Adair County Library leaders with Mayor Hoots 2025-04-16 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Proclaiming Library Week are leaders in the Adair County Public Library, Genealogy and History Center and the City of Columbia. Standing in back, from left, are Ernie Bennett, Serena Corbin, Beth Grant, Michele Watkins, Anita Riddle and Wendy Burt. Seated from left are Mike Watson, Mayor Pam Hoots and Library Director Lee Ann Jessee. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

New members of Sigma Tau Delta at LWC 2025-04-16 - Columbia, KY - Photo courtesy Lindsey Wilson College. Lindsey Wilson College English faculty members Rachel Carr, Kendall Sewell and Karolyn Steffens join the college's new members of Sigma Tau Delta, the international honor society for students of English, on Monday, April 14, in the Lucretia C. Begley Gallery of the W.W. Slider Humanities Center. From left: Carr; Morgan Bryant '26 of Shelbyville, Kentucky; Jesse LaGrange '26 of Burkesville, Kentucky; and Chloe Taylor '26 of Russell Springs, Kentucky; Steffans; and Sewell. Not pictured: new member Lilly Streeval '26 of Columbia. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Birds of Kentucky: Mute Swan 2025-04-16 - Shelbyville, KY - Photo by Pen. A mute swan spotted on Lake Shelby this week. Mute swans are non-migratory, but occasionally end up outside their established range due to weather or food scarcity. According to the Wikipedia entry for Cygnus olor, "The mute swan is one of the heaviest extant flying birds." Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Special Visitor at Columbia Police Department 2025-04-16 - Columbia, KY - Photo from Adam Cravens. Kentucky's Sasquatch made an appearance in and around the Columbia Police Department on Tuesday, thanks to The Adair County Sportsman Club. For a chance to see the cryptid in person, the Sportsman Club will be hosting a special Big Foot Archery Challenge on Saturday, June 21, 2025. Click 'read more' for details. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Johnson and Bryant interview Ruben Santiago-Hudson 2025-04-15 - Columbia, KY - Photo courtesy Lindsey Wilson College. Lindsey Wilson College college students Leeshawn Johnson '26, a theatre major from Louisville, Kentucky, and Morgan Bryant '26, an English major from Shelbyville, Kentucky, interview award-winning actor, director and writer Ruben Santiago-Hudson Monday evening in W.W. Slider Humanities Center Recital Hall. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

LWC Students Zoom with Ruben Santiago-Hudson 2025-04-15 - Columbia, KY - Photo courtesy Lindsey Wilson College. Lindsey Wilson College theatre professor Robert Brock, standing, welcomes award-winning actor, director and writer Ruben Santiago-Hudson to a conversation with Lindsey Wilson students and faculty members Monday evening in W.W. Slider Humanities Center Recital Hall. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Red Sky at Night 2025-04-15 - Fairplay, KY - Photo by Veronica Arnold. Veronica writes, "On Sunday evening I took this photo of the sunset. It wasn't quite red but peachy. The following day, Monday, was such a lovely day... I guess the old adage was correct. I didn't go sailing but if I had wanted to... it would have been perfect! " Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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