Happy 90th Birthday Jean Waggener Cravens! 2020-05-05 - Indianapolis, IN - Photo from family collection. Wilma Jean Waggener Cravens, Columbia native from Indianapolis, is celebrating 90 years of life today, Tuesday, May 5, 2020. Her brother and sisters, Ralph, Annette and Fay, and all the family from Adair to Indy, love how special she is and send very, very best wishes to her! Her daughter Beth Ann put it best when she wrote, "She has always been my sunshine and I am so very grateful that she is my mom. She is loved by so many people. "She has many grandchildren, great grandchildren, and even some great great grandchildren, but many people call her grandma, even those who are not related. She is one of those rare people that illuminates the room with light and love when she walks into it. "She still continues to shine on each of us lucky enough to know her. She loves with all her heart and when you get a hug from Jean Cravens you can sure feel the love." Jean is pictured at left with her husband Paul Cravens, in the center photo with her four children Sue, Don, Phil and Beth Ann, and Jean at right. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Birds of Kentucky: Red Bellied Woodpecker 2020-05-04 - Casey Co., KY - Photo by Michael Brown. Photographer Michael Brown captured this photo of a Woody Woodpecker on his farm in southern Casey County. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Bringing the outside inside 2020-05-04 - McKinley Lane, Columbia, KY - Photo by Mitzi Bault. Because of the cancer medicines she takes, Mitzi Bault can't be in the sun much for now. She sent this photo of her beautiful Peonies with the message, "I had to bring the outside inside." Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Scenic Adair County: Silo Sunrise 2020-05-04 - Adair Co., KY - Photo by Tommy Bailey. Photographer Tommy Bailey captured this photo of the sun rising over the White Farm in Eastern Adair County this morning, May 4, 2020. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Postcards from LWC: Ponzetti and Nakamura 2020-05-04 - Columbia, KY - Photo courtesy Lindsey Wilson College. By Dakota Smith Hello, Adair County. Today, we have a very special segment of #postcardsfromlindsey. At left, meet Salome Sposetti Ponzetti. She is from Argentina and will be graduating in May of 2023. Her major is biology, and she is on the tennis team. A fun fact about her is that she has two toes literally together on her left foot. "They liked so much I guess that they never split out." She is very much looking forward to making some friends and learning interesting things about her major! Can't wait to meet you, Salome! At right, meet Hanako Nakamura. She is from Tokyo, Japan and her major at her university right now is Regional Development Studies, but she wants to major in Women Studies at Lindsey! A fun fact about her is that her picture was taken in Guam! Hanako is very much looking forward to having wonderful friends at Lindsey! Can't wait to meet you, Hanako! Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

School project becomes gifts to help others 2020-05-04 - Columbia, KY - Photo from Deb Waddell. Tristian Sinclair is pictured creating and wearing his Performance Based Project which he turned in at ACMS April 30, 2020. His school project resulted in help for family and community with needed masks to help curb the spread the dangerous Coronavirus that changed school to home based in spring semester of 2020. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Honors given to Adair County's Principals 2020-05-04 - Columbia, KY - Photo Thanks to Deb Waddell at ACMS who invited us to visit the school\\\'s Facebook page. Happy Principal Appreciation Day! Friday, May 1, 2020 was Principal Appreciation Day to honor Principals who guide the academic success and set the tone for their schools. Teachers and staff made a card for the four Adair County Schools leaders with their compliments to, from left, Ms. Debbie Bradshaw, Principal of Adair County Primary Center (ACPC); Ms. Sommer Brown, Interim Principal of Adair County Elementary School (ACES); Ms. Alma Rich, Principal of Adair County Middle School (ACMS); and Mr. Troy Young, Principal of Adair County High School (ACHS). Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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