouse Game and that's mostly Adair County, too. 16 of 17 of his mice were caught in his father's dairy barn on Spruce Pine Road, above Pellyton, and below Sanders Ridge. In fact, his Main Mouse, Oscar, is out of Adair County. Store-bought white mice just aren't the same quality, he says. "They won't run." Adair County Dairy Barn Mice will run. The one mouse not from Kentucky is from Atlanta. It will run, he says, but is absolutely no match for the thoroughbreds of micedom, Kentucky Breds, and the premium from the Commonwealth are native Adair Counties. The only explanation my be the perious life the Adair Counties having to evade quick six foot blue racers and cow snakes. If you're on the midway tonight, you'll see Chris. If you miss him there, you'll always see him come election time. He's a long time poll officer at for the Eunice-Pellyton Precinct. Paired photo see also: Chris Patton: Doing a job he loves as well as the midway Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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