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Mattie M. Dodd, Arvie Lee Hargett, Myrle Montgomery, Myrtle Southern, Jerry F. Whitehead
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Franklin Living
July 1, 2026
EAST FRANKLIN – Just off County Road 81 sits a small graveyard with around a dozen or so people who have been laid to rest over the past 200 or so yea...
Franklin Living
July 1, 2026
It’s no secret that I love a good thrift store! When I was in college in 1992 at the University of Montevallo, some of my home economic friends and I ...
Franklin Living
July 1, 2026
One of the greatest blessings many people enjoy is the privilege of living in a land of freedom. Patriotism, when understood properly, is not worship ...
Main, News, Russellville
July 1, 2026
RUSSELLVILLE — A woman who admitted to shooting and killing her husband last month pleaded not guilty during her arraignment on June 24. Sherri Mitche...
Main, News, Russellville, ...
July 1, 2026
RUSSELLVILLE — Customers have walked through the doors of Stidham Feed & Seed for more than half a century looking for everything from garden seed and...
Main, News, Russellville, ...
July 1, 2026
RUSSELLVILLE — In the event you find yourself on a trip to the Franklin County Archives, one of the first things you’ll see upon arrival is the name C...
Main, News, Red Bay, ...
July 1, 2026
MONTGOMERY — A former Red Bay day care worker convicted of manslaughter in the death of 4-month-old Autumn Wells will have to face her original senten...
Columnists, Opinion
HERE AND NOW
July 1, 2026
Summer tends to make it easier to say “yes” to socializing with friends. That’s what members of the Book Lovers Study Club did for their June meeting ...
Hundreds of items abandoned at local schools are finding a second life through clothing closets and community donations. Backpacks, jackets, textbooks...
July 1, 2026
This week, Franklin County residents are preparing for Saturday’s Independence Day celebration. It should be more than time to gather with family and ...
July 1, 2026
If readers haven’t been keeping up with the FIFA World Cup, I’m sure they have seen a flood across their algorithm of Europeans and other tourists vis...
July 1, 2026
By the time Thomas Jefferson dipped his quill in ink in the summer of 1776, he was drawing from a wealth of ideas more than five centuries old. Eight ...
July 1, 2026
For Janet and Max Todd, history isn’t something confined to books or preserved behind glass. It’s something meant to be lived in, and when possible, b...
July 1, 2026
