CWC Home Tour 2012: The Willis and Traci Pooler home 2012-11-18 - 235 West Park Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo by George Kolbenschlag. The Pooler Family Home, 235 West Park Drive (Bing Map), Columbia, KY Willis and Traci Pooler with their three sons say welcome to their home built in 2003. This house of four bedrooms and three and half bathrooms offers numerous quality features such as a family room with a vaulted ceiling and an open layout second floor. Visitors will enjoy the special and novel Christmas decorations created by Traci, dean of admissions at Lindsey Wilson. Willis is athletic director at the college. Their three sons, Tanner, 17, Jacob 15 and Lucas, 9, help this house be a comfortable home lived in day in and day out accompanied by their one year old pet, a Lhasa Poo, Luci. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

CWC Home Tour 2012: The David and Cathy Martin Home 2012-11-18 - 506 Young Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by George Kolbenschlag. The Martin Family Home, 506 Young Street (Bing Map), Columbia, KY David and Cathy Martin moved into a new home in 1994. Seven years later, an addition gave more room to the original and recently a major renovation brought the house an outstanding different inside appearance. Walls were removed to meld the kitchen, now filled with needed cabinetry and counter surface, with the large living room. The centerpiece is a newly surfaced stone fireplace - perfect for hanging the five Christmas stockings for David, Cathy, McKenzie, Blake and Blake's wife, Haley. The dining area now is large enough for great family gatherings. The bright white new woodwork outlines the beautiful colors selected for the walls. Please enter the door beside the garage. Parking is allowed on the lawn if the soil is dry. Benson and Webster, wagging their tails, will make you feel most welcome. Their second "home" is the Grissom-Martin Funeral Home, a building that was constructed in 1818 by an early merchant in Columbia, Elijah Creel, who with his brother, was the founder of Creelsboro, a major trading center on the Cumberland River in the 1800s. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Birds of Kentucky: Broad Shouldered Hawk with light lunch 2012-11-18 - Town Creek, Columbia, KY - Photo by Pen. A Broad-Shouldered Hawk enjoys a light Sunday dinner of fresh garter snake in the gnarly catalpa tree which served just fine as a dining room. Pen spotted the bird from the house and took several opportunity shots through a sliding glass window with a point and shoot. If one cares to enlarge for a closer look, the raptor is holding the slightly coiled prey with its talons. The hawk seems a less finicky eater than crows, who tend to surgically remove one delicacy, the snake's liver, and squander the rest of a perfectly good - for a hawk - meal. Hawks find plenty of good eating in garter snakes, which are plentiful along the creeks and caves of Columbia. See related photo: Birds of Kentucky: Broad Shouldered Hawk, hiding Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Campbellsville Fire enter burning Broadway BP store 2012-11-18 - 509 Broadway, Campbellsville, KY - Photo by Larry Smith, The WAVE, FM 92.7 radio. Smoke was still heavy from the fire at the 509 Broadway BP Store, when Campbellsville Firefighters entered the front of the store. The fire occurred at 2:36pmET, Saturday, November 17, 2012, after the driver of a vehicle with five occupants crashed into the building from its Jackson Street side. The driver was taken to Taylor Regional Hospital. None of the passengers were injured. Also on the scene were the Campbellsville/Taylor County EMS, the Campbellsville Police Department, and the Taylor County Sheriff's office. - Larry Smith, Operations Manager, The Big Dawg, FM 99.9. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Welcome, Braxton Maddox Gribbins! 2012-11-18 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Innocent Bystander. Braxton Maddox Gribbins was born October 15, 2012 at 5:37pm weighing 8 pounds 8 ounces. He was 20 1/4 inches long. His parents are April (Janes) Gribbins and Cody Gribbins. His maternal grandparents are Todd and Teresa Janes and paternal grandparents are Robert (Bobby) and Barbara Gribbins. He is welcomed home by his two cousins, Abbigale and Aubrey Janes. - Melissa Stone Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Ready for the Marine Corps Ball 2012-11-17 - Greenville, NC - Photo by Sheila Willis. Columbia, KY natives Lance Corporal Andrew Willis and Tiffany Bryant are ready for the Marine Corps Ball. The 3-2 celebrates the Marines 237th birthday tonight, Saturday, November 17, 2012, in Greenville, NC. Sheila Willis Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

A farewell to Blue 2012-11-17 - Little Cake, KY - Photo by Wendy Gousha. Today is a quiet day on Little Cake and Neat Hollow. I had to say goodbye to my best friend and most loyal companion. - Wendy Gousha ReadMore: A Farewell to Blue Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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