In & around SEC baseball
Alabama and Auburn Week 9 Review
Alabama won its most important series of the season over Auburn, as the Crimson Tide swept the Tigers on The Plains last weekend. The Crimson Tide had been struggling entering the series and Auburn had been playing as well as any team in the conference, but the Tigers couldn’t overcome large deficits to
Hardin Center to Offer Summer Jazz Workshop
The Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts will offer a summer jazz workshop, June 22-26 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The week long jazz camp will be directed by Matt Leder. Matt Leder is the Music Director/Instructor at Gadsden State Community College and has an extensive background in jazz studies; including mentorship from Ellis Marsalis, Irvin Mayfield, Clyde
TechBlitz winners announced
Gadsden City Schools annual TechBlitz was held Friday, May 8 at the Bevill Center on the campus of Gadsden State Community College.
The Best of Show Winner was Jacob Kelley and his project was a Lego Robot that walked and could throw balls.
For the category class/school project, the K-2 grade winners were Theophil Oyassan, Kylie Wise and Kileque
Ford addresses Republican tax increase bill
House Minority Leader Craig Ford (D-Gadsden) is reprimanding Republicans on the Alabama House of Representatives Ways and Means/Education Trust Fund Committee for going back on their pledge not to raise taxes and voting to pass a bill that would raise taxes on lube oil by 5,960 percent.
The bill had been voted down on May 6 when four
Local legislator’s bill signed into law
The “Student Religious Liberties Act” legislation sponsored by State Rep. Mack Butler (R-Rainbow City) became law on May 7 as Gov. Robert Bentley affixed his signature to the measure in a signing ceremony that coincided with the National Day of Payer.
The bill was part of the House Republican Caucus’s “Alabama First” legislative agenda that GOP lawmakers announced
Williams named GRMC’s patient choice award winner
Natasha Williams, a registered nurse in orthopedics at Gadsden Regional Medical Center, has been named the 2015 Patient Choice Award winner.
Williams received the honor on May 6, at GRMC.
May 6 was also National Nurses Day, when nurses across the country are recognized for their tireless commitment to the profession.
Williams was selected from a field of more
Republicans are trading in job slogans for taxes
After five years of passing millions of dollars in tax cuts for big businesses and billion-dollar, out-of-state corporations that, in some cases, pay zero state income taxes, Republicans in the state House of Representatives are about to raise taxes on working men and women.
Only six months after campaigning on a pledge to create more jobs and never raise
Hunting for gold in Southside in the 1890’s
There have been many efforts to mine gold in Eto-wah and adjoining counties, mostly with small profit, although in some instances a few nuggets of real gold were found. There have been several stories about Indians pointing out where gold could be found and about the various kinds of mining carried on by white men who believed the Indian
Legal notices for the week of May 15 – May 21, 2015
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MORTGAGE
FORECLOSURE SALE
Default having been made in the terms of that certain Mortgage, executed on the 01/29/2007, by JOHNNY SMITH, AN UNMARRIED MAN, as Mortgagor, to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR FIRST FEDERAL BANK as Mortgagee, which said Mortgage is recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate, Etowah