Ford selected as Auburn Plainsman
Gadsden native and Auburn University junior Jon Ford recently was selected as one of the elite 2016-2017 War Eagle Plainsmen.
The group of 12 women and 12 men serve as the official hosts and hostesses of Auburn University and work directly under the President and Board of Trustees’ offices.
Ford is a 2013 graduate of Westbrook Christian School in
Nonfiction author visits Hokes Bluff schools
By Sarrah Peters
News Editor
All month long, students at Hokes Bluff Elementary and Hokes Bluff Middle Schools have been getting “wild about reading.” As part of the Reading Across America campaign, students held a character parade, dressed as bugs for “Buggy for Books” day, celebrated Dr. Suess’s birthday and read books.
To get kids even more amped about reading, Heather
Gardner receives National Distinguished Principal Award
By Sarrah Peters
News Editor
On Friday, March 11, Hokes Bluff Elementary School Principal Charles Gardner entered his school’s auditorium for a career day for his students. At least that is what he thought was happening. With the help of students and staff, Etowah County Schools Superintendent Dr. Alan Cosby planned a surprise for the principal to present him with the
MANNA bids farewell to director
By Sarrah Peters
News Editor
MANNA recently bid farewell to director Duyen Stokes, who has been with the program for 19 years. Exchange Bank and MANNA volunteers held a luncheon in her honor on Friday, March 11. After the luncheon, volunteer Pudden MacArthur presented Stokes with a poster signed by all the MANNA volunteers.
MANNA is a non-profit company that provides
Craig Ford – State employees deserve pay raises, too
Alabama’s state employees are the unsung heroes who keep our state running. But they also have been neglected and left out for far too long. If Gov. Robert Bentley can find a way to give his cabinet and staff members 80 percent pay raises, surely we can find a way to give our state employees four percent!
State employees
Pious Bob – Joy in Giving Credit Where it is Due
St. Paul reminds us concerning the origin of the word: “We also constantly give thanks to God for this, that when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word but as what it really is, God’s word, which is also at work in you believers.” (1 Thessalonians 2:9-13,17-20).
The Vagabond – Stories of Blind Tigers in Etowah County
Last week The Vagabond met a young lady from Huntsville, Sarah Belanger, who is writing a book about Prohibition in Northeast Alabama. The Vagabond in the past wrote about the local Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and the little fountain that was built at the corner of Broad and First streets in front of Gadsden City Hall. There were
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Whereas, default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Joshua Tate Fielding, a single man, to Alabama Teachers Credit Union on the 14th day of December, 2011, said mortgage being recorded at Instrument #3359735, Mortgage Records, Office of the Judge of Probate of Etowah County, Alabama, and the undersigned, by