North Laurel Middle School selling PRIDE rain barrels 2011-04-19 - 101 Johnson RD, London, KY - Photo by Cindy Lacky. PRIDE photo.. North Laurel Middle School PRIDE Club members posed with the PRIDE rain barrels they decorate. They are, from left: Hannah Robinson, Caitlin Gibson, Sierra Hone, Jordan Marcum, Ryan Jones, Michael Burke, Hannah Robbins, Reno Burns, Katlyn Helton, Jacquelynn Sears, Whitney McCowan, Destiny Sliter, Angela Sloan, Samantha Nalley, Tara Croft, Timothy Hurley, Justin Perkins, Justin Grimes and Dakota Mendez. Not pictured is Jason Fee, the NLMS art teacher who instructed and supervised the students during art classes to complete the water barrels. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Cane Valley perspectives: WGRB 2011-04-19 - Cane Valley, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener. It's all owing to where you are as awesomenity of the tallest structure in Adair County. At right, looking over the green gable of the Cane Valley Post office, WGRB's 1,100-plus mast doesn't seem so big. But up close, at the base of the tower atop television hill in Cane Valley, it's height is impressive. It's over twice the height of the next two tallest structures, the radio towers of WDCL, Radio Purdy (popularly and ignorantly called a Somerset station) and of the Mighty Big Dog, (popularly and benevolently termed Campbellsville) on the nar's at Purdy, KY. They both about 500 feet tall. After that, tall gets much, much shorter, with WHVE, greater Ozark, at 250 feet, and WAIN, on Liberty RD, under 200. This general information was supplied by Larry Smith, , who defers to colleague Alan Reed on technical matters. "He'll know," Smith said this morning. Reed has exact data like this in his little toe, according to local legend. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Ozark perfect dogwood 2011-04-19 - Russell Road at Ozark, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. There are maybe 10,000 perfect dogwoods in Adair Co., KY, this spring. This is just one of them, but the setting makes it very special, across a yellow meadow of mustard, at the old Reynolds place on Russell Road, now owned by Barbara Grider. The photo was taken Monday, April 18, 2011, from White Road, across Russell RD, to the tree line bordering the Louie B. Nunn Parkway. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Beauford Sanders has 900 baseball victories 2011-04-19 - Photo by Richard RoBards. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Hasty house: Wild swarm new, hastily placed, residence 2011-04-19 - East Steve Wariner DR, Russell Springs, KY - Photo by Shevawn Richards. This long unused hive was handily close by when the bees - now wild and maybe from earlier domestic bees which once worked here - returned and and found themselves among bee lovers, who provided the hastily placed habitat for headquarters for their very useful enterprise. Photo taken Monday, April 18, 2011, by Shevawn Richards Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Bee man Mike Foley coaxes bees into new home 2011-04-19 - East Steve Wariner DR, Russell Springs, KY - Photo by Shevawn Richards. Mike Foley, whose family kept bees and still has all the gear, suited up to transfer the swarm into a new home, a hive from the family's formerly active apiary. -Shevawn Richards Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Wild bees swarm at home where bees are loved 2011-04-19 - East Steve Wariner DR, Russell Springs, KY - Photo by Shevawn Richards. These now wild bees swarmed at the Richards home on East Steve Wariner DR in Russell Springs, KY, almost as if they knew that here abide bee lovers and bee loving neighbors. -Shevawn Richards. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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