Franklin County

CollegeCounts – Alabama’s 529 college savings fund – offers awards of $4,000 for four-year college enrollees and $2,000 for two-year college enrollees...

Armed with constitutional approval to invest federal COVID-19 relief funds into the expansion of broadband services, Franklin County Probate Judge Bar...

With the new year, House Bill 272, which Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law March 10 this past year, became effective, thus bringing about a major change t...

Principals and student ambassadors from Tharptown and Belgreen thanked the members of the Franklin County Board of Education during their Jan. 19 meet...

A crowd lined up outside the A.W. Todd Centre in downtown Russellville Saturday evening, waiting to be admitted to the annual meeting and banquet of t...

The Belgreen Bulldogs took another important step this past toward starting football at the school. At its Jan. 17 meeting, the Franklin County Board ...

At the Franklin County Commission’s Jan. 17 meeting, the commission amended its previously-approved plan for maintenance of the courthouse elevator. I...

The Franklin County Board of Education has scored a coach for the Belgreen High School football program. At its Jan. 19 meeting, the board hired Luke ...

The Franklin County Branch of the nonprofit Dr. Martin Luther King Scholarship Committee held the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration March in...

It was a moment several years in the making Sunday afternoon when Jeffrey Wade Barksdale, Franklin County’s assistant district attorney since 2014, st...