Southside, Etowah standouts highlight All-Messenger softball team
By Chris McCarthy/Editor A pair of standout pitchers who consistently helped their cause at the plate highlight the 2016 All-Messenger high school softball team. In being major factors in their teams advancing to the state tournament, Southside junior Savanna Yancey and Etowah senior Madison Grant are the team’s co-Players of the Year. Taking over as […]
In & around the SEC
SEC Year in Review In the last decade, the Southeastern Conference has been synonymous with championships. From 2006-2015, the SEC won multiple national titles in football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, baseball, softball, track and field and golf. In the 2015-16 season, however, the SEC only won one championship in those sports. The conference still represented […]
Brick Haley returns home for golf benefit
By Chris McCarthy/Editor Judging from the heavy turnout, the Brick Road to Success benefit golf tournament was a resounding success on June 24 at Twin Bridges Golf Course. Haley, a 1984 Emma Sansom High School graduate, was humbled by the sheer number of people who braved the near triple digit temperatures to participate in the […]
Beautiful Rainbow Catering hosts showcase
By Mary Elizabeth Dial Staff Correspondent The Beautiful Rainbow Catering Company and Garden hosted local leaders for lunch on June 16 at Litchfield Middle School. The caterers, young men with special needs from the Gadsden area, partnered with King’s Olive Oil to provide foods such as salad, focaccia and even orange and olive oil cake. […]
Animal Shelter to host food drive
By Sarrah Peters News Editor The Etowah County Animal Shelter will be hosting a food drive for the month of July. The shelter will be accepting cat and dog food at four locations throughout Etowah County. Hokes Bluff Trophy, located at 3739 Alford Bend Road in Hokes Bluff; West Etowah County Water Authority, located at […]
New honored by education network
By Sarrah Peters News Editor Gadsden/Etowah Chamber President Heather Brothers New was recently honored by The Alabama Afterschool Community Network by being named its Northern Municipal Champion. New was honored at the Northern Municipal Forum held at the Marriott Huntsville, at the Space and Rocket Center for her support of Gadsden afterschool educational initiatives. The […]
GPL offers summer programs
By Kaitlin Fleming Staff Correspondent According to Alabama State Records, Etowah County’s illiteracy rate for people over the age of 16 is at 14.1 percent. The state average proficiency in reading is 86 percent and Etowah County Schools are coming in above average at an impressive 89 percent. So what could be the cause for […]
Craig Ford: Pride, not people, that Gov. Bentley knows
One of the most famous scriptures in the Bible says, “Pride goeth before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall.” That scripture kept running through my mind this past week as Gov. Robert Bentley repeatedly claimed that he knows the people of Alabama “better than anyone” and that they are not interested in impeaching him. That […]
Pious Bob: Breastplates, Helmets and Bright Shining Days
St. Paul commissions the spiritual battle gear for the faithful in saying: “But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. For God has destined us not for wrath but for obtaining salvation through our Lord […]