Southside’s Davis highlights all-area girls soccer team
Messenger file photo by Chris McCarthy By Chris McCarthy, Publisher/Editor Camryn Davis is making a name for herself in local soccer circles. The Southside High rising senior midfielder finished with18 goals and 22 assists this past season to help the 2021 Lady Panthers to a 15-2 record, an area championship and a berth in the Class […]
Ashville’s Drinkard, Glencoe’s Giles highlight All-Messenger girls track and field team
Messenger files photos by Alex Chaney and Chris McCarthy By Chris McCarthyPublisher/Editor Emma Drinkard and Katie Giles collected a fair amount of hardware this past spring. Drinkard, a sophomore at Ashville, and Giles, a sophomore at Glencoe, each took home 14 medals on the way to being named the 2021 All-Messenger Track and Field Ath-letes […]
U.S. Olympic athlete stops by the Y
Summer campers and counselors at the Coosa Valley YMCA gather for a photo with U.S. Olympic athlete Curtis Thompson (fourth from left on back row in blue shirt) last Tuesday (June 28) in Gadsden. Chris McCarthy/Messenger. By Chris McCarthy, Publisher/Editor Coosa Valley YMCA summer campers received quite a treat on Tuesday, June 28. U.S. Olympic […]
Locals propose transportation plan
Gadsden-Etowah Metropolitan Planning Organization member Steve Partridge (pictured on left) and Rod Willburn of Willburn and Associates gather for a photo following a meeting concerning a long range transportation plan on June 24 at Rainbow City Hall. Izack Seahorn/Messenger. By Izack Seahorn, Staff Correspondent Steve Partridge of the Gadsden-Etowah Metropolitan Planning Organization and Rod Wilburn […]
Mental health response team proposed for county
Probate Judge Scott Hassell speaks at a Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration in 2020. By Emma Kirkemier, Staff Correspondent A woman walked down the middle of a county road with a shotgun. She was severely mentally ill and off her medication. She was confronted by an Etowah County sheriff’s deputy. This story could have gone […]
Coosa Valley Resource Conservation and Development Council sets seed give away for July 7
The Coosa Valley Resource Conservation and Development Council will be giving away vegetable garden seeds and a gallon bag of 8-8-8 fertilizer on Wednesday, July 7 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Wednesday, July 7 at the Etowah County Extension Office located in the Etowah County Annex Building at 3200A West Meighan Boulevard in […]
Etowah’s Davis, Sardis’ Bright lead off All-Messenger boys track and field team
Messenger files photos by Alex Chaney and Chris McCarthy By Chris McCarthy/Publisher/Editor A pair of local seniors went out with a proverbial bang in regard to their high school athletic careers. Etowah’s NyNy Davis and Sardis’ Torin Bright dominated the competition in four events on the way to being named the 2021 All-Messenger boys track […]
Modern Woodmen’s Morgan Lavender recently earns FIC Fellow Designation
Gadsden’s Modern Woodmen of America representative Morgan A. Lavender recently earned the designation, Fraternal Insurance Counselor, Fellow (FICF). The FICF title is an educational designation that can be earned by career life insurance representatives associated with fraternal insurance societies. Representatives devote more than one year to meet the examination and career development criteria set by […]
The Vagabond: Early blacksmith shops
By Danny Crownover By the 1950s, one could not find any old-time village blacksmith shops around town. There was a time when Gadsden had several such businesses located close to the Etowah County Courthouse. Back in the 1870’s and 1880’s, William Christopher had a blacksmith shop at the southwest corner of Chestnut and Fourth streets […]