Happy birthday Mayor and Assistant Mayor 2023-07-10 - Downtown Columbia, KY - Photo from CM archives. Everyone at City Hall joins family and friends wishing Columbia Mayor Pamela Hoots a very happy birthday Monday, June 10, 2023! Her assistant Jakky is celebrated right along with her. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Little Free Library growing 2023-07-10 - Downtown Columbia, KY - Photo by Jada Atwood. Lainey and Wyatt brought books for the Little Free Library beside Columbia's City Hall recently. Next month it is hoped to offer a Little Free Library for kids books only. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Kentucky Color: My Homeplace 2023-07-09 - Adair Co., KY - Photo from Billy Joe Fudge. Billy Joe writes, "My Dad Ordell bought my maternal great-great-grandfather James A. Furkin's homeplace in 1955." This photo, taken in front of the house in 1964 or 1965, shows from left to right, "Margareta Robinson, wife of James Elwood Robinson, Janice Robinson, Aunt Myrtle Robinson, Ma Fudge, Uncle Gordie Campbell, Aunt Mable Campbell, me, Duke, Ma Stotts, Bert Stotts, my Dad and Mom, Ordell and Zelma. And no, we didn't name our cats!" Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Birds of Kentucky: Canada Geese 2023-07-09 - Central Kentucky - Photo by Pen. A flock of Canada Geese basking in a misty morning sunrise. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Kentucky Color: My Homeplace 2023-07-09 - Adair Co., KY - Photo by Billy Joe Fudge. The layout of the house allows for very flexible access for either or both a boarding house and or for adult children and their families. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Signs may be added to mark truck route around bypass 2023-07-09 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Among ideas discussed at the downtown traffic meeting at City Hall were possible additions of signs to help indicate the best truck route around Columbia. It will be especially helpful as drivers deal with the square being closed to through traffic from 7pmCT to 7amCT nightly from Tuesday, July 11, through Tuesday, July 18, 2023, as work begins to remove the wings from the historic Adair County Courthouse. The top photo shows signage looking towards downtown from the connection of Hwy 55 N and the Veterans Memorial Bypass. The bottom photo shows signage looking towards downtown before the Bypass crosses Hwy 61/Burkesville Road. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Rose Kennedy in Adair County News in 1960 2023-07-08 - Columbia, KY - Photo at the Trabue Russell House by Linda Waggener. Among the historical documents on the walls of the Trabue Russell House is this news of Rose Kennedy, mother of then presidential candidate John F. Kennedy, when she brought his national campaign to Adair County, September 34, 1960. The event, a tea, was held at Cornelia Hughes' Motel on East 80 just past Circle R in Columbia. Hosted by local Democratic women, the regional event saw almost 1,000 women meet the future President's mother. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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