Elmore County District Court Judge Glenn Goggans left Steven Sarandon Barnes’ bond set at $10 million cash Tuesday after hearing more details about charges Barnes raped a 5-year-old girl.
Images from Holtville High School as it held a graduation ceremony Friday night. Principal Kyle Futral proudly announced every graduate was considered college and career ready by state standards.
Haynes Ambulance is once again the emergency transporter in Elmore County after the county commission approved a new contract at Monday’s meeting.
Members of the Wetumpka Police Department will hold a firearms instruction class Saturday at 8 a.m. at the WPD firing range off U.S. Highway 231 between Highway 9 and Tutwiler State Prison.
Elmore County Schools superintendent Richard Dennis told the board of education at a special-called meeting Thursday the system has two possible properties to locate a middle school in Redland and the Elmore County Technical Center.
The Wetumpka Depot Players announced its production of “The Diviners” by Jim Leonard Jr. will be performed at AACTFest, the National Community Theatre Festival, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on June 19.
Tallassee’s Emma Grace Qiaowei Coyle and Eclectic’s James Allen Singleton Jr. have joined the elite club of those who have won the Joe Sewell Memorial Award and John Sewell Scholarship.
Gov. Kay Ivey and the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education announced 41 new classrooms will be funded through the Pre-K through 3rd Grade (P-3) Integrated Approach to Early Learning, including Wetumpka Elementary School which will receive $45,000.
The movie Son of the South began filming in Montgomery in April but the film extended its location into Wetumpka on Wednesday. From 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. the cast and crew were on site at the Bibb Graves Bridge in downtown to film a series of shots.
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The Joe Sewell Memorial Award Banquet was held Tuesday night at the Wetumpka Civic Center.
Picking up children after school at Wetumpka Elementary School should be less time consuming due to the implementation of a system known as Car Rider Pro.
A bill to virtually make abortion illegal and challenge a U.S. Supreme Court ruling is making its way through the Alabama Senate after being passed by the Alabama House of Representatives Tuesday.
The Wetumpka City Council approved a $400,000 incentives package Monday for River Region Medical Holdings LLC which is building a medical facility to provide specialist care in the community.
Almost five months after an EF2 tornado went through the city, a Wetumpka Strong luncheon celebrated the recovery now well underway.
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The Elmore County Community Foundation, an affiliate of the Central Alabama Community Foundation, kicked off scholarship season Thursday by awarding $37,200 in scholarships to 23 Wetumpka High School seniors.
“Bright Star,” a new musical from Grammy-, Emmy- and Academy Award-winning Steve Martin and Grammy Award-winning Edie Brickell, is running through May 11 at the Wetumpka Depot Theatre.
Former University of Alabama star running back Siran Stacy will be the keynote speaker at the 15th annual Joe Sewell Memorial Award Banquet May 7 at 6 p.m. at the Wetumpka Civic Center.
The Wetumpka Future Farmers of America Alumni Chapter is organizing an International Professional Rodeo Association-sanctioned event in Wetumpka on Friday and Saturday, alumni chapter president William Pierce said.
The Elmore County Commission had a crowd in the historic Elmore County Courthouse courtroom as it conducted business Thursday morning.
Alabamians are hungering for a lottery and will approve it if they get a chance to vote on it, according to the man who authored the bill that passed the Senate on Thursday.
When readers visit TPI’s newspaper websites today, including www.thewetumpkaherald.com, they will notice a fresh look as the new sites launched this morning.
Santana Wood has been promoted to assistant managing editor for Tallapoosa Publishers Inc., managing editor Jimmy Wigfield announced Monday.
With the escalating cost of college tuition and the shrinking job market for college graduates, youths should seriously consider attending a technical school instead, Elmore County Technical Center principal Jimmy Hull said.
Ron Drinkard walked about the scattered steel seeing what was left in the closing minutes of the steampunk competition at Saturday’s Tulotoma Art Trail.
The Wetumpka City Council voted 4-1 Monday to spend $9,350 on a study to improve the traffic flow downtown, especially on each end of the Bibb Graves Bridge.
Wetumpka will have five new police vehicles on patrol in the near future after the city council approved spending $38,946.25 to equip them with lights, sirens and markings.
Wetumpka Mayor Jerry Willis said the city is not going to rush its recovery plans in the aftermath of the Jan. 19 tornado but he observed the whirlwind may have cleared away old thinking and installed the underpinnings of a new era for the community.
The corporate limits of Wetumpka have grown a bit more after the city council approved annexing a parcel of land on the west side of the city during Monday night’s council meeting.
City officials and representatives from Ivy Creek Healthcare were in a festive mood Thursday afternoon as the ribbon was cut on a new phlebotomy lab located inside Elmore Community Hospital in Wetumpka.
Wetumpka businessman Pat Whatley has joined the growing list of individuals and groups doing what they can to support the community in the aftermath of the Jan. 19 tornado, donating $3,000 to local organizations.
The history of Wetumpka and the First Presbyterian Church are intertwined all the way back to 1834. The legislature approved the incorporation of the City of Wetumpka in January of 1834, and in 1836 members of the Presbyterian Church, Rev. Fields Bradshaw and Rev. Alexander Cunningham met to…
Local officials and stakeholders braved rainy conditions Friday afternoon for the groundbreaking ceremony of the River Region Medical Center in Wetumpka.
Officials with Alabama Power Company donated $10,000 Monday toward Wetumpka’s tornado relief efforts.
A parcel of land on Highway 231 that will soon be transformed into the River Region Medical Center now within the corporate limits of the city of Wetumpka after the Wetumpka City Council approved a motion to annex the property during Monday night’s council meeting.
Representatives of Faith Baptist Church in Wetumpka donated $6,700 to the Wetumpka Police Department Friday morning to help its recovery from the Jan. 19 tornado that destroyed police headquarters and five patrol vehicles.
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Approximately 50 guests gathered at the Wetumpka Civic Center Sunday afternoon for the Friends of the Wetumpka Library’s annual Murder on the Menu event.
Gov. Kay Ivey announced Friday that Alabama businesses and residents affected by severe weather and a tornado on Jan. 19 can apply this week in Wetumpka for low-interest disaster loans from the Small Business Administration.
Prior to this season, there were a lot of things Wetumpka’s wrestling program hadn’t done.
Downtown Wetumpka will come alive with revelry on March 2 as the city celebrates its seventh annual Mardi Gras festival and parade, held by The Order of Cimarrón and sponsored by Wind Creek Casino.
At its next meeting, the Wetumpka City Council can take action on four proposed ordinances regarding annexation and other important property matters following first readings of each ordinance at Tuesday afternoon’s meeting.
Wetumpka Mayor Jerry Willis and a handful of local citizens gathered at Wetumpka City Hall Feb. 13 for a public hearing regarding development grants, particularly for the airport, medical facility and damaged infrastructure.
The Elmore County African-American Heritage Association will hold its second annual Black History Month program on Feb. 17 at the New Beginning Holiness Church in Wetumpka.
Nearly a month after an EF2 tornado devastated parts of Wetumpka and Elmore County, stormy weather reared its head again across the area Tuesday morning, knocking down trees and power lines.
A bumblebee floated through an afternoon breeze that felt like the embrace of a warm, sun-kissed towel right off the clothesline and gently landed on one of Sharon Watson’s blooming yellow daffodils, the ones unbowed by a tornado three weeks earlier in Wetumpka that heaved pillars off her po…
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