2013 SEC basketball preview
As the holiday season comes to a close, the Southeastern Conference is ready to launch its 2013 men’s college basketball season. The defending national champion reigns from the SEC, and the league has three teams who could contend for this year’s national title. This SEC season will also include the two conference newcomers, Texas A&M and Missouri. Both teams will
Jester back on the court
By Gene Stanley/Sports Correspondent
Until 1976, the state of Alabama had no girls high school basketball teams. None.
That same year, Jacksonville State University started its women’s basketball program.
Not having any in-state players to recruit, Gamecock coaches went to neighboring states to find athletes for their inaugural season.
Kathleen Jester, nee Kemp, a native of Cave Spring, Ga., thus has the distinction
Local biker making noise in BamaCross
By Gene Stanley/Sports Correspondent
For the average person, a bicycle is either something they had as a child or something they now own but ride for recreational purposes.
Not so for Randy Kerr.
The 55-year old Gadsden man is into competitive biking, and in a big way.
“I probably take it too seriously,” he said. “But it’s what I do for fun and for
Stop playing politics with peoples’ lives
I don’t envy Gov. Bentley. He has a tough job to do and has had to make some tough choices over the past two years. But one of the choices he has made should not have been tough at all. Yet he took months to make his choice, flip-flopped on that choice, and ultimately made the wrong decision.
I’m talking about
Life around the Dwight Mill Village, Part 2
Ed (W.A.) Lewis of the Etowah Historical Society brought a booklet to the Vagabond about someone from the Dwight Cotton Mill Village. It is called, “A USA Mill Town Saga of the 1900’s.”
Eugene Livingston wrote what he remembered about the times, hardships, laughter and love shared between two families, Jim and Ester Livingston and Roy and Betty Emery as they
Film project comes back to hometown
By Donna Thornton/News Editor
Hokes Bluff’s Bo McGuire brought cameras, crew and cast to Hokes Bluff during the between-Christmas-and-New-Year’s break to capture images for a student film project.
McGuire is a student at New York University Film School, and this short film is his second-year student project.
His film – which has a PG-13 title – is known as “*hitbird” for G-rated publications.
Assisting, wherever needed
By Donna Thornton/News Editor
Volunteers from across the country and the world work to meet the needs of people facing disasters through Samaritan’s Purse.
Several members of Southside Baptist Church volunteer with the organization, heading out for a few weeks at a time when their help is needed.
Dan Childs and Tim Weeks are based in Toms River, New Jersey now, helping people
Task force begins to plan school security
An Etowah County task force that grew from discussions immediately after the mass shooting of school children and personnel at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 14 met Wednesday to begin the business of shoring up security at local schools.
Etowah County Circuit Judge Allen Millican said the meeting Jan. 2 was a preliminary step – the first of
Volunteers follow God’s call into disaster zones
By Donna Thornton/News Editor
For about four years, Ginger and Denny Sanders of Southside have been part of Samaritan’s Purse, the evangelical organization headed now by Franklin Graham that may be best known for distributing Christmas gift boxes – that church members have filled with small gifts – to children in impoverished or war-torn countries.
Samaritan’s Purse does much more: providing medical