(Ad Photo) Fireplace for sale 2018-06-22 - Adair County, KY - Photo by seller, Tommy Bailey. Details while available at this link: CM For Sale Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

State warns to use commonsense as water activities increase 2018-06-22 - Madison County, KY - Photo from Kentucky Cabinet for Environment & Energy. A HAB on Lake Reba in Richmond, KY in 2016. Holiday water recreation tips have been issued from Public Health, Division of Water. DOW and DPH recommend avoiding areas with Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs). Blue-green algae occur naturally in the environment and are a vital part of the ecosystem. HABs arise when there are excess nutrients (phosphorus and nitrogen), sunny conditions, warm temperatures and low-flow or low-water conditions. But the state agency says, "By using common sense, your risks of experiencing water-derived health issues can be greatly decreased." Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Birds of Kentucky: Brown Bird visits. Cardinal? 2018-06-22 - Columbia, Adair County, KY - Photo by ColumbiaMagazine.com photo. Looks like a small Cardinal female, but the color is different from any we've seen, in any personal meeting or among the pictures in an online search. Anyone have authoritative ID. It is cute. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Trees of KY - Japanese Maple a family member of many moods 2018-06-22 - Fortune Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Pen Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. It's a foreigner, we know, planted with the original landscape on our home. It has now been reliable member of our family for over half of all our lives. It has many moods, this one, with its deep green, drenched and dripping, cues the promise of summer bounty. No, it's not a native tree, but it has lived here long enough to seem so. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Adanta owned home Paz-Holley Project update 2018-06-22 - Kellyville-Coburg area of Adair County, KY - Photo submitted by Rick Wilson, Chair, Paz Holley project. The Paz Holley project, thanks to a recent generous donation from Mr. Alan Parnell (Mr. P) was half-way to its goal. Rick Wilson posted on June 5, 2018 of $108,000 need to purchase this home in the Kellyville-Coburg area of Adair County Donations for the project can be sent to: Joy Ministries, P. O. Box 114, Columbia, KY 42728. Please write "Paz Holley Project" in the memo section of your tax deductible check. Related story Paz Holley Project at halfway point to goal of $108,000 Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Hord, Warren, Miller and Rager, elected as officers 2018-06-21 - Campbellsville Middle School, Campbellsville, KY - Photo by Calen McKinney, Public Information Officer, Campbellsville Independent Schools. Four of the five students elected to serve as officers at next year's National Beta Convention are from Kentucky schools. They are, from left, seventh-grader Chase Hord from Campbellsville Middle School, who was elected secretary; Mary Claire Warren of Eastern Elementary School, who was elected reporter; Aiden Miller of Barren County Middle School, who was elected president; and Hannah Rager of Muhlenberg North Middle School, who was elected vice president. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Chase Hord to serve as national Beta secretary 2018-06-21 - Campbellsville Middle School, Campbellsville, KY - Photo by Calen McKinney, Public Information Officer, Campbellsville Independent Schools. CMS seventh-grader Chase Hord, who was elected to serve as national Beta secretary at next year's convention, poses for a photo with his family members. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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