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RUSSELLVILLE — Some avenues and streets downtown will be closing Thursday afternoon in preparation for the 45th Franklin County Watermelon Festival. S...
Main, News, Red Bay
RED BAY —A second Flock Safety automated license plate reader has been installed as the city prepares for a special meeting Monday on a proposed polic...
Main, News, Russellville
RUSSELLVILLE — As cyberattacks on U.S. water systems climb nationwide, local officials say a combination of rigorous safety protocols and old-fashione...
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FLORENCE — The Tennessee Valley Area, including the Shoals, will be under a heat advisory starting at 1 p.m. Wednesday through 7 p.m. Friday. Heat ind...
Main, News, Russellville
RUSSELLVILLE — Pondering whether Florenceshouldestablish its own paving department, officials only had to look about 20 miles south to see the benefit...
Land Transactions
July 28 Patricia Anne Pratt to Tiffany Anne Borden, small estate affidavit Debra Aldridge and Cynthia Friend to Cassidy Bree Aldridge and Haylee A...
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RUSSELLVILLE – Franklin County Sheriff Shannon Oliver hasn’t seen much turnover within his department lately and he wants to keep it that way.
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RUSSELLVILLE — The Russellville City Council has approved a contract for Scott King to serve as a school resource officer (SRO) for the city schools....
Editorials
The district attorney’s office and school administrators in Franklin County and Russellville are participating in a program which aims to address trua...
Columnists
Alabama has earned some well-deserved credit for taking steps to combat civic amnesia. State law mandates that students pass a 100-question citizenshi...
Columnists
HERE AND NOW
Retired educators may have left the classroom, but they certainly have not stopped serving their communities.
News
CHEROKEE — The Forever Wild Land Trust is moving forward with plans to acquire additional property in Colbert County that would expand public hunting ...
News
RUSSELLVILLE — When Rhonda Miller opened Little Tigers Daycare in 1996, about 15 children attended during the first two weeks.
News
RUSSELLVILLE — A Tuscumbia man is facing more charges related to a 2023 case involving the report of several stolen firearms from a residence just ins...
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POLICE NEWS
RUSSELLVILLE — A Spruce Pine man died from injuries he sustained from a motorcycle crash Friday night after striking a dog in the roadway.
News
RUSSELLVILLE – The Alabama Department of Natural Resources (ADCNR) is encouraging all new or returning hunters to sign up and take part in its hunter ...
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WATERMELON FESTIVAL
PHIL CAMPBELL — Brody Nix tried guitar lessons when he was younger but stopped taking them when he was about 11.
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PHIL CAMPBELL — More than 20 years after meeting her husband, Hudon Franklin at Mountain Valley Hee Haw, Katie Franklin still takes part in the music ...
News
RUSSELLVILLE — Suburban Propane, which is located at the intersection of Alabama Highway 24 and U.S. Highway 43, is in the process of burning off prop...
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RUSSELLVILLE — Gayla Mills is beginning her 31st year in education and her first as West Elementary’s principal.
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RUSSELLVILLE — As Alabama students head back to school, there is a new incentive for staying out of trouble.
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RUSSELLVILLE — Channing Wright, former Russellville Elementary assistant principal, will begin the new school year in a new role, that of principal.
Franklin County
As school buses begin returning to roads across northwest Alabama this week, transportation officials remind parents, students and motorists the impor...
Columnists
Apparently, asking questions and raising community concerns now makes you a socialist.
Columnists
HERE AND NOW
I’ve seen firsthand the difference the Northwest Alabama Resource Conservation and Development Council (RC&D) can make. One reason I continue to appre...
News
RUSSELLVILLE — Russellville native Jacob Wallace has returned to West Elementary School, this time as assistant principal.
News
RUSSELLVILLE — Retirement gave Chris Johnson the chance to choose where he wanted to continue serving students, and that search led the Fairview nativ...
News
FLORENCE — Discussion about creating a department that would do the city’s paving appears to be gaining momentum with councilmembers saying they are i...
News
MONTGOMERY — Parole has been denied for two inmates serving prison sentences for Franklin County crimes, according to an update from the Alabama Board...
News
RUSSELLVILLE — A Vina man went before Franklin County Circuit Court Judge Brian P. Hamilton on Monday to find out if he will remain in jail after alle...
College Sports
FLORENCE — The University of North Alabama’s colors are purple and gold but the sight of green brought a great deal of excitement to supporters Friday...
News
RUSSELLVILLE — Audience members became the jury during the Franklin County Arts & Humanities Council’s production of “Fairytale Courtroom” last week a...
RUSSELLVILLE — Some avenues and streets downtown will be closing Thursday afternoon in preparation for the 45th Franklin County Watermelon Festival. S...
August 13, 2026
RUSSELLVILLE – Franklin County Sheriff Shannon Oliver hasn’t seen much turnover within his department lately and he wants to keep it that way.
August 12, 2026
RED BAY —A second Flock Safety automated license plate reader has been installed as the city prepares for a special meeting Monday on a proposed polic...
August 12, 2026
RUSSELLVILLE — As cyberattacks on U.S. water systems climb nationwide, local officials say a combination of rigorous safety protocols and old-fashione...
August 12, 2026
Alabama has earned some well-deserved credit for taking steps to combat civic amnesia. State law mandates that students pass a 100-question citizenshi...
August 12, 2026
The district attorney’s office and school administrators in Franklin County and Russellville are participating in a program which aims to address trua...
August 12, 2026
Retired educators may have left the classroom, but they certainly have not stopped serving their communities.
August 12, 2026
Apparently, asking questions and raising community concerns now makes you a socialist.
August 5, 2026
I’ve seen firsthand the difference the Northwest Alabama Resource Conservation and Development Council (RC&D) can make. One reason I continue to a...
August 5, 2026
Alabama’s commemoration of America’s 250th birthday was never intended to be confined to a single event, institution, or location. From the beginning,...
July 29, 2026
FLORENCE — The University of North Alabama’s colors are purple and gold but the sight of green brought a great deal of excitement to supporters Friday...
August 5, 2026
PHIL CAMPBELL — Fifteen years after the April 27, 2011, tornado destroyed Phil Campbell High School, a preserved piece of the old gym has found a perm...
August 5, 2026
Some people spend their lives trying to leave the town where they grew up. Others spend theirs making sure no one has to.For the Hill family, that hom...
July 29, 2026
Twelve-year-old Kinsley Benford finished runner-up in the 12U division of the Shoals Junior Circuit tournament in her first tennis tournament.
July 15, 2026
RUSSELLVILLE – Aidyn Kate Marshall was crowned the 2026 Franklin County Watermelon Festival Queen during the pageant held Saturday.
July 22, 2026