Weather Forecast from Tucker's Station 2012-11-07 - 1535 Bull Run Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Barbara Armitage. A Mild Winter - The data is in - as this nearly all brown Wooly Worm shows, it will be a mild winter. - Barbara Armitage Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Intersection proves bellwether for elections 2012-11-07 - Pike Pike, Greater Biiss, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. File photo. Adair County Emergency Management Director Greg Thomas kept an eye on Victoria Pike as she saw to it that the County Storm Warning Siren was being installed properly on her property in this photo taken a few weeks ago. Miz Victoria was elated at the outcome of the election last night, noting that candidates with signs on her busy Greater Bliss corner were almost all successful, including the one whose sign is in the background, Adair Countian Judy Vance. She's also celebrating the write-in victory of Bliss favorite son Jimmy Bennett, who was too busy with crops to file as the fourth regular candidate for the Adair County Soil Conservation district, but won as a write-in candidate, maybe the first write in candidate ever to win in Kentucky. That notion is still being checked out. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

General Election 2012: Authenticating write-ins 2012-11-07 - Adair Annex, 424 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. The only slowdown in the election night tally didn't live up to its advance billing. The count did take longer than on similar nights in this age of modern electronics, but write-in votes were authenticated quickly and with hardly a one rejected by the election officials. From left, above Are Adair County Clerk Deputies Casi Melton and Melissa Fletcher (behind monitor), and Adair County Court Sheila Blair. Standing are Sheriff and Elections Board Member Harrison Moss; and Election board member and nephew of Paul Barry Hayes and Michael Morris, Ben Loy; while Board of Elections Member Billy Curry kept an eye on the situation, from his vantage point off camera. Write-ins did well, with one, James "Jimmy" Bennett, Mary Ritchie's son, winning a seat on the Adair County Soil and Water Conservation Board, with 134 write-in votes, a few less than received by Brent Baker (3,224), Judith Goodin (2,888), and Larry Keith Burton (2,381). Well-organized, though unscuccessful, were mounted by write in school board candidates Rhonda Cox in Division 4, and Bill Steele in Division 5. Cox lost to incumbent Adair County School Board Chairman Floyd Burton, 696-489, Steele lost to Incumbent Mike Harris 935-389. Though a bit more difficult, new paper ballots, filled in before the ballot is scanned, give write-in candidacies much greater chance of success. Talk in the county room was that no write-in candidate had ever won in Kentucky. If that's so, Jimmy Bennett's dramatic victory for Adair County Soil and Conservation Commissioner may go into the World Record Book of Guinnesses. Anyway, they are celebrating in his home, Bliss, KY, where supporters were jubilant, according to Bliss Political Potentate Miz Vickie Pike. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

General Election 2012: Maintaining decorum 2012-11-07 - Adair Annex, 424 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Adair County Deputy Sheriff Aaron Rainwater assisted Sheriff Harrison Moss and Adair County Board of Elections Commissioner Billy Curry, right seeing that the election count went smoothly, in this photo taken Tuesday night, November 6, 2012. It did go smoothly, with only a slight delay to authenticate write-ins. The photo was taken Election Night, Tueday, November 6, 2012. -EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Portentous red geraniums 2012-11-07 - Downtown Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Although Adair County, KY, was much more generous to the President-elect in 2012 than in 1860, when then President-elect Abraham Lincoln received one vote, the red geraniums in the Fountain Plaza planters and at the courthouse seemed to portend a Republican landside in Adair County, KY, where Mitt Romney received 5,841 votes, 76.86% of the vote, to President and President-elect Barack H. Obama's 1,660 votes. The photo also is a reminder of one of top City Council vote-getter's pet project's getting the confusing road direction signs for KY 80 and KY 55 changed. Charles Grimsley a Downtown Columbia proponent, has asked that the signs, which too frequently mislead traffic to the Square to head the wrong way, be changed. - Ed Waggener Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Division 2: School Board Member elect Quinn Lasley 2012-11-07 - Adair Annex, 424 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Quinn "Tweeta" Lasley won a three-way school board race in Division 2, receiving 53.71% of the vote, with 565 votes to incumbent Board Member Marsha Walker's 392 votes, and Charles Miller's 9.03%. Above she is pictured awaiting the final tally in the counting room in the basement of the Adair Annex, 424 Public Square, Columbia, KY, though at this point the outcome was not in question. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Judge-elect Judy Vance, on the way to another interview 2012-11-07 - Adair Annex, 424 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Judge-elect Judy Vance was the most sought-after interview, post vote count at the Adair County Annex, after the very large vote she received in Adair County, to win the 29th Judicial District Circuit Court Judgeship by a vote of 6,657 to 5,803 combined votes in Adair and Casey Counties. Wright carried his home Casey County by 1,178 votes. Vance won in Adair County by 2,032. Above, after an interview for the Community Voice newspaper, she was on her way to radio interview in the County Judge Executive's office. (Related photo, before votes all in:The Winners: Judge-elect Vance Command Post) Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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