Wendy King said she was traveling the Natchez Trace one day but had to take a detour. The side trip took her through Allsboro near Cherokee on the western edge of Colbert County near the state line with Mississippi. It was in Allsboro that she found the structure she had been looking for. An old…

The old saying goes “if you don’t like the weather in Alabama, wait 5 minutes.” For those that were not fans of the severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings that swept across The Shoals late on March 15, at least you didn’t wake up to snow. Unless you wanted snow, anyway. Around 9:45 p.m. on March…

The Alabama Association of School Boards (AASB) announced March 10 that Chad Holden, Ed.D., has been named the organization’s next executive director. A lifelong resident of the Shoals area, Holden currently serves as superintendent of Muscle Shoals City Schools, a position he has held since July 2020. He brings nearly 24 years of public education…

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville and Rep. Robert Aderholt announced the United States Navy will soon hold a ribbon cutting on a new defense industrial facility in The Shoals on March 20. Tuberville announced the project during a speech at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville on March 9, with Aderholt also speaking about the project…

Ember & Ivory is a small business based in Muscle Shoals that sells decorative candles designed to look as beautiful as they smell. The business began in December 2025, a month after Chelsie Castle learned she had lost her healthcare job. Castle had worked as a medical director in Nashville and had recently relocated to…

There were a number of items on the agenda during the March 2 meeting of the Tuscumbia City Council, including the ongoing issue of the music-related sculpture. More specifically the lack of one, as it were. A project was launched a number of years ago to have a sculpture related to The Shoals’ musical heritage…