Letters to the Editor, Opinion
A reported plan to introduce legislation that would privatize the Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) stores in Alabama fails to consider several important...
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor, Opinion
by Staff Reports
January 2, 2013
I am grateful to the leaders at Russellville Hospital for considering the health of their employees, patients and visitors in enacting a 100-percent t...
Letters to the Editor, Opinion
by Staff Reports
December 1, 2012
I am 15 years old and I am currently trying to get the city of Red Bay to name their new park after a purple heart recipient who fought on D-Day. I ha...
Letters to the Editor, Opinion
by Staff Reports
October 27, 2012
Dr. David E. Gregg, Vice President of the Tennessee Valley Historical Society, will be the Society’s speaker at its Fall Quarterly Meeting on Sunday, ...
Letters to the Editor, Opinion
by Staff Reports
September 22, 2012
This is addressed to the gaggle of ladies at Walmart that need to find more to do with their time than gossip. Ladies you know there are disabled peop...
Letters to the Editor, Opinion
by Staff Reports
September 12, 2012
For a long time, Franklin County and other pockets of rural North Alabama had historically been known as Democratic hotbeds. Much of that is credited ...
Letters to the Editor, Opinion
by Staff Reports
August 25, 2012
On behalf of Russellville City Schools Career and Technical Education and the Russellville High School FFA Chapter, I would like to say thank you to t...
Letters to the Editor, Opinion
by Staff Reports
August 18, 2012
We hear it everyday from patients. “I have always dreaded going to the dentist.” Honestly, it’s completely normal to be apprehensive at the dental off...
Letters to the Editor, Opinion
by Staff Reports
August 4, 2012
The National FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) Leadership Conference was recently held in San Antonio on June 28 through July 3. This conferen...
Letters to the Editor, Opinion
by Staff Reports
August 4, 2012
On behalf of the Franklin County Arts and Humanities Council, I want to thank all the performers, sponsors and supporters of the W. C. Handy “Evening ...
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