Area News
Muscle 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 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…
Read MoreNov. 8 arrests
The following arrests were made by the Colbert County Sheriff’s Office in recent days: - On Oct. 7, Terri A. Smith, 31, was arrested and charged with illegal possession of prescription drugs. According to Deputy Christopher Miller’s report, he made a traffic stop for an expired tag and the registered owner of the vehicle having…
Read MoreToys for Tots registration Nov. 19-22
The year was 1947, and Marine Corps Reserve Major Bill Hendricks’ wife Diane had a few handcrafted dolls. She told her husband to deliver the dolls to an agency that supports children in need. When Bill reported back to his wife that he could not find such an organization, she instructed him to “start one!”…
Read MoreFaderz ‘The Manly Salon’ open for business in Tuscumbia
It’s no secret that many men like to sit, have a beer and socialize while watching sports on the television or listen to music. A couple of new business owners took that concept and thought why not be able to do that while getting your hair cut or your nails trimmed? And thus, the idea…
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