Nonprofit Man Up Gadsden advocates for men’s health
By Katie Bohannon News Editor While June signifies Men’s Health Month, dedicating several weeks to educational campaigns and advocacy for men’s health nationwide, one Etowah County organization encourages men to consider their wellness year-round. As local nonprofit Man Up Gadsden prepares to host its annual Blue Ball on Friday, June 11 to benefit men’s health, […]
Casting on the Coosa: The boathouse and bilge pump blues
By Marty Dixon/Staff correspondent It’s been a week of dod-ging rain and getting together a fishing report of some kind. We can start with this past weekend, when my river time was cut down to only a few hours late Sunday after-noon. My wife Texann and I had The Hurricane most of the weekend since […]
Westbrook’s Starzl highlights all-area boys soccer
Photo: Westbrook Christian’s Nathan Starzl (center) draws the attention of a pair of Boaz defenders during the first round of the Class 4A/5A state soccer playoffs last April. (Courtesy of Jeff Atkins Photography) By Chris McCarthy, Publisher/Editor His team-high 25 goals and 19 assists aside, Nathan Starzl’s contribution to the 2021 Westbrook Christian boys soccer team […]
Matt Kennedy steps down at Westbrook Chrisitan
Messenger file photo by Chris McCarthy By Chris McCarthy, Publisher/Editor Westbrook Christian’s 11-1 Game 3 victory over G.W. Long in the Class 2A state championship series on May 18 turned out to be Matt Kennedy’s last with the Warriors. Earlier this week, Kennedy (pictured above) resigned his positions as the school’s baseball coach, athletic director and […]
Blake Bone to coach Etowah baseball
Messenger file photo by Chris McCarthy By Chris McCarthy, Publisher/Editor Attalla, here we come. After 13 years as head baseball coach at Gadsden City and Southside, Blake Bone is heading west on Meighan Boulevard to take the same position at Etowah High School. Bone replaces Brandon Johnson, who in three seasons led the Blue Devils to […]
Ashville student-athletes win prestigious award
Photo by Becky Staples 2021 Ashville High graduates Nick Spears and Meghan McCarthy were recently selected as the recipients of the 2021 Jim Nunnally Award. Since 1968, the award has been given to the school’s male and female athlete that best represent Ashville High School and the City of Ashville through the facets of high […]
Legals for 6/11/2021 – 6/17/2021
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE STATE OF Alabama, COUNTY OF ETOWAH Default having been made of the terms of the loan documents secured by that certain mortgage executed by Joel Wayne Teal Kathy R Teal Husband And Wife to MVB Mortgage Corporation dated February 24, 2009; said mortgage being recorded on March 17, 2009, as […]
Keep Smiling with Rosie Preston: Reading, writing and storytelling
By Rosie Preston If questioned whether I love to read or write the most, I would say it would be that I’ve read far more books than I’ve written articles since I began to write at The Messenger newspaper in 1998. I choose to read and write different genres because it is like you are […]
The Vagabond: Amelia Earhart in Gadsden
By Danny Crownover Joan (pronounced Jo Ann) Mims recently showed The Vagabond a photo of herself as a baby being held under an airplane among a group of people that included Amelia Earhart. Joan provided me with an article about the incident written by Benjamin S. Bradford. It reads: “Myrtice Stanfield Brooks [the mother of […]