World’s Longest Yard Sale brings people to Gadsden
By Sarrah Peters
News Editor
This weekend, shoppers are expected to come to Lookout Mountain Parkway for the 27th annual World’s Longest Yard Sale. The yard sale started on August 6, and will continue through August 9.
The sale was first started in 1987 to demonstrate the usefulness and beauty of back roads and attract visitors to lesser known areas.
The
ABC Charity donates school supplies to teachers
By Sarrah Peters
News Editor
On Wednesday, August 5, the teachers of Walnut Park Elementary School received the gift of supplies for the classrooms.
Anna Dobbins started A.N. Battles Charity, otherwise known as ABC Charity in honor of her grandmother, who loved children and taught Bible school for years. The aim of the charity is to provide teachers with supplies, so
Gadsden Job Fair deemed a success
By Sarrah Peters
News Editor
On Wednesday, August 5, the Senior Activity Center on Broad Street was host to a job fair held by the Gadsden Career Center and City Councilman Thomas Worthy.
The job fair was wildly successful, with hundreds showing up.
“We counted over 400 in the first hour,” said Worthy.
The point of the job fair was to
RBC Library hosts reward party
By Kaitlin Fleming
Staff Correspondent
Rainbow City Library held its annual reward party for the summer reading program on July 29. The children enjoyed pizza donated by Papa John’s, ice cream and a magic show performed by Russell Davis.
The party was for children who accomplished their reading goals in the allotted time period during their summer break. The children had
Christian owned Big Chief takes stand for Glencoe
By Lindsey Seagraves
Staff Correspondent
On a Thursday morning in a town fearing its religious freedom, one local business took a stand that has gained the City of Glencoe positive national recognition.
Big Chief owners Jeff and Regina Word were among other saddened Glencoe residents learning the news of the City of Glencoe’s removal of the Christian flag in front of
Pious Bob – Seeking the Lord has no Barriers
You have probably seen TV commercials for a medicine or treatment that describe a product while showing people doing lots of neat things as if the medicine or treatment would turn their lives totally around. As the joy and wonder on their faces is being shown and the product is described, there is something else going on in the
The Vagabond – A History of Gadsden 1836-1900 Part 5 – Final
The Vagabond recently pulled up an article from the Etowah Historical Society library called “Early History of Northeast Alabama,” which contained a section called “A History of Gadsden” by Charles P. Smith, the mayor of Gadsden in 1905-1906. Smith was known as “The Hooter of Owls Hollow” who wrote his reminiscences. He wrote six extremely interesting and historically valuable essays,
Craig Ford – Republican legislators need to stop blaming Democrats and start leading
The wheels have come off the bus in Montgomery.
That’s the only way to describe what’s happening in our state legislature. Now more than ever is the time for legislators to reach across the aisle and work together to solve this budget crisis. But instead, Republican legislators are attempting to blame Democrats because they can’t pass their own tax
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