Legals for 5/15/2020 – 5/21/2020
________________ NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Henry Culp, V, an unmarried man, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, acting solely as nominee for River Bank & Trust, on August 10, 2018, said mortgage being recorded in the Office of […]
Gaston hires Matt Harris as football coach
Messenger file photo by Chris McCarthy By Chris McCarthy, Publisher/Editor Matt Harris is leaving Sand Mountain for Shinbone Ridge. The Sardis High School assistant football coach recently was named head football coach at Gaston. Harris replaces Swane Morris, who resigned earlier this year to become an assistant coach at Pierce County High School in Blackshear, Ga. […]
Locals make all-state soccer teams
Messenger file photo by Chris McCarthy By Chris McCarthy, Publisher/Editor Southside High’s Isaac Franklin and Westbrook Christian’s Jai’Shawn Cattling and Will Edwards recently were named to the Alabama Soccer Coaches Association’s 2020 all-state boys soccer team. Franklin was selected to the Class 4A/5A team, while Cattling and Edwards were named to the Class 1A-3A team. A […]
Gadsden’s Walker to coach Decatur High boys basketball
Photo courtesy of Gadsden State Article courtesy of AL.com Gadsden State men’s basketball coach Deddrick Tarver has a significant hole to fill on his staff. This past week, Kory Walker, Tarver’s top assistant and a 1999 Gadsden High School graduate, was hired as boys head basketball coach at Class 6A Decatur High School. Gadsden State […]
Area schools impacted by AHSAA re-classification
Photo: Will Clemons and the 2021 Hokes Bluff baseball team will compete in Class 3A (Courtesy of Alex Chaney) By Chris McCarthy, Publisher/Editor Some local high school sports teams found themselves in new area and region alignments, others stayed put and a few programs were discontinued following the release of the Alabama High School Athletic Association’s […]
Casting on the Coosa…with Marty Dixon
Uncooperative fish and commiserating with The Bergens My brother and I fished a tournament this past Wed-nesday afternoon. Our efforts were to no avail, then than laughing at not getting bites and putting up with each other complaining about not getting any bites. We had a good turnout for the tournament, and, as always, Chief […]
The hunting chronicles…with Bobby Dale Welch
Tweety Birds and the East Gadsden National Forest I started hunting at a very young age. My dad took me squirrel, rabbit, dove, quail and deer hunting and he did a good job of making it fun for me. We lived in East Gadsden, so my early years were spent navigating The East Gadsden National […]