City to improve traffic at major intersection
(Photo by Chris McCarthy/Messenger) Gadsden Mayor Craig Ford was recently notified that the State of Alabama had awarded the city more than $400,000 to ease congestion at a major intersection near the Meighan bridge. The funds will be used to reconfigure the turning lanes at the intersection of Hood Avenue and U.S. Highway 431 (pictured […]
Gadsden State to host free workshops for veterans, active-duty military
Gadsden State Community College is hosting resource workshops for area active-duty military, veterans and their families. The first workshop will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. January 24 in Room 210 of the Joe Ford Center on the East Broad Campus. The workshops are free and are sponsored by the Alabama Association of Resource […]
Legals for 01/20/2023 – 01/26/2023
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 Kevin Crowder And Stacy Crowder Husband And Wife to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as mortgagee, as nominee for First Federal Bank, A FSB, its successors […]
Steve Smith hired as Westbrook football coach, AD
Photo: Steve Smith speaks to the Westbrook Christian student body after being introduced as the school’s head football coach and athletic director last Tuesday (Jan. 17) in Rainbow City. (Chris McCarthy/Messenger) By Chris McCarthy, Publisher/Editor Upon the retirement of Drew Noles as Westbrook Christian’s head football coach and athletic director this past December, the school administrators […]
Coosa Christian hires Rush Propst as co-head football coach
Photo: Rush Propst (pictured at left) fields a question during the news conference for his hiring as Coosa Christian’s co-head football coach last Monday (Jan. 16). Sitting with Probst is Coosa Christian head football coach Mark O’Bryant. (Chris McCarthy/Messenger) By Chris McCarthy, Publisher/Editor Mark O’Bryant’s vision of pushing the Coosa Christian football team into the state’s […]
Glencoe to host county basketball tournament
Photo: Kytha Edwards (right) and the Sardis High girls basketball team will defend their title during this week’s Etowah County Schools Basketball Tournament at Glencoe. (Courtesy of Alex Chaney) The brackets are set for the 2023 Etowah County Schools Basketball Tournament this week at Glencoe High School. Monday, January 16 Girls bracket: 5:30 p.m. – No. 4 […]
Southern Cooking with Andy Bedwell – Breakfast foods
By Andy Bedwell Let’s begin this year with one of my favorite food combinations for breakfast. Whether you feel like making it ahead and sleeping in or whisking it up after your first cup of coffee, I have you covered with a breakfast that everyone will want to wake up to. Sausage Quiche 3/4 pound […]
Hard 75 back on the table
By Vicki Scott January marks the start of another year of writing articles for The Messenger. It is an honor to have written this long for this newspaper, and I praise God to everyone involved in making this possible. It is hard to believe the amount of people who read my gibberish, but I praise […]
From God’s word – The view from our watchtowers
By Toni Ford I’ve been reading through the Old Testament prophets recently. Although these books are usually only one to five chapters long, I have found them to be filled with great wisdom and promises from our Lord. Habakkuk, which is only three chapters in length, is one of those books. A contemporary of Nahum, […]