Girls cross-country meet 9-10-26
Article and photos by Alex Chaney On Thursday, Sept. 10, local cross-country teams faced off in the 2026 Southside-Rainbow City Invitational race at the Vivian Maddox Sports Complex in Rainbow City. The rankings for the girls were as follows: 11th – Sarah Ponder, SR at Hokes Bluff (22:40.64) 12th – Sara Davis, 7th grader at […]
Boys cross-country meet 9-10-26
By Alex Chaney On Thursday, Sept. 10, local cross-country teams faced off in the 2026 Southside-Rainbow City Invitational race at the Vivian Maddox Sports Complex in Rainbow City. The rankings for the boys were as follows: 5th – Conner Christopher, SO at Southside-Rainbow City (17:24.67) 6th – Joseph Minkin, SR at Westbrook Christian School (17:29.54) […]
Theatre of Gadsden brings close shave to GSCC with Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd is a complicated and dramatic musical by one of America’s most accomplished composers. But more than that, it is the twisted tale of a tortured soul enacting an elaborate revenge scheme. Theatre of Gadsden and Gadsden State Community College are staging Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the tale […]
Gadsden City Council amends 2027 budget, transfers $75,000 back to Board of Education for school programs
By Caylie Moore, Features Editor On Tuesday, Sept. 15, the Gadsden City Council met for its regularly scheduled meeting to amend its budget for fiscal year 2027 and transfer a reported $75,000 to the Gadsden City Schools Board of Education from a miscellaneous payment account. District 1 Councilwoman Tonya Lynn Latham, who introduced and backed […]
Fourth and faithful
By Shawn Blackmon Everybody loves looking at the scoreboard. In sports, the scoreboard tells us who is winning and who is losing. In life, we have scoreboards, too. We count the money. We count the accomplishments. We count the followers. Churches count attendance. Businesses count revenue. Families compare where they are to where they thought […]
King Hotel, one of the first in Gadsden
By Danny Crownover One of the earliest hotels in Gadsden was the King Hotel on Fourth Street — located just south of Broad and Chestnut, on Fourth Street’s west side. It was between the Herzberg corner and Chestnut and Fourth — and it was part of one of the most unusual set-ups of the frontier […]
Forgiveness: What it is and what it isn’t
By Carrie Halladay “Just forgive and move on.” It sounds simple, but anyone who has been deeply hurt knows that forgiveness is rarely that easy. In counseling, I sometimes meet people who believe they should have forgiven someone by now. They may even feel guilty because anger, hurt or resentment remains long after the event […]
Running into the shadows
By Sandra Bost Written for National Suicide Prevention Week — for anyone walking through the shadows, and for those who stand watch in the dark. I was around four years old when my momma last tried to take her life. Nearly twenty years later, my husband and I came home to an answering machine message […]
E-Edition 09-18-26
E-Edition 09-18-26