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Redland Elementary School kindergarten teacher Melanie Baker doesn’t see herself doing anything other than teaching young children.
Cliff Williams
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Redland Elementary School kindergarten teacher Melanie Baker doesn’t see herself doing anything other than teaching young children.
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.
Getting cash from the bank has just become easier for Stanhope Elmore High School students with accounts with First Community Bank of Central Alabama.
Many think a grandmother’s china collection is for display only. With its stories of coming out only for special occasions and how it has been passed down for a generation or two, fear of brea…
The only thing missing in downtown Wetumpka Saturday was Cinderella's carriage to take her back before midnight.
It was all smiles in downtown Wetumpka Thursday night as the Wetumpka Area Chamber of Commerce hosted its first young professionals event.
A Millbrook police officer thought he was going to be writing a speeding ticket Thursday. But it quickly turned into more.
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.
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 …
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…
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…
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.
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…
If you have a child or grandchild in the Alexander City Schools district, you might want to attend the Alexander City Council meeting Monday night.
Mr. John Lester Starling, 66 years old, went to be with the Lord on Dec. 12, 2025.
1934 - 2026
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…
