Gentiva Home Health raises food for Food Pantry
By Sarrah Peters, News Editor Gentiva Home Health recently hosted an employee food drive to benefit the Food Pantry at Christ Central Church in Rainbow City. Gentiva Home Health donated the equivalent of 8,500 pounds of food in food and money. Gentiva Home Health holds food drives with its employees every August at all its […]
Hokes Bluff City Fest to be held Saturday
By Sarrah Peters, News Editor Hokes Bluff will host its annual Hokes Bluff City Fest on Saturday, October 1 from 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. The festival will be held at Hokes Bluff City Park, located at 3301 Alford Bend Road in Hokes Bluff. Best of all, the festival is free to the public. The […]
Chick-Fil-A to host love Center fundraiser
By Sarrah Peters, News Editor Chick-fil-A will host a Spirit Night on October 3 from 4 to 9 p.m. to benefit The Love Center. To support The Love Center, pick up an orange slip of paper from the shelter. Present the orange slip when you purchase the food and Chick-fil-A will donate a percentage of […]
Local breast cancer survivor shares her story
By Sarrah Peters, News Editor Lana Calvert went to a routine mammogram last year and received harrowing news. She had a small lump in her breast. Calvert was sent for an ultrasound and then a biopsy before she was officially diagnosed with breast cancer. “I never thought I would have breast cancer,” said Calvert. “It […]
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Legals for the week of September 30 – October 7, 2016
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Phillip McCoy Wilson, Married and Faye Nell Wilson, Married, to Conseco Finance Corp.-Alabama, on February 26, 2002, said mortgage being recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Etowah County, Alabama, at Document #, […]
In & around SEC football
By Cole Frederick/Sports Correspondent Auburn Week 4 Review In the span of about two minutes last Saturday (Sept. 24), the Auburn Tigers went from believing they had just lost in heartbreaking fashion to LSU to discovering they had won. LSU quarterback Danny Etling appeared to have thrown a game-winning touchdown pass as time expired, but […]
Etowah ranked in Sept. 28 ASWA football poll
Class 7A Rank Record Points 1. McGill-Toolen 5-0 372 2. Hoover 4-1 268 3. Hewitt-Trussville 6-0 256 4. Central-Phenix City 4-1 212 5. Bob Jones 5-1 177 6. Lee-Montgomery 5-0 159 7. Davidson 4-1 108 8. Enterprise 6-0 101 9. James Clemens 3-2 59 10. Mountain Brook 4-1 46 Others receiving votes: Spain Park (3-2) […]
Area football players recognized
Three local players were nominated for the Alabama High School Athletic Association’s Prep Spotlight for the week of Sept. 23. West End junior quarterback Payne Stancil threw four touchdowns passes – all in the first half – in the Patriots’ 27-25 win over Pleasant Valley. Stancil tossed TD passes of 30 and 8 yards to […]