Adair County News

Anyone have knowledge of Beard Refuge near Coburg ? Among the many inquiries about Columbia and Adair County and the Day Trip opportunities using Columbia as the starting point, Sue Stivers fields most with her store of knowledge of the area or with a flick of her computer mouse to find the answer, but a question about the "Beard Refuge near ...

Bulletin: Cornelison gets a deer! This just in! Click here for 2009 Deer Hunt album By Frances Salyers The great Adair County Deer Hunter Corneilison has finally bagged a deer! Phillip Cornelison, Gradyville, KY, bagged his first deer, a beautiful 9 pointer and sends a photo to prove that he can give his Uncle Rerun a pointer or two.

Ahouse on Tompkinsville Road was destroyed by fire late Saturday night. The Temple Hill, East Barren and Haywood volunteer fire departments worked together to fight the fire that broke out at 2712 Tompkinsville Road just after 11 p.m. Fire crews were able to contain and extinguish the flames, but the house was heavily damaged, according to a Barren ...

Special to ColumbiaMagazine.com Dr. Ronald P. Rogers awarded prestigious KAC Lifetime Achievement Award The 93rd Annual Kentucky Association of Chiropractors Convention was held this fall in Bowling Green, KY and recognized Columbia's own with the association's most prestigious award.

By Paul B. Hayes Editor Experience Works, a national, charitable, community-based organization that helps senior citizens get the training they need to find jobs in the local communities, has selected an Adair County resident as its 2009 Participant of the Year for the state of Kentucky.

Supt. Darrell Treece: Better schools for Adair County students SCHOOL DISTRICT FUNDING: First in series of four articles on funding for the local schools.

A Barren County teenager accused of shooting his father to death appeared in Barren Circuit Court Monday for a status conference.

ACHS Band returns from 2009 State to triumphant welcome The Adair County Marching Band returned to a triumphant welcome with cars lining the Square and fans waving placards yesterday at 12:20pmCT. The band, in its first year under the direction of Tom Case, will be the only Kentucky High School Band appearing in the prestigious 2009 Macy's ...

Adair, Russell and Boyle County make it to State band finals With Shamarie Claiborne update from on the road Jo Ann Curry has just written at 3:21pmCT, that Adair County, Russell County, and Boyle County have all made it to the State Finals of the KMEA Kentucky State Marching Band Championships in Louisvllle.

Pickett's Chapel UMC supper and auction is Nov. 7, 2009 Pickett's Chapel United Methodist Church, 3047 Portland RD, Columbia KY, in the Milltown/Portland area of Adair County, will hold a soup, chili and bean supper and fundraising auction on Saturday, November 7, 2009, with the meal starting at 5pmCT and the auction at 6pmCT.

On August 1st I55 Mission, a nonprofit agency, opened a new emergency housing shelter in Cane Valley.

Remembering Kathy Grant: She was so many thing to so many About: Kathy Jean Gaskins Grant 55 Adair County KY To ColumbiaMagazine.com: Kathy was a good friend of mine as long as I can remember.

In the News a century ago today By "Jim With the election close at hand, the October 27, 1909 edition of the Adair County News was, as my mother was wont to say, "skase, mighty skase" on news and long on political posturing.

A former Kentucky State Police Trooper and two of his relatives were indicted Thursday in connection with an arson in Adair County.

Another H1N1 Death Reported Lake Cumberland Area Location of second death approximately 70 miles from Adair County, KY By Amy Tomlinson, LCDHD The Lake Cumberland District Health Department is reporting the death of a McCreary County resident as the second H1N1 influenza-associated death in the area.

The Giles Society provides opportunities for education with respect to literature, authors, and writers We're visiting in the log house on Spout Springs Road in Adair County just down the road from Knifley , the place where Janice Holt Giles found her writing home, her place of place, her peace of peace.

The stories and photos on this page first appeared on ColumbiaMagazine.com on Monday, October 26, 2009.

Treat Fair at Mt. Zion Church of God, October 31, 2009 Mt. Zion Church of God , 1640 Eastridge Cemetery RD .

Bro. Randy Brown in revival at Melson Ridge Separate Baptist Melson Ridge Separate Baptist Church, 5250 Hwy 900 Road, Columbia, KY, in the Melson Ridge Community of Adair County, KY is having a revival October, 16, 17, and 18, 2009, at 6:30pm each evening, with Brother Randy Brown preaching.

Swine flu update: Taylor Co., KY has 24 cases since Aug. 1, 2009 Kentucky Health Alert has a story dated Wednesday, October 14, 2009, which reported the 6th Swine Flu death in Kentucky , and Scott County's second.