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 […]
The Vagabond: History of Gadsden city officials, Part III
This week the Vagabond continues with naming all the known mayors and officials of Gadsden through 1968. 1920 Mayor Clyde Stevenson Mayor: Clyde Stevenson President of Council: W.P. Archer Aldermen: Edwin W. Pickard and R.D. Stanfield, First Ward; I.S. Johnson and Berry Malone, Second Ward; I.M. Bensinger and B. Caldwell, Third Ward; R.W. Camp and Carl Whorton, […]
Classifieds for the week of June 24- July 1, 2016
AUCTIONS AUCTION – MONDAY June 27th, 8am. Loading Dock South. 202 Rolling Mill Street Helena, Al. Building Sold 15,000 sq ft warehouse full of building materials. 1-205-612-4221. Asset Liquidators. Biz Clydette Hughes Al #1275. AUCTION – RICHEY Farm – Home with 108± acres. Offered in 10 tracts with 5 absolute. 3-story home on 12± ac […]
Legal notices for the week of June 24-July 1, 2016
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Alabama, ETOWAH County Default having been made pursuant to the terms of that certain mortgage executed by Wanda Sherrel Adair and husband, Albon D. Adair to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for First Franklin A Division of Nat. City Bank its successors and assigns, dated 09/11/06, said mortgage being recorded […]