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Sydney Boatner in GCHS spotlight

Courtesy of GCHS

Gadsden City High senior Sydney Boatner is this week’s GCHS Spotlight Student-Athlete of the Week. She is the daughter of Roger and Beth Boatner and the sister of 2015 GCHS graduate Nolan Boatner. 

Although the starting third baseman for the Lady Titan softball team, Sydney has a very impressive athletic resume and she is definitely not a

Rainbow City announces Chocolate Festival lineup

By Sarrah Peters

News Editor

On Wednesday, March 2, Rainbow City officials and Mayor Terry John Calhoun announced plans for the 11th Annual Alabama Chocolate Festival. The festival will take place at the Rainbow Plaza in Rainbow City on Saturday, April 2. Admission to the festival is free.

Calhoun commended city employees for volunteering their time to make the Chocolate a

Southern Bank celebrates its 80 year anniversary

By Sarrah Peters

News Editor

On February 24, Southern Bank in Gadsden held a ribbon cutting to celebrate a mile mark that many companies never see. Southern Bank has been serving Etowah County for 80 years, and the company hopes to continue to help area residents and businesses.

James B. Little, Sr. originally founded Southern Bank in 1936 as First Federal

Boynton speaks at Gadsden library

By Sarrah Peters

News Editor

The Gadsden Public Library’s Black History Month programs concluded on February 27 with a lecture by Attorney Bruce Boynton of the Supreme Court civil rights case of Boynton vs. Virginia. 

The father of Gadsden’s own Carver Boynton, Bruce Boynton is considered a “foot soldier” in the Civil Rights movement. 

  In 1958, while traveling home to Montgomery

Craig Ford – Why Alabama should allow early voting

This week, voters across Alabama went to the polls to cast their ballots and make their voices heard. In November, we will do it all over again.

More than three million people are registered to vote in Alabama, and in the last presidential election, 73 percent of those people actually turned out to vote. This November, turnout could be

Pious Bob – Becoming Recognizable

In the Gospel of Mark, we hear a man say something that many have a hard time saying today: “Now when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, ‘Truly this man was God’s Son!” (Mark 15:33-39).

On our last day will it be said of us that, “Truly this

Legal notices for the week of March 4-11, 2016

MORTGAGE

FORECLOSURE SALE

Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage dated November 29, 2007, executed by Michelle Mathews and Barry Steve Mathews, wife and husband, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., solely as nominee for Countrywide Bank, FSB, which mortgage was recorded on December 5, 2007, in Instrument No. 3284682, of the mortgage records

Classified for the week of March 4-March 11, 2016

HELP WANTED

Local non-profit is searching for an individual to coordinate volunteers and clients Monday – Friday. 

Computer skills, grant writing and speaking experience necessary. 20 hours per week. Send resume to: SEARCH COMMITTEE, P.O. Box 1623, Gadsden, AL 35902-1623. Deadline February 29, 2016.

HELP WANTED

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Drivers: Home Nightly.

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