West End duo tabbed for All-State softball
By Chris McCarthy/Editor A pair of players from West End High School made the first team on for the 2014 Alabama Sports Writers Association’s Class 2A All-State softball team. Senior pitcher/infielder Morgan Cleveland was selected for the utility position, while sophomore Destiney Butts made it as a second baseman. Two area players garnered honorable mention […]
Auburn basketball coach meets & greets at Back 40
By Gene Stanley/Sports Correspondent Mike and Virginia McCartney’s simple request turned into a big Auburn party on Tuesday evening (June 2). “They asked me what I could do to help,” said new Tigers basketball coach Bruce Pearl at Back Forty Beer Company. “I told them that since I’m still new here, I need to meet […]
Sardis’ Hallmark to cheer for Shorter
By Shannon J. Allen/Sand Mountain Reporter
2014 Sardis High graduate Hollie Hallmark earned letters in cheerleading, volleyball, basketball, track and softball during her high school career.
Also an honors student, Hallmark was a sophomore when she decided to concentrate on cheerleading, and the move paid off with a scholarship to Shorter University in Rome, Ga.
“I played many sports in high school, and
Gadsden State student-athletes recognized
Gadsden State Community College recently announce that three athletic teams earned honors for their work in the classroom in qualifying for the National Junior College Athletic Association Academic teams for the 2013-2014 school year. To qualify as an academic team, athletic teams must have a minimum 3.0 cumulative grade point average. The GSCC men’s tennis […]
In & around SEC baseball
NCAA Regionals Review
Ten Southeastern Conference teams made the NCAA tournament, but only two advanced to the Super Regionals. Ole Miss and Vanderbilt both went undefeated in the opening weekend of the tournament. Vanderbilt hosts Stanford this weekend in Nashville, while Ole Miss travels to take on the Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns.
The Rebels knocked off Jacksonville State, 12-2, in their opening game,
Classifieds for the week of June 6 – June 12, 2014
AUCTIONS
Preview Saturday June 7th, 8AM – 10AM
Auction begins Sat. June 7th – 10AM
220 Locust Street, Downtown Gadsden, Located Between Intersection of 3rd and 2nd Streets.
Most Items To Be Sold Absolute
Store Fixtures, Cash Registers, Furniture, Lamps, Stainless Steel Jenn-Aire Appliances, Building Materials.
Light Fixtures, Garage Door, Quilts, Household
Legal notices for the week of June 6 – June 12, 2014
MORTGAGE
FORECLOSURE SALE
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Leslie White and James White, wife and husband, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., acting solely as nominee for Metro Bank, dated February 21, 2007, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate
State leaders singing a different tune
My, how the tables have turned.
Four years ago, Republican politicians in Montgomery were applauding Republican prosecutors for investigating public corruption in the bingo trials – an investigation that led to exactly zero convictions.
Now, these same Republican politicians are claiming that politics is behind the investigation into their own corruption, and that the investigation is nothing more than an attempt to
Mary Harrison Lister, founder of the Etowah Historical Society, Part 4
The Vagabond recently visited the State Archives in Montgomery, where he discovered several photos of Etowah Historical Society founder Mary Harrison Lister. The following is a continuation of a book written by Elbert L. Watson about Mary Harrison Lister:
“Another high moment for Mrs. Lister and the Historical Society occurred in the following spring, when Mr. M.M. Johnson, one of Emma