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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 […]

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 […]

Legals for 9/18/2026 – 9/24/2026

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 Anthony B Henson, Lea J Henson to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as mortgagee, as nominee for Quicken Loans Inc., its successors and assigns dated January […]