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Glencoe High to field girls soccer team

By Chris McCarthy/ Publisher/Editor

Another form of high school football soon will hit Yellow Jacket country.

Glencoe will field a girls varsity soccer team next spring, fulfilling the wish of a number of GHS and Glencoe Middle student-athletes who wanted to represent their school on the pitch.

According to GHS principal Charlton Giles, the program is officially declared as a varsity sport with

In & around SEC football

SEC coach rankings

1. Nick Saban, Alabama. As the only active coach with four national championships, Saban easily has been the most dominant college football coach of the 21st century. He is 72-9 in the last six seasons at Alabama, with three national titles and two SEC championships. Since becoming the head coach at UA, Saban has put together the nation’s

Classifieds for the week of July 25 – July 31, 2014

 AUCTIONS

Bank Orders

Immediate

Liquidation

High End Subdivision Lots

Whorton Bend

Water’s Edge Subdivision –

One of Etowah County’s

Nicest Subdivisions

COTTAGE LOTS

ORIGINALLY

OFFERED & SOLD AT

$65,000.00 EA.

8 COTTAGE LOTS

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Legal notices for the week of July 25 – July 31, 2014

 MORTGAGE

FORECLOSURE SALE

Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Lizann O. Allsup, an unmarried woman, and Don Owens, a married man, originally in favor of The Bank, on the 12th day of May, 2003, said mortgage recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate

Simple principle: jobs mean revenue

There is a simple business principle that many understand and that economists have spent years dissecting and discussing in books, on television and in newspaper articles – creating jobs for people means generating revenue for all sectors.

Unfortunately, for Alabama, there are people in leadership that don’t understand that simple principle. Instead of wanting to create jobs that will help solve

The WPA and the Forrest Cemetery Chapel

This week The Vagabond talks about the Work Projects Administration and Forrest Cemetery Chapel.

In October 1929, the stock market crashed wiped out 40 percent of the paper values of common stock and triggered a worldwide depression. By 1933, the value of stock on the New York Stock Exchange was less than a fifth of what it had been in 1929.

Dr. Alan celebrates 15 years in Gadsden

By Lindsay Seagraves/News Editor

Dr. Roger Alan, DDS and staff celebrated its 15-year anniversary on Wednesday, July 16, with an open house and refreshments. 

Alan has been serving the Gadsden area since he began practicing prosthodontics in 1999, when he opened his South 4th Street location. 

There, he serves as a full-service dental clinic offering prosthodontics and regular dental work.

As a prosthodontist, Alan

Southside’s Them Dirty Roses blossom in Music City

By Lindsay Seagraves/News Editor

“Every Rose has its Thorn.”

Them Dirty Roses, however, don’t seem a thorn in Nashville’s side, as they’re taking Music City, USA by storm with their unmistakable southern down home rock and roll sound. 

Southside musicians James Ford, Frank Ford, Ben Crain and Andrew Davis make up a rock band unique to the Coosa Valley, as each of their

American Family Care plans on December opening at ground-breaking ceremony

By Lindsay Seagraves/News Editor

A ceremonial groundbreaking was held on a sunny Thursday, July 17 by the Gadsden-Etowah Chamber of Commerce for American Family Care, a new family medical care clinic expected to open in Gadsden Dec. 2014. 

The clinic’s location will be at 366 E. Meighan Blvd in the Walmart Shopping center. 

The clinic is being built just in time for Meighan’s