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Auburn and Alabama Week 5 Review

Auburn lost two out of three games to rival Alabama last weekend in Tuscaloosa. The Tigers won the opener, 2-1, behind a dominant pitching performance from Dillon Ortman. The Crimson Tide bounced back with a 4-1 victory in the second game. Alabama pitcher Justin Kamplain allowed only one run in eight and 2/3 innings. In

Lady Warriors win tennis sectionals

The Westbrook Christian girls tennis team swept the double competition and won five of six singles matches to win the Class 1A-3A, Section 4 tennis tournament on Tuesday (Apr. 15) at the Dana Loconto Tennis Complex in Gadsden.

The Lady Warriors will compete at the Class 1A-3A state tournament on Apr. 21-22 in Montgomery. 

Westbrook totaled 61 points at sectionals, followed by

Commings signs with UWA

By Chris McCarthy/Editor Chelsea Commings is leaving the Titans for the Tigers. The Gadsden City High senior signed a soccer scholarship on Wednesday (Apr. 16) with the University of West Alabama in Livingston. Commings, who has started for the Lady Titan varsity soccer team at striker since her 8th grade year, was excited about the […]

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Deception, broken promises the status quo in Montgomery

Despite months of promising a pay raise for educators, it turns out that all the governor’s talk was just that – more election year rhetoric.

After four years of constant assaults on our public schools, this budget and the governor’s empty promises for a pay raise are just one more attack on education from the Republican Supermajority in Montgomery.

Gov. Robert Bentley

Watch out… there may be monsters in the Coosa!

Horror stories began to surface during the late 1950s and early ‘60s when the many dams were constructed along the Coosa and other rivers in Alabama. Stories of catfish as large as a Volkswagen have been told over and over again for more than 50 years.

While these stories have been told as true, there were stories of river monsters of

Decades later, crime echoes in survivor’s life

By Donna Thornton/News Editor

Bryant Archer’s 17-year-old daughter wants to look for a job, and he can’t stand the thought of it.

Most of the jobs available to a 17-year-old now are like the one Archer was working when he was 17 on a night that changed his life forever.

Archer was one of four young people shot during a robbery on April

Grant covers cost of work to make field safe

By Donna Thornton/News Editor

Those who witnessed the “before” at Gadsden City High School’s football practice field expressed appreciation for the “after” on April 11, when local legislators and representatives of Coosa Valley Resource Conservaton & Development Council presented a check to the school to pay for the project.

“It wasn’t a situation where we had a surface and made it better,”