Here's a bunch of pics (posted without rhyme or reason) from the last six months. I'm finished with school now, so I'll try to keep this more up to date (but no promises).
Trinity United Methodist Church member Josh Webb prays silently during a prayer meeting at the church on Tuesday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Jackie Osinski, Director of Programs, Outreach and Education for Trinity United Methodist Church, far right, leads a prayer with a group of church members on Tuesday. Trinity has begun a weekly call to prayer for their church family and for all Christians everywhere to take time every Tuesday at 6 p.m. to pray specifically for the city, the county and the country as well as for individuals in need. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputy Andrew Allen, waits for Lt. Tanya Colber to sign out a group of prisoners from jailer Dave Baulac at the Jefferson County Jail. While waiting to go to the academy, Allen will work side by side with Lt. Colber and other senior officers to get a working hands-on knowledge of the day to day operations. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Rick Ballard, and his son Brannon, 7, of Mt. Washington, Ky., take a paddle boat ride around the lake during a family outing at General Butler State Park on Wednesday. The paddle boats are available for rental through Labor Day. The hours are from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday's through Thursdays and from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Rentals are $10 per hour for each four seater paddle boat or two person canoe. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
With a trace of the spotlights coming through the curtain, Barry Elkins plays a mandolin backstage. Elkins was waiting for his band The White Lighting Boys to go on as the last performance before intermission at the Hoosier Hank & Johnny: The Music of Hank Williams and Johnny Cash concert on Friday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Local blues guitarist and singer Jimmy Davis opens the Hoosier Hank & Johnny: The Music of Hank Williams and Johnny Cash concert at the Ohio Theater on Friday. The concert, which was presented by the Cultural Continuum of Madison, was sold out on the night of the show. After a series of solo renditions, Davis brought out friends Greg Ziesemer and Kriss Luckett. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Elly Cicenas, 9, investigates what she thinks might be a worm in a radish that she pulled from the ground on Monday at the Girls Inc. Garden. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Madison Consolidated Schools Director of Technology Operations James Brown, dismantles a switching unit for the Canaan Elementary School telephone and computer network on Friday as Brown and others helped to move MCS equipment and supplies from Canaan. The equipment that Brown was disassembling will be used at Ryker's Ridge Elementary School. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Gabriel Romero, 11, of Laconia, Ind., is tailed by an Indiana State Police cruiser as he drives a golf cart with "Sobriety Goggles" which are designed to reproduce the visual impairment associated with particular blood alcohol levels. Romero was one of more than 30 youths at the annual Respect for Law Camp at Hanover College this week.
After running over a traffic cone, Romero was stopped by the ISP and underwent a field sobriety test and "taken into custody." (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Bear Cub Luke Nickell uses a rope to guide his car down Vine Street as Cub Scout Pack 718 held a Cub Mobile race for their Tiger, Wolf and Bear groups (first through third grades) on Saturday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Traffic speeds past Gary Guarino on his slow moving sidewalk sweeper at West and Main streets. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
On Saturday from noon to 10 p.m., visitors to the Ohio River Valley Folk Festival at Bicentennial Park will be able to get a glimpse into the typical underwater ecosystem in our river at a display from the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission's "Life Below the Waterline" aquarium. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Hanging Rock Hill had to be closed Monday as the waterfall washed over the roadway. A Madison Police cruiser is seen here moving cautiously in the oncoming lane, just before the road was reopened as the falls began to subside. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Remote controlled robots are used to place pool balls into a short cone during a robotics competition at Ivy Tech Community College Madison Campus on Wednesday. The competition was the last event in a three-day robotics in education program. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Indiana State Police Detective Rick Stockdale dons a protective suit and gloves before clearing materials from a methamphetamine lab at 2634 N. Brooksburg-Manville Road, in Milton Township on Thursday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Andrew Potter passes the time near a campfire at the 33rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry camp by playing a set of bones and talking to the occasional visitor at Lanier Days on Saturday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Esther Miller covers cinnamon roles with icing as her daughter Hannah, 17, works behind her in the kitchen. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Julia Wise has developed a skill for learning multiple instruments. while her first love is the violin, she is also able to perform with a guitar, flute, clarinet, piano and cello. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Justin Banks, 5, (left) and his brother Matthew, 7, of Vevay, make their way through CoCo, the Colossal Colon on Friday. The 40-foot long, 4-foot tall model of a human colon was brought in and installed at Wal-Mart on Friday as part of a traveling exhibit to inform the public about cancer, diverticulitis and other diseases of the colon. There were also small openings in the top of the model for those unable, or unwilling to climb through CoCo. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Reagan Warren, 5, walks in a parade of racers just before the annual Head Start 500 at the O.V.O. Child Development Center on Tuesday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Zachary Dean, center, takes off quickly for the lead against Philip Scully, left, and Forrest Deutscher the annual Head Start 500 at the O.V.O. Child Development Center on Tuesday. The race car boxes were created by the children and their parents, and the youngsters ran in pseudo-competitive heats. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Bead artist Kevin Douglas Leach says there is always a work in progress on the mirrored table in his studio, which is covered in containers of beads and crystals. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Bead artist Kevin Douglas Leach adjusts a piece of his work before rehanging it in his apartment and studio. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Ashton Hill, 13, fishes with his grandfather Ronald Harrison on the riverfront in Madison on Friday. With the temperatures reaching into the 90's the two waited until close to sundown to go out with their rods and reels. Harrison, a retired switch yard worker from IKE said he and Ashton spend many hours hunting and fishing together and he is proud to list off his grandson's numerous catches and kills. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
The old city hall building on west street is seen through a screen of icicles hanging from the gutters along side the neighboring dentists' office. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Trey Holt, 12, clears his neighbor's sidewalks after clearing the walkway in front of his own home on Main street Monday. Holt said he is enjoying the multiple snow breaks from his classes at Madison Junior High School. The school's were canceled again today and the forecast has the possibility coming through the Courierarea later this week and the beginning of next week. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Paul de Lamerens, plant environmental superintendent in the Environmental Department at the Indiana-Kentucky Electric Corporation's Clifty Creek Plant (center with orange hat), directs the attention to one of the stacks gives a tour of the facility to a group of students from Shawe Memorial High School on Thursday. The tour, which also included students from Southwestern and Madison high schools, was part of the EcO15 program. Pictured with de Lamerens are Shawe students, from left, Matt Armstrong, Michael Kring and Eric Grote, chaperone Kevin Fry, and students Dawson Fair and Olivia Daugherty. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Jack Olds, from left, and two of his employees, computer tech Chris Miles and loader/pilot-in-training Kerry Lee pose for a portrait near one of Olds' aircraft that he uses for crop dusting fields. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Brett Cahill, 7, left, and Meaghan Geyman, 8, both of Madison, round a corner during the stick-horse race at the second annual Barn Blast event at the Jefferson County 4-H Fair on Thursday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Nicholas Sebastiao, 7, of Deputy, leaps across the arena during the sack race at the second annual Barn Blast event at the Jefferson County 4-H Fair on Thursday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Caroline Bechman, 7, from left, Jessie Stuart, 8, Belle Stubbins, 8, Ashlyn White, 7, Jesse Marshall, 8, and Anne Hassfurder, 8 compete in the calf scramble where the children raced to see who could be the first to grab the ribbon from the calf's tail. The scramble was one of the events at the second annual Barn Blast event at the Jefferson County 4-H Fair on Thursday. The barn blast is for first and second graders from the mini 4-H program with team games designed to give a fun welcome to the new children and parents in 4-H. Games included a water balloon toss, a stick horse race, musical chairs, a cow pie toss (using brown Frisbees), a sack race, several relay races and the calf scramble. After the children finished the games, each one got a tie-dyed shirt and an ice cream cone. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
As exhibits and competitions happen across the field, the midway bustles with activity at the 2010 Jefferson County 4-H Fair this week. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Rebecca Mack, 17, of the Homegrown 4H Club, waits near her caged rabbit while another portion of the rabbit show went on at the 2010 Jefferson County 4H Fair on Monday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Morgan Ruffra, 10 calms her rabbit before her competition began, at the rabbit show at the 2010 Jefferson County 4H Fair on Monday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
A young fox peaks out from it's hiding place in a pole barn on Rogers Road near Kent. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Southwestern High School sophomores Kendall Ebley and Ryan Wells set up chairs in the SWHS gymnasium while working as part of a set up crew for the Ohio Valley Showcase, which will be held at the school tonight and Saturday. The event is sponsored by the Southwestern Show Choir Esprit. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Kuba the Clown from Spectrum Productions of Jefferson County, entertains Cinda Hoehn, of Corydon, Ind., at the MadisonFest block party on Friday. Once the sun began to set and the temperatures cooled, a large crowd of people came out to enjoy games, food, free music and more on the opening night of the new festival. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Sammi Cox, 4, of Anderson, practices on her new roller skates at Bicentennial Park on Thursday. Cox has been visiting her grandmother, Sue Goins this week in Madison. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Brad Rule sits deep within the A.B. Felgemaker pipe organ at First Baptist Church, dismantling the massive instrument for shipment to his Knoxville, Tenn. shop. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Second graders Hunter Ehlers, 9, left, and Mikey Lehman, 8, look through a "Dirty Jobs" book at the Scholastic Book Fair fundraiser at Anderson Elementary School on Wednesday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Roger Welch turns a table leg on a lathe in his shop. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Bob Gray oils up the valves on his cornet before the weekly practice for the Madison Community Band on Tuesday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Trevor Crafton, owner of Cozy Acres Golf Complex, poses for a portrait with his 6-month-old son, Nash in the club house on Thursday. Crafton and his team at Cozy Acres will be featured in the National Golf Course Owners Association's trade magazine, "Golf Business". (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Cody Thornton laughs with friends before the 2010 Southwestern High School graduation ceremony on Friday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Zaira Watterson, 4, and her sister Mya, 6, enjoy ice creme cones from a nearby vendor at the 2010 Madison Regatta on Saturday. The Watterson girls, of Muncie, were visiting their family with their dad, Colt Watterson. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Vern Parrish, of Bedford, top, and Ross Colen, of Rising Sun, go fishing on the Kentucky River after starting out from Point Park in Carrollton on Wednesday. Parrish said meeting in Carrollton was a little more than half way for Colen but that, "Our water's a lot better here." (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Terry Ford, of Glass Unlimited, goes outside of the Main Street public restrooms and comfort station where he and a crew of workers were replacing the windows on Tuesday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
The royal court of the 2010 Miss Madison Regatta pageant wave to the parade spectators in the Regatta parade on Friday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Kyle Simpson, guitarist for the Jeffersonville, Ind., band Slakker, plays a solo in his band's cover of the Metallica song, "Master of Puppets" at the 2010 Madison Regatta Battle of the Bands at Fireman's Park on Thursday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
A groundhog walks around along the fence line on the south lawn at the Lanier Mansion on the day before Groundhog Day. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
The magnolia trees were in full bloom this week in front of the Prince of Peace Church on Second Street providing a sweet fragrance for the nose and a bright sight for the eyes. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Omar Santamaria stands in the window of the the Old Jefferson Street Antique Mall while scrapping paint off the exterior sills. Building co-owner Andy Lytle said the first six of 87 windows are completed and they should all be done by the end of August. He said most of the interior demolition and restoration work has been completed. State permits for the construction work will be submitted soon. Lytle said one of the next visually noticeable projects on the building will be a new exterior paint job. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Elijah Pahls plays guitar and sings at a youth talent show at the Madison-Jefferson County Public Library on Wednesday. Each of the 13 performers received their choice of one book at the end of the program. Children's librarian, Brenda Evans said the show provided an opportunity for the youths to showcase their abilities in a friendly supportive environment. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Trinity United Methodist Church member Josh Webb prays silently during a prayer meeting at the church on Tuesday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Jackie Osinski, Director of Programs, Outreach and Education for Trinity United Methodist Church, far right, leads a prayer with a group of church members on Tuesday. Trinity has begun a weekly call to prayer for their church family and for all Christians everywhere to take time every Tuesday at 6 p.m. to pray specifically for the city, the county and the country as well as for individuals in need. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputy Andrew Allen, waits for Lt. Tanya Colber to sign out a group of prisoners from jailer Dave Baulac at the Jefferson County Jail. While waiting to go to the academy, Allen will work side by side with Lt. Colber and other senior officers to get a working hands-on knowledge of the day to day operations. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Rick Ballard, and his son Brannon, 7, of Mt. Washington, Ky., take a paddle boat ride around the lake during a family outing at General Butler State Park on Wednesday. The paddle boats are available for rental through Labor Day. The hours are from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday's through Thursdays and from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Rentals are $10 per hour for each four seater paddle boat or two person canoe. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
With a trace of the spotlights coming through the curtain, Barry Elkins plays a mandolin backstage. Elkins was waiting for his band The White Lighting Boys to go on as the last performance before intermission at the Hoosier Hank & Johnny: The Music of Hank Williams and Johnny Cash concert on Friday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Local blues guitarist and singer Jimmy Davis opens the Hoosier Hank & Johnny: The Music of Hank Williams and Johnny Cash concert at the Ohio Theater on Friday. The concert, which was presented by the Cultural Continuum of Madison, was sold out on the night of the show. After a series of solo renditions, Davis brought out friends Greg Ziesemer and Kriss Luckett. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Elly Cicenas, 9, investigates what she thinks might be a worm in a radish that she pulled from the ground on Monday at the Girls Inc. Garden. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Madison Consolidated Schools Director of Technology Operations James Brown, dismantles a switching unit for the Canaan Elementary School telephone and computer network on Friday as Brown and others helped to move MCS equipment and supplies from Canaan. The equipment that Brown was disassembling will be used at Ryker's Ridge Elementary School. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Gabriel Romero, 11, of Laconia, Ind., is tailed by an Indiana State Police cruiser as he drives a golf cart with "Sobriety Goggles" which are designed to reproduce the visual impairment associated with particular blood alcohol levels. Romero was one of more than 30 youths at the annual Respect for Law Camp at Hanover College this week.After running over a traffic cone, Romero was stopped by the ISP and underwent a field sobriety test and "taken into custody." (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Bear Cub Luke Nickell uses a rope to guide his car down Vine Street as Cub Scout Pack 718 held a Cub Mobile race for their Tiger, Wolf and Bear groups (first through third grades) on Saturday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Traffic speeds past Gary Guarino on his slow moving sidewalk sweeper at West and Main streets. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
On Saturday from noon to 10 p.m., visitors to the Ohio River Valley Folk Festival at Bicentennial Park will be able to get a glimpse into the typical underwater ecosystem in our river at a display from the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission's "Life Below the Waterline" aquarium. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Hanging Rock Hill had to be closed Monday as the waterfall washed over the roadway. A Madison Police cruiser is seen here moving cautiously in the oncoming lane, just before the road was reopened as the falls began to subside. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Remote controlled robots are used to place pool balls into a short cone during a robotics competition at Ivy Tech Community College Madison Campus on Wednesday. The competition was the last event in a three-day robotics in education program. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Indiana State Police Detective Rick Stockdale dons a protective suit and gloves before clearing materials from a methamphetamine lab at 2634 N. Brooksburg-Manville Road, in Milton Township on Thursday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Andrew Potter passes the time near a campfire at the 33rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry camp by playing a set of bones and talking to the occasional visitor at Lanier Days on Saturday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Esther Miller covers cinnamon roles with icing as her daughter Hannah, 17, works behind her in the kitchen. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Julia Wise has developed a skill for learning multiple instruments. while her first love is the violin, she is also able to perform with a guitar, flute, clarinet, piano and cello. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Justin Banks, 5, (left) and his brother Matthew, 7, of Vevay, make their way through CoCo, the Colossal Colon on Friday. The 40-foot long, 4-foot tall model of a human colon was brought in and installed at Wal-Mart on Friday as part of a traveling exhibit to inform the public about cancer, diverticulitis and other diseases of the colon. There were also small openings in the top of the model for those unable, or unwilling to climb through CoCo. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Reagan Warren, 5, walks in a parade of racers just before the annual Head Start 500 at the O.V.O. Child Development Center on Tuesday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Zachary Dean, center, takes off quickly for the lead against Philip Scully, left, and Forrest Deutscher the annual Head Start 500 at the O.V.O. Child Development Center on Tuesday. The race car boxes were created by the children and their parents, and the youngsters ran in pseudo-competitive heats. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Bead artist Kevin Douglas Leach says there is always a work in progress on the mirrored table in his studio, which is covered in containers of beads and crystals. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Bead artist Kevin Douglas Leach adjusts a piece of his work before rehanging it in his apartment and studio. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Ashton Hill, 13, fishes with his grandfather Ronald Harrison on the riverfront in Madison on Friday. With the temperatures reaching into the 90's the two waited until close to sundown to go out with their rods and reels. Harrison, a retired switch yard worker from IKE said he and Ashton spend many hours hunting and fishing together and he is proud to list off his grandson's numerous catches and kills. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
The old city hall building on west street is seen through a screen of icicles hanging from the gutters along side the neighboring dentists' office. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Trey Holt, 12, clears his neighbor's sidewalks after clearing the walkway in front of his own home on Main street Monday. Holt said he is enjoying the multiple snow breaks from his classes at Madison Junior High School. The school's were canceled again today and the forecast has the possibility coming through the Courierarea later this week and the beginning of next week. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Paul de Lamerens, plant environmental superintendent in the Environmental Department at the Indiana-Kentucky Electric Corporation's Clifty Creek Plant (center with orange hat), directs the attention to one of the stacks gives a tour of the facility to a group of students from Shawe Memorial High School on Thursday. The tour, which also included students from Southwestern and Madison high schools, was part of the EcO15 program. Pictured with de Lamerens are Shawe students, from left, Matt Armstrong, Michael Kring and Eric Grote, chaperone Kevin Fry, and students Dawson Fair and Olivia Daugherty. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Jack Olds, from left, and two of his employees, computer tech Chris Miles and loader/pilot-in-training Kerry Lee pose for a portrait near one of Olds' aircraft that he uses for crop dusting fields. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Brett Cahill, 7, left, and Meaghan Geyman, 8, both of Madison, round a corner during the stick-horse race at the second annual Barn Blast event at the Jefferson County 4-H Fair on Thursday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Nicholas Sebastiao, 7, of Deputy, leaps across the arena during the sack race at the second annual Barn Blast event at the Jefferson County 4-H Fair on Thursday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Caroline Bechman, 7, from left, Jessie Stuart, 8, Belle Stubbins, 8, Ashlyn White, 7, Jesse Marshall, 8, and Anne Hassfurder, 8 compete in the calf scramble where the children raced to see who could be the first to grab the ribbon from the calf's tail. The scramble was one of the events at the second annual Barn Blast event at the Jefferson County 4-H Fair on Thursday. The barn blast is for first and second graders from the mini 4-H program with team games designed to give a fun welcome to the new children and parents in 4-H. Games included a water balloon toss, a stick horse race, musical chairs, a cow pie toss (using brown Frisbees), a sack race, several relay races and the calf scramble. After the children finished the games, each one got a tie-dyed shirt and an ice cream cone. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
As exhibits and competitions happen across the field, the midway bustles with activity at the 2010 Jefferson County 4-H Fair this week. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Rebecca Mack, 17, of the Homegrown 4H Club, waits near her caged rabbit while another portion of the rabbit show went on at the 2010 Jefferson County 4H Fair on Monday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Morgan Ruffra, 10 calms her rabbit before her competition began, at the rabbit show at the 2010 Jefferson County 4H Fair on Monday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
A young fox peaks out from it's hiding place in a pole barn on Rogers Road near Kent. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Southwestern High School sophomores Kendall Ebley and Ryan Wells set up chairs in the SWHS gymnasium while working as part of a set up crew for the Ohio Valley Showcase, which will be held at the school tonight and Saturday. The event is sponsored by the Southwestern Show Choir Esprit. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Kuba the Clown from Spectrum Productions of Jefferson County, entertains Cinda Hoehn, of Corydon, Ind., at the MadisonFest block party on Friday. Once the sun began to set and the temperatures cooled, a large crowd of people came out to enjoy games, food, free music and more on the opening night of the new festival. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Sammi Cox, 4, of Anderson, practices on her new roller skates at Bicentennial Park on Thursday. Cox has been visiting her grandmother, Sue Goins this week in Madison. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Brad Rule sits deep within the A.B. Felgemaker pipe organ at First Baptist Church, dismantling the massive instrument for shipment to his Knoxville, Tenn. shop. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Second graders Hunter Ehlers, 9, left, and Mikey Lehman, 8, look through a "Dirty Jobs" book at the Scholastic Book Fair fundraiser at Anderson Elementary School on Wednesday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Roger Welch turns a table leg on a lathe in his shop. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Bob Gray oils up the valves on his cornet before the weekly practice for the Madison Community Band on Tuesday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Trevor Crafton, owner of Cozy Acres Golf Complex, poses for a portrait with his 6-month-old son, Nash in the club house on Thursday. Crafton and his team at Cozy Acres will be featured in the National Golf Course Owners Association's trade magazine, "Golf Business". (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Cody Thornton laughs with friends before the 2010 Southwestern High School graduation ceremony on Friday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Zaira Watterson, 4, and her sister Mya, 6, enjoy ice creme cones from a nearby vendor at the 2010 Madison Regatta on Saturday. The Watterson girls, of Muncie, were visiting their family with their dad, Colt Watterson. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Vern Parrish, of Bedford, top, and Ross Colen, of Rising Sun, go fishing on the Kentucky River after starting out from Point Park in Carrollton on Wednesday. Parrish said meeting in Carrollton was a little more than half way for Colen but that, "Our water's a lot better here." (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Terry Ford, of Glass Unlimited, goes outside of the Main Street public restrooms and comfort station where he and a crew of workers were replacing the windows on Tuesday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
The royal court of the 2010 Miss Madison Regatta pageant wave to the parade spectators in the Regatta parade on Friday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Kyle Simpson, guitarist for the Jeffersonville, Ind., band Slakker, plays a solo in his band's cover of the Metallica song, "Master of Puppets" at the 2010 Madison Regatta Battle of the Bands at Fireman's Park on Thursday. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
A groundhog walks around along the fence line on the south lawn at the Lanier Mansion on the day before Groundhog Day. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
The magnolia trees were in full bloom this week in front of the Prince of Peace Church on Second Street providing a sweet fragrance for the nose and a bright sight for the eyes. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Omar Santamaria stands in the window of the the Old Jefferson Street Antique Mall while scrapping paint off the exterior sills. Building co-owner Andy Lytle said the first six of 87 windows are completed and they should all be done by the end of August. He said most of the interior demolition and restoration work has been completed. State permits for the construction work will be submitted soon. Lytle said one of the next visually noticeable projects on the building will be a new exterior paint job. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
Elijah Pahls plays guitar and sings at a youth talent show at the Madison-Jefferson County Public Library on Wednesday. Each of the 13 performers received their choice of one book at the end of the program. Children's librarian, Brenda Evans said the show provided an opportunity for the youths to showcase their abilities in a friendly supportive environment. (Staff photo by Ken Ritchie/The Madison Courier)
