Post 31 putting together holiday gift bags for veterans
Christmastime is time of joy and giving for many residents of The Shoals. A time to see family and friends while giving gifts and spreading some Christmas cheer. However, not everyone receives presents or even visitors during the holidays. Some of these people are aging veterans, ones who might not have any family to come…
Read MoreDeshler earns 2nd-round game with win over North Jackson
The Deshler Tigers have already topped last season and then some. In 2024, Deshler went 6-4 and fell inches short of the playoffs. Fast forward to 2025, and the Tigers are 10-1 with a 42-14 Class 4A first-round playoff win over North Jackson under their belts. While that is better than 2024, the standard at…
Read MoreMuscle Shoals gets rematch with Parker in 2nd round
Entering the playoffs means playing like every game could be the last one of the season, because that is what’s on the line. Winner takes all, loser goes home. That fact did not escape head coach Scott Basden and the Muscle Shoals Trojans when they hosted Mae Jemison in the first round of the Class…
Read MoreColbert County runs past Collinsville in 1st round
Modern football has become mostly about wide-open formations, multiple receivers and gunslinging quarterbacks. At least in the higher levels of the sport, anyway. At Colbert County, the Indians are more than happy to run the rock. Especially when three separate players eclipse 100 yards rushing in one night. That’s what the Collinsville Panthers (8-3) faced…
Read MoreNov. 15 obituaries
Steven Joseph Fuller, 62 Steven Joseph Fuller, 62, of Florence, passed away on Sunday, November 2, 2025. He will be laid to rest in Rome/Proctorville, Ohio, with his grandparents, Woodrow and Dorothy Duty. Steven was a Christian and a member of the Baptist faith. He worked for a volunteer Fire Department in Ohio, and was…
Read MoreNew Tuscumbia Council members sworn in
The first meeting for the new members of the Tuscumbia City Council is in the books. Mayor T.W. Billings, Roderick Metcalf (District 1), Sidney Nall (District 2), Jennifer Bennetch (District 3), Len Gregory (District 4) and Krista Stanley (District 5) were all sworn in by Probate Judge Daniel Rosser during the Nov. 3 meeting of…
Read MoreFormer DA Graham passes away at 66
Standing up for the weak and those unable to fight back. That is the main reason Bryce Graham Jr, former Colbert County District Attorney, said he wanted to be a prosecutor on a video uploaded by the Alabama District Attorneys Association in 2019. Graham Jr. passed away suddenly on Nov. 2 from an apparent heart…
Read MoreJohnson leads Post 31 Color Guard for a decade
Times have changed a lot over the last 60 years. Many teenagers today come home from school, lock their eyes on one of various electronic screens and whittle away the hours. In the summer of 1967, the United States was embroiled in a prolonged military action in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The U.S. was involved…
Read MoreDenton celebrates 87th birthday
Bobby Denton, a native of Cherokee, was born on Aug. 13, 1938, in the midst of the Great Depression. He was born to sharecropper parents that lived in a home with no electricity. As a teenager, Denton approached a man named James Joiner about recording music. Joiner, who founded Tune Records in Florence in 1956,…
Read MoreDeshler falls to West Morgan, earns No. 2 seed
The Oct. 30 matchup between Deshler and West Morgan, both undefeated, would not only determine the Class 4A, Region 7 champion, but the No. 1 seed in the playoffs. Everyone knew going into the game that West Morgan would prove the most difficult opponent so far this year, and the game lived up to the…
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