Sugarbakers wants to deliver ‘boutique’ bakery service
By Donna Thornton/News Editor
Before opening Sugarbakers in December, Chera Bush baked as a hobby. And while Sugarbakers offers catering, baking for all occasions and lunch, Bush wants to keep the business as close to home-baking as possible.
“We’re not a manufacturer of baked goods,” Bush said. “I like to think we’re more of a little boutique bakery.”
She said she doesn’t have
Cothran’s bakers work to achieve a bride’s vision
By Donna Thornton/News Editor
With 50 years in the baking business, Cothran’s Bakery has the traditional down pat. However, General Manager Clay Gambel said the staff at Cothran’s have their specialties, and they happen to match the preferences of the brides he typically sees.
“You have your traditional brides, the modern brides and the ultra-modern brides,” Gambel said.
One type will favor the
Options available for a more comfortable walk down the aisle
By Donna Thornton/News Editor
When Fibi & Clo, a New York husband and wife team, started designing “bling sandals’ they didn’t have wedding parties in mind, Kimberly Astin said, and neither did she when she began selling the shoes about a year ago.
But with the growing trend toward destination weddings, and outdoor weddings or unconventional sites like barns or farm settings,
Weddings require paperwork (and we don’t mean those napkins with the happy couple’s names on them)
By Donna Thornton/News Editor
Some of the glitz and glamour of the wedding ceremony might be optional, but one thing is not: a trip to the courthouse to see marriage clerk Pam Bone.
Bone is typically the person an engaged couple sees to get their marriage licenses – a requirement for couples to be legally married.
To get a marriage license, both the
GRMC to host stroke screenings
As part of National Stroke Awareness Month, the Gadsden Regional Medical Center Stroke Team will host stroke screenings on May 28 and May 30.
The screenings will be outside the cafeteria on the first floor of the hospital.
On both days, screenings will be held from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. and again from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The public is invited
Prosecution promised for drug use while pregnant
By Donna Thornton/News Editor
Etowah County District Attorney Jimmie Harp asked people to consider how hard it would be to have someone introduce your 15-year-old to narcotics, and have the child become addicted.
“But even then, that child had some choice in it,” Harp said. All too often, he said, Etowah County medical professionals and law enforcement personnel are seeing children who
Students free butterflies
By Donna Thornton/News Editor
Highland Elementary School fourth-graders got to see a science project come to fruition Monday as they released the butterflies they raised from larvae in the garden at Darden Rehabilitation Center.
Highland Principal Lori Lee Moss said it’s the first year the students have raised butterflies.
Science teachers Wanda Gilliland and Joyce Rucks got the larvae and students were careful