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 things as the playoffs approach.
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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.
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.
An Alabama Department of Transportation access management project along U.S. Highway 231 in Wetumpka, will begin Monday, April 6, weather permitting.
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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…
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“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…
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