Gradyville Flooding March 18, 2013: Over the road 2013-03-18 - Old Gradyville Road, Gradyville, KY - Photo by Jim Whitehurst. Headed North on Old Gradyville Road. Big Creek has burst its banks and flooded the bridge. - Sharon Whitehurst Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Mr. Rick Wilson speaks to ACHS 9th graders 2013-03-18 - ACHS, 526 Indian Drive, Columbia KY - Photo by Jennifer Myers. Mr. Rick Wilson, Adair County Jailer, visited Adair County High School today, Monday March 18, 2013. He spoke to Mr. Bryant and Mrs. Mantooth's 9th graders about his career as an elected jailer, and gave them a virtual tour of getting pulled over and put into jail. He discussed with them career options in the field of criminal justice, and also encouraged them to make good decisions. - Jennifer Myers Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Adair County connections at C/TC Chamber meeting 2013-03-18 - Campbellsville, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener . An Adair County connection or two was made at last week's monthly Campbellsville-Taylor County Chamber of Commerce luncheon. The guest speaker was former Columbian Audrey Tayse Haynes, Secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, and she is pictured here with former Columbian Ed Cheatham who is Major Account Manger with Windstream. Tayse also visited with her Adanta connections including Adair Countian Patty Page. Haynes, Cheatham and Page, along with Campbellsville University's John Chowning, all remembered having worked for Waggener-Walker Newspapers when they were young and getting job starts in Columbia in the 1970s. Pete Walker was remembered for having trained them, if they could keep up with him for a day, and for his unforgettable three-point capsule basic instructions for good photo taking: "get outside, up close, butt to the sun." Tayse spoke to the Chamber audience as if they were a group of close friends (many of whom are), modestly as always, about her journey to her present position and of the hard times many of Kentucky's children are having today. - Linda Waggener Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Raging flood waters along Knifley Road 2013-03-18 - KY 551, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Flood waters were raging in Butler Branch along Knifley Road. While still a few feet below the highway, the waters had cut off the entrance to the Taylor home across the branch this morning at around 10amCT, Monday, March 18, 2013. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Thief or thieves return ACHD Truck No. 7, creased 2013-03-18 - Service Road, Columbia, KY - Photo CM staff photo. This 1999 Dodge Pickup stolen from the Adair County Highway Department Garage on Service Road, was returned with this bed skin crease, and damage to the side as well. The vandalism was done sometime over the Friday-Monday, March 15-18, 2013, weekend. It was discovered this morning. One truck was still unaccounted for this morning. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Colin Dykes in state A-Team competition 2013-03-18 - ACMS, 322 Gen. John Adair Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo by Margaret Taylor. 7th grade student, Collin Dykes, represented Adair County Middle School this weekend in competition. He had 2nd place in regional competition in the area of arts and humanities. Sherry Stotts Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Tractor slide injures Adair Farmer 2013-03-18 - Purdy Community, Adair County, KY - Photo by Joe Collins. The tractor involved in the Saturday afternoon, March 16, 2013 rescue of an Adair County farmer came to a rest in the edge of a woods. The missing skid marks have led to the theory that the tractor may have flipped to its resting place, making the rest of the story all the more remarkable, with the farmer's ability to climb by himself up a steep hillside halfway to the place from which the helicopter carried him to Lexington. The steering wheel was flattened and the seat was dislodged and straw on the lift joints suggest a flip, as well. Equally remarkable is that the time between the accident and the time the driver was in air to treatment at one of the state's tertiary trauma centers was approximately one hour, a time so short it would have been unthinkable in Adair County just a few decades ago. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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