Everything surrounding the Joe Sewell Memorial Award keeps growing.
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If you keep up with state and national news, particularly related to health care and health care financing, you know that Alabama’s rural hospitals are facing an existential crisis. And it’s n…
 Editor’s Note: Tallapoosa Publishers Inc. reports these police incidents exactly as they are reported to us.
Earning an overall superior rating is not just about hitting every note perfectly.
An investigation that began in February into harassing communications and sexual extortion keeps leading to more.
Elmore County should have heeded James Spann non-traditional weather warning Saturday.
Step by step, members of the First Methodist Church of Wetumpka have crossed the Coosa River into downtown Wetumpka for a Cross Walk.Â
Along with thanks from Russell Medical executives, the Russell Medical Auxiliary membership were also honored with food, gifts and live entertainment.
Edward Bell Career Technical Center advisory board committee member Stacy Gunn visited the Tallapoosa County Board of Education to pitch a plan about bringing a modern manufacturing career tec…
How long does it take to find 6,000 Easter eggs? The answer is moments when the children looking are attending the First Baptist Church of Wetumpka Community Easter Egg Hunts. Hundreds of chil…
It took just a few minutes for area children to locate 1,000 eggs around Tallassee City Hall Saturday morning.
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Gibraltar Lodge 173 and God’s Extended Hand started Easter weekend with its annual Stop the Violence picnic.Â
Editor’s Note: Tallapoosa Publishers Inc. reports these police incidents exactly as they are reported to us.
Due to past due utility payments totalling $4.1 million, Alexander City Mayor Mike Densmore told the City of Alexander City City Council collections would have to become more serious.
In a forward-thinking decision several years ago, a partnership between Benjamin Russell High School and Central Alabama Community College is helping students reap big rewards.
Initially thought of as a victim of a crime, Latavian Brownfield, 20, of Sylacauga, is now a convicted murderer after he was found guilty by 12 jurors inside the CJ Coley Courthouse Annex on W…
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.Â
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 …
You could almost feel what was about to happen when Lily Moss stood in the batter’s box on Saturday. The sun was covered, the wind shifted in the right direction — and the pitch went right whe…
After Stanhope Elmore finished its best season in program history, two Mustang girls basketball players inked their commitments to continue their careers at the next level. This past season, S…
Tallassee Schools post football coach, athletic director job opening
Elmore County’s girls soccer team has been heating up right along with the weather this spring. The Panthers posted a strong start to the season, but had a bit of a drop off after the first fo…
Everybody knows you can’t win a baseball game with one player. It takes a whole team; all nine batters in the lineup, all four infielders, all three outfielders, not to mention a pitcher and a…
It doesn’t matter which sport or what circumstances, when Wetumpka and Stanhope Elmore face off it is guaranteed to be an absolute showdown. That was the case again last week, as the Mustangs’…
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.
With so much uncertainty going on in the world around us, it’s easy to forget just how small the Earth is in the universe.
A few years ago, I thought I was just having a normal day. I was doing my journalistic duties, hunting down an interview with then-Russell Medical CEO Jim Peace.Â
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…
Samuel Howard Miller of Wetumpka, AL, passed on to his Father in heaven on March 22, 2026. H…
"He was just the perfect gentleman."
He is urging others not to ignore persistent heartburn after being diagnosed with the deadly…
Both countries seem tired of the costs of war and ongoing risks, but successful negotiations…
An Israeli strike, one of multiple on the southern Lebanese city of Nabatiyeh on Friday, kil…
The cat's owner was stunned when a vet called her with news her long-lost pet had been found.
Their arrival to first-time parents Bonita and Manu is being heralded as a rare boost for th…
