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Area athletes compete at Holiday Invitational

December 14, 2020

Photo: Gadsden City’s Tanner Rice won the boys 800-meter run event at the Holiday Invitational indoor track...

In & around SEC football - Week 12 previews and predictions

December 11, 2020

By Cole Frederick/Sports Correspondent Alabama Week 11 Recap Alabama’s Revenge Tour continued last Saturday with a dominating 55-17 over LSU victory in Ba...

Casting on the Coosa: The Crappie Whisperer and The Hammer strikes again

December 11, 2020

By Marty Dixon/Staff Correspondent With the recent cold wea-ther, my fishing trips have been few and short in duration. Old age do...

Southside nips Blue Devils, 62-61

December 9, 2020

Photo: Etowah’s Trent Davis drives the lane as Southside’s Hunter Sitz, Spencer Sharpe and Owen Wescott...

Lady Panthers dispatch Etowah

December 9, 2020

Photo by Chris McCarthy/Messenger Lynnsey Hunt scored 10 points and Madison Shaw and Sydney Yancey each added nine in...

Westbrook’s Noles signs with UAH

December 8, 2020

Photo: Westbrook Christian senior Will Noles signed a baseball scholarship with the University of Alabama-Hu...

Area football players named to Class 2A, All-Region 6 team

December 8, 2020

Photo: Westbrook Christian senior linebacker Bryce Wood, pictured at left earlier in the 2020 season, was n...

Local runners compete at Magic City Invitational

December 7, 2020

Photo: Westbrook Christian’s Asher Curp (front) and Jackson Martin (rear) compete in the boys 1600-meter ru...

In & around SEC football - Week 11 previews and predictions

December 4, 2020

By Cole Frederick/Staff Correspondent Iron Bowl Recap Alabama jumped out to a 14-0 lead and never looked back en route to a 42-13 win over Auburn i...