With worsening drought conditions across the state and low relative humidity, Alabama Forestry Commission forester Rick Oates has issued a statewide Fire Alert effective immediately.
After a fulfilling experience at the Electric Cooperatives of Alabama Youth Tour, a Reeltown High School junior is headed to Washington, D.C.
Editor’s Note: Tallapoosa Publishers Inc. reports these police incidents exactly as they are reported to us.
New Site’s walking trail project will be officially completed April 14.
Among the red brick buildings on Bridge Street in downtown Wetumpka, one door is a little different.
There is an ongoing investigation into a Sunday shooting near downtown Wetumpka.
The beginning of an annual event is just around the corner for residents of Alexander City, Dadeville and Camp Hill.
Getting cash from the bank has just become easier for Stanhope Elmore High School students with accounts with First Community Bank of Central Alabama.
Editor’s Note: Tallapoosa Publishers Inc. reports these police incidents exactly as they are reported to us.
The only thing missing in downtown Wetumpka Saturday was Cinderella's carriage to take her back before midnight.
Friday at the Edward Bell Career Technical Center was not one to miss for Tallapoosa County preschoolers.
A free local tutoring organization is preparing for its biggest event since beginning operations early this year.
It was all smiles in downtown Wetumpka Thursday night as the Wetumpka Area Chamber of Commerce hosted its first young professionals event.
When Ferst Readers of Tallapoosa County president Elaine Toney heard OGS Tournaments had not started signing up fishermen for its annual tournament months in advance, she was worried.
A Millbrook police officer thought he was going to be writing a speeding ticket Thursday. But it quickly turned into more.
Camp Hill police chief Corey Shaw left a safety recommendation for Camp Hill Mayor Juanita Woody regarding U.S. Highway 280 and County Road 89 South during Monday’s town council meeting.
New Site’s walking trail project will be officially completed April 14.
Everything surrounding the Joe Sewell Memorial Award keeps growing.
The Central Alabama Community College golf team has practically dominated on the green this year. The Trojans are ranked the No. 3 team in the National Junior College Athletic Association poll…
Just a short time since former Horseshoe Bend football coach Jeremy Phillips resigned, the Generals have found a new man to lead the team — former Beauregard and Wadley coach Shenan Motley, ac…
If there was one thing the Horseshoe Bend baseball team does not have to worry about, it’s the offensive production. However, there are still a few things to clean up on the defensive side of …
In a sport that is all about momentum and peaking at the right time, the Benjamin Russell softball team has worked out its kinks at the perfect moment. The Wildcats picked up their third-strai…
It was an offensive game on Tuesday for the Central Coosa baseball team in their second area series of the season.
In what could be the last Tallapoosa County softball tournament, with the imminent changes in the area set to take place, the Reeltown softball team traveled to New Site to face off against tw…
Benjamin Russell standouts meet with Volunteers
First of all, I just want to congratulate Steven Pearl and the Auburn basketball team for bringing home another championship to the Plains. It might not be the one they had envisioned at the b…
It was a front-loaded week for the Reeltown baseball team, facing off against Lanett in an area doubleheader, then showcasing some Southern Hospitality to Dublin Jerome out of Ohio.
According to Horseshoe Bend softball coach Hagen Whiteard, Lily Moss is not one of those loud eccentric leaders on the field. But where she thrives is leading with the plays made on the field …
After losing the area title on a coin flip last season to its rivals, the Wetumpka girls soccer team came into this season with goals and a score to settle. Those goals? Simple.
No. 10 in Class 3A vs. the No. 10 in Class 2A — both reside in Tallapoosa County and are separated by around 30 minutes. To the victor go the spoils in the annual Tallapoosa County softball to…
The Wetumpka Indians (8-4-4, 3-0) entered this soccer season with a vendetta: beat Stanhope Elmore at all costs. Last season, the Mustangs shut out the Indians in their area game, winning 8-0 …
Anybody who ever worked with Ralph Frohsin organizing the Alex City Jazz Fest, knows how passionate he was about bringing the event to residents of the area.
There is something significant I’ve noticed since I’ve been back on the job.
We have a nine-member State Supreme Court. The U.S. Supreme Court is also comprised of nine members. The nine U.S. Supreme Court Justices are appointed for life. When one retires or dies, which is seldom, the President of the United States makes the appointment to fill the rare vacancy.
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived,” wrote Henry David Thoreau. That first sentence, the mission statement that o…
1942 - 2026
Mr. John Lester Starling, 66 years old, went to be with the Lord on Dec. 12, 2025.
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Faye Redding Holliday, 94, died peacefully on March 20, 2026, in Alexander City, AL., surrou…
Shares in the French fashion groups Kering and Hermes plunged Wednesday after both reported …
When Oleksiy Kravchuk joined the Ukrainian military at the start of Russia's invasion in 202…
In the jagged Hindu Kush in eastern Afghanistan, hundreds of men dug into the rocky bed of t…
Spanish singer Rosalia spent her early years training in classrooms, rehearsal spaces and sm…
Dutch tech giant ASML, which makes cutting-edge machines to manufacture semiconductor chips,…
Tottenham forward Maika Hamano scored the only goal as Japan ended the United States' 10-gam…
