Adair County, KY

A contraband and drug trafficking investigation by the Columbia Police Department in neighboring Adair County came to an end on Monday. The investigation began back on May 4th of this year when officers were notified by Adair County Regional Jail after suspected narcotics were found by deputy jailers there. After...

On 8-6-22 at 11:57 pm the Adair County Sheriffs Office initiated a traffic stop on Pelly Lane north of Columbia. After roadside investigation a search of the vehicle resulted in the location of a large amount of methamphetamine, suspected cocaine, drug paraphernalia, along with a handgun. Arrested was James Burris,...

From Judge Executive Gale Cowan: Adair County Fiscal Court met in regular session on Monday, August 8th, 2022. This was a very productive meeting that will benefit the citizens of Adair County in many ways for a long time. The Old Glensfork Road Bridge project had final approval tonight to...

The Adair County Sheriff’s Office arrested Christopher Helm, 39, of Columbia after a lengthy investigation. Helm was arrested after Sheriff’s Office Deputy Tracy McCarol secured an indictment for his arrest, stemming from a theft. That theft occurred at a farm off of Milltown Church Road, where a fuel...

The Kentucky Agricultural Development Board recently approved $190,000 in Agricultural Development Funds for the 2022 Adair County Agricultural Investment Program (or known as CAIP) to be administered by the Adair County Cattlemen’s Association. This program is a 50% cost-share program with a maximum funding of $2,500 per farm operation.

Adair County Circuit Court Clerk Dennis Loy will be taking his trailer to Eastern Kentucky with donated items for the relief effort. Items that are needed: blankets, pillows, toiletries, towels, washcloths, diapers, and bottled water. The trailer will be parked in the Columbia Christian Church parking lot on Wednesday morning,...

Columbia, KY (August 1, 2022) Kentucky State Police Post 15 will be conducting periodic traffic safety checkpoints in the Post 15 area, which includes Green, Taylor, Marion, Washington, Russell, Casey, Adair, Metcalfe, Monroe, Clinton, and Cumberland counties. These checkpoints will be conducted as part of Post 15’s highway safety efforts....

Kentucky State Police Post 15 will be conducting periodic traffic safety checkpoints in the Post 15 area, which includes Green, Taylor, Marion, Washington, Russell, Casey, Adair, Metcalfe, Monroe, Clinton, and Cumberland counties. These checkpoints will be conducted as part of Post 15’s highway safety efforts. Troopers will be checking...

(LAURA SEELY – ADAIR COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE)

Charity Browning, head volleyball coach for Adair County High School, has announced her schedule for the 2022 season. “I don’t think they have had a schedule like this in the past,” Browning said. “There are some really tough teams on the schedule, and there will be some matches where we will be competitive. I think the kids need some encouragement.

Two local people were indicted by an Adair County grand jury. Anthony Colten Dowell of Russell Springs was indicted on charges of burglary first degree, criminal mischief second degree, and theft of a firearm. Brent Junior Grimsley of Dunnville was indicted on charges of trafficking in methamphetamine second or more...

On Friday, July 29th, 2022 at 8:39 pm, Adair County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Deputy Chandler Staten and Chief Deputy Brandon Hitch were dispatched to Lampton Lane, to investigate a suspicious male in the area. Upon locating that male, he was identified as Joshua Arnold, 40, of Columbia. After a...

Adam Harris of Columbia, an inmate in the Adair County Regional Jail, has been charged with felony assault after an altercation Sunday at the jail. Officers from the Columbia Police Department were called to the jail after midnight Sunday morning about an altercation between an inmate and staff member. The inmate was said to have created a disturbance before an altercation with a male deputy jailer, resulting in minor injuries.

Adair Circuit Court Grand Jury Indictments – Commonwealth Of Kentucky: Indictments 07-29-2022-095747. *Reminder — Indictments are not a finding of guilt. All individuals are innocent, until proven guilty, in a court of law. (Annetta Burton – Deputy Clerk – Adair County Circuit Clerk)

“Really appreciate those who made that extra effort to attend today’s meeting with the Rogers Scholars. The Scholars were wonderful and they really appreciated us being there! Our next meeting will be back on schedule, the second Tuesday, August 9, noon, at LWC Cramner Dining Center. Dr. Pam Stephens, Superintendent, will be giving the State of the Schools Address. It is always very informative and we hope you can make this meeting. Thanks!”

This story originally appeared in the July 21 issue of the Community Voice. For your subscription, call 270-384-9454. Barbara Williams seemed to always have a feeling something needed to change. She was working as an operating room nurse in the Riverside, California area. She got up every morning at 5 a.m. and worked in the surgical wing of the hospital, where she said it was always freezing.

Adair County High School football season tickets are now on sale through Sept. 2 for just $25. All season and single game tickets will again be online this season though Hometown tickets. Single game tickets will be available on Thursdays before each home game for just $6. Please secure your...

Patty Ann Scott Keltner, 68, of the Portland community in Adair County, died Sunday, July 24, 2022 at 1:33 a.m. at Baptist Health Hardin in Elizabethtown. She was born June 21, 1954, in Campbellsville, Kentucky. She graduated from Taylor County High School, worked at Osh Kosh B’Gosh for many years, a homemaker, a member of Columbia Baptist Church, where she was always involved in the youth activities and more recently involved with the youth at Columbia First Church of the Nazarene.

Following recent heavy rainfall that came through the area this week, Russell County and the surrounding area is no longer in a drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor and the National Weather Service. A portion of Adair County falls within the Abnormally Dry and in moderate drought category but,...