Exciting, excited newcomers to the City Council 2010-12-07 - Photo by Ed Waggener. 116 Cambpellsville ST, Columbia, KY Bringing new energy and enthusiasm to City Council newly elected Councillors, Robert Flowers, front left, and Jim Hadley, front right, were invited by Mayor Pat Bell to speak to the Council meeting last night. For both, it's a first time as elected officials. Flowers brings a strong financial background to the Council and he's familiar with the operations of local government. He served for many years as Chairman of the Columbia Utilities Commission. Jim Hadley, who called Columbia "the finest city in the world," is a successful entrepreneur and serves on the Columbia-Adair County Economic Development Authority. In back, left, Councillor June Parson, who has been an outspoken advocate for council oversight on City Finances, and, right back, Columbia Police Chief Jason Cross, who succeeded now incoming Mayor Mark D. Harris. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Frost Flower Feather Duster at Bub Polston's place 2010-12-07 - Photo by Bub Polston. Liberty RD, Columbia, KY Bub Polston captured this wonderful Frost Flower at his place on KY 206/Liberty RD, in Adair County, KY. For wont of a better name, it's been dubbed a Frost Flower Feather Duster, but maybe a better label could be applied. Bub makes an historical remark about the two extraordinary photos he posted, "It's the first time I ever saw frost flowers on my place before." Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Frostflower crop fall 2010: Trillium at Bub Polston's place 2010-12-07 - Photo by Bub Polston. Liberty RD, Columbia, KY Bub Polston captured this first of his type Frostflower on his farm on Liberty RD. It's the first Trllium shaped Frost Flower seen on CM. It proves and emphasizes a point made by Frost Flower expert Billy Joe Fudge: Like snowflakes, no two frost flowers are alike, and the memory of a single form only lives on in photographs. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Christmas Lights 2010: Grissom-Martin Funeral Home 2010-12-07 - Photo by Ed Waggener. 200 Campbellsville ST, Columbia, KY One of Columbia's most beautiful structures, especially at Christmas time, is Grissom-Martin Funeral Home. The historic building at the corner of Campbellsville and Reed Streets, has gained new prominence with the emphasis on and higher pedestrian traffic, in the last year, at the intersection, which now is enhanced by the new Adair County Judicial Center, the facelift at City Hall, in addition to Grissom-Martin Funeral Home. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Charles Grimsley honored for years of service 2010-12-07 - Photo by Ed Waggener. 116 Campbellsville ST, Columbia, KY Happy warrior Charles Grimsley, right, was honored by the Columbia City Council with a plaque by Mayor Pat Bell for Grimsley's six terms as City Councillor. Grimsley left issuing his "Bucket List" of items he hoped would be improved. Among his achievements, the two greatest may be his advocacy of first, a City Parks and Recreation Board, and just this year, a merged City-County Parks Board, which is scheduled to begin operations in January 2011. Grimsley's advocacy for streamlined government included support of the highly successful merger of the Columbia Water and Sewer Departments into the Columbia-Adair County Utilities Commission. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Joe Moore receives plaque for service. Will he be back? 2010-12-07 - Photo by Ed Waggener. 201 Campbellsville ST, Columbia, KY Joe Moore, left, left the Council last night with a quip, "I'll say it for the last time, 'I move we adjourn,' and earlier, above, with a twinkle as he accepted a plaque for his six terms of service. Last hurrah, or not? The twinkle may mean that everybody's most popular Councillor may be back. It happened once before, when for one day he was out of office. In 2004 he came in seventh. But Greg Thomas, deciding between a choice of being a councillor or Adair County Emergency Management Director, chose the latter. Joe Moore was his successor then. Could it happen again. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Councillor Edwin Taylor recognized for years of service 2010-12-07 - Photo by Ed Waggener. 116 Campbellsville ST, Columbia, KY Councillor Edwin Taylor, left was recognized for his three terms of service, 2005-2010, with a special plaque at the City Council meeting last night, Monday, December 6, 2010. Councillor Taylor was elected to the City Council after retiring as Columbia Chief of Police. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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