+2 News Featured Pastor urges not just monitoring, but full clean-up of benzene contamination zone Siri Hedreen Aug 28, 2021 A 13-year-old environmental crisis declared “under control” by a 2008 Outlook headline is now seeping back into the public discourse.
+4 News Featured Alex City Schools puts new BRHS on hold and 'until what time, we have no idea' Siri Hedreen Aug 25, 2021 The Alexander City Board of Education, already months behind schedule, has yet to secure a construction contract for the new Benjamin Russell …
Outdoors Summer celebrates reinvigorated Alabama Gulf seafood By David Rainer Jul 9, 2017 It seems like eons ago when Alabama and the rest of the states on the Gulf of Mexico were collectively staring at a potential apocalypse that …
Archives Don’t dirty the water By Kathryn Braund Aug 19, 2015 Lake Martin is the cleanest and most beautiful lake in Alabama and was designated by the state as the first (and only) “Treasured Alabama Lake…
News Don’t dirty the water By Kathryn Braund Aug 19, 2015 Lake Martin is the cleanest and most beautiful lake in Alabama and was designated by the state as the first (and only) “Treasured Alabama Lake…
Opinion Red Snapper in the Gulf: Like catching fish in a barrel By David Rainer Jun 14, 2011 The sonar bottom machine read 120 feet as the inert bottom about 29 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico suddenly came alive. The graph lit up with…
Opinion Positive changes in fishing aspects of Gulf oil By David Rainer Jun 1, 2011 Capt. Bobby Abruscato pushed the throttle forward as he maneuvered the 24-foot bay boat between pilings of the Dauphin Island Bridge and heade…
News Riley reflects on ethics, effect of natural disasters By Staff Reports Jan 17, 2011 By Tim Reeves
News BRHS grad gets close look at oil spill By Katie Cole Aug 17, 2010 For Samantha Haggerty, a University of Alabama student and Alexander City native, this summer’s biggest newsmaker – the Gulf oil spill – provi…