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The Russellville Fire Department still has available several weather radios and smoke detectors – free to a good home.

The Franklin County Arts Council staged the 17th annual “Evening at the Roxy” during the week of the W. C. Handy Music Festival, featuring “The Great ...

July Fest, an annual community event in Vina, took place July 29. Vina Fire Chief Michael Moomaw said the festival benefits the rescue squad as well a...

After one month in business, Lee Nickels is settling in as a State Farm agent in Russellville.

Sending children back to school for their fall semester might bring to mind the cooler weather of autumn, but in the Deep South, the hot summer sun wi...

Thanks to Alisha Albright and the Family Guidance Center of Alabama, the first regular meeting of Franklin County’s Kids and Kin Program is right arou...

Franklin County Schools was recently pegged as the seventh safest school district in the state.

A process for alerting parents and the community when there is a school emergency has long been in place, but with the passage of a state bill earlier...

A hotdog cookout Thursday ended with the Russellville Fire Department being called to the scene of a house fire. Just before 7 p.m. July 27, the RFD r...

With the recent retirements of Myra Frederick, principal at Belgreen, and Kenny Sparks, principal at Red Bay, new leadership was a pressing need at th...