EDITORIAL -- FEATURE SPOT, Editorials, Opinion
With the continued growth of and focus on STEM principles – not just in Franklin County but nationwide and around the world – it’s encouraging to see ...
EDITORIAL -- FEATURE SPOT
EDITORIAL -- FEATURE SPOT, Editorials, Opinion
by Staff Reports
November 21, 2018
With the promise of a new industry in Franklin County comes the undeniable truth that our corner of Alabama is continuing to grow and flourish. We cel...
EDITORIAL -- FEATURE SPOT, Features, Lifestyles
by Staff Reports
November 16, 2018
We have a lot of difficult conversations with our kids. Money can be one of the most trying – mostly because it’s a constant lesson in teaching them t...
COLUMNS--FEATURE SPOT, EDITORIAL -- FEATURE SPOT, Features
by Staff Reports
November 14, 2018
C.S. Lewis once said, “Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. I...
EDITORIAL -- FEATURE SPOT, Letters to the Editor, Opinion
by Staff Reports
November 13, 2018
Dear editor, OK, it's time again for this bus driver to let her voice be heard. Within the past month we have had kids killed getting on or off the bi...
EDITORIAL -- FEATURE SPOT, Editorials, Opinion
by Staff Reports
November 1, 2018
Although community celebrations of Halloween and the fall season have dominated the past month, with days full of tricks and sweet treats, carnival an...
EDITORIAL -- FEATURE SPOT, Editorials, Opinion
by Staff Reports
October 22, 2018
With the holiday of tricks and treats approaching, now is a good time for us to remind everyone about the importance of taking a few precautions to ma...
EDITORIAL -- FEATURE SPOT, Editorials, Opinion
by Staff Reports
October 11, 2018
Although October might inspire visions of candy corn, costumes and pumpkin-spiced everything, there are several causes for people to champion, and we’...
EDITORIAL -- FEATURE SPOT, Letters to the Editor, Opinion
by Staff Reports
October 4, 2018
Dear editor, The 2018 2nd Annual Olan Cunningham Legends Youth Baseball Camp was held in Russellville. Johnny Mack Morrow, Alabama District 18 state r...
EDITORIAL -- FEATURE SPOT, Editorials, Opinion
by Staff Reports
October 3, 2018
A positive impact on this community, its newspaper and the business profession and civic leadership here was made by the life of the late Claude E. Sp...
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