At least seven Wetumpka students are OK after passing out from dehydration Thursday afternoon outside the school’s running track.
Wetumpka native Shirley Ross DeVenney was honored with a lifetime achievement award at America’s Youth of Parade national twirling contest in July.Â
Main Street Wetumpka, a nonprofit organization dedicated to revitalizing its historic business district, was recently awarded a $20,000 grant to help fund a cultivating place project in the heart of its downtown.
It was all fun for a serious cause as members of the Wetumpka Rotary Club cooked a pancake breakfast for the Bart Hart Memorial Scholarship Fund at the Must Stop Cafe on Saturday.
Wetumpka singer/songwriter Madeline Mae will perform from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Equality Performing Arts Center (EPAC) in downtown Equality.
Today is recognized as National Senior Citizens Day.
The Wetumpka City Council unanimously approved adopting a transportation plan after a heated discussion at its meeting Monday.
Alabama gas prices have fallen 3.5 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.31 Monday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 3,348 stations.
What started as a private home and garden is turning 90 years old.
Mocha is a super loving and striking Catahoula girl, 1 1/2 years old. Mocha is mostly housetrained but does prefer her time outside. She must have a well-fenced yard to keep her safely at home. She loves children and is good with other dogs, just not sure about cats. She walks well on a leas…
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We are very blessed with the incredible support we get from the community on a daily basis. If we put out a need for food or cleaning supplies or about anything, it is quickly met with multiple drop offs and deliveries from UPS and FedEx.
Accolades were the name of the game for the Wetumpka High School Future Farmers of America at the state convention in June. The chapter took home multiple banners, was named a superior chapter and had students earn officer positions.
The Elmore County Commission learned at Monday’s meeting an energy savings program instituted two years ago has already shaved $500,000 off utility bills at its facilities.
It was miraculous nobody had accepted the Wetumpka First Presbyterian Church’s longstanding invitation to enter its unlocked sanctuary and pray on the afternoon of Jan. 19 when a tornado turned its 162-year-old walls and roof into kindling.
How is it a dog who was afraid of his own water bowl made inmates run in fear? A dog who was so gentle with children be so fierce when he descended into the drug-infested bowels of prisons? A dog who came to be nicknamed Knucklehead because he uprooted garbage cans could sniff out 75 pounds …
The deaths of two men in a boat crash on Lake Jordan the night of July 4 is exactly why Elmore County District Attorney Randall Houston pushed for those who drink and drive on the water to be punished as severely as those who drive under the influence on the roads.
Marcus Edwards was denied an immunity claim in Thursday’s hearing but evidence presented in the self-defense hearing indicates at least two guns were fired in a 2016 triple death incident in Wetumpka.
The Wetumpka City Council on Monday unanimously approved rezoning a property on West Bridge Street from residential to business for the owners to practice law there.
Jody Mulder, an Eclectic resident, has joined the Tallapoosa Publishers Inc. team as a marketing consultant.
The Montgomery Emblem Club recently donated a $175 check to benefit the children’s programs at the Wetumpka Public Library. The club started in 1949 and presents funds to benefit a number of community programs, including drug awareness, nursing homes and literacy projects. This was its first…
Alabama set five new economic records in June, including a new low for unemployment, but the news wasn’t as good for Elmore, Coosa and Tallapoosa counties, according to the state department of labor.
Like most 12-year-olds on summer vacation, Kari Williamson watched television July 29.
A newly formed company began Monday in Wetumpka to build a high-speed internet system it hopes will benefit rural customers in Elmore and Coosa counties beginning in January.
Businesses have been opening all over Wetumpka in recent weeks, including the Family Sunshine Center, Eagle Motor Group and Heart 2 Heart Uniforms.
Members of Wetumpka’s First Presbyterian Church, which was obliterated by January’s tornado, have tentatively scheduled a groundbreaking ceremony for a new sanctuary Aug. 11.
A long-awaited $1.3 million streetscape improvement project in downtown Wetumpka began Monday and engineers plan for the freshly paved streets, new sidewalks, drains and landscaping to be completed before the Christmas shopping season.
Main Street Wetumpka has awarded a $9,500 AARP Community Challenge grant to help beautify a downtown alleyway between Company and Hill streets.
State Rep. Mike Holmes (R-Wetumpka) has pre-filed legislation to eliminate Alabama’s traditional income tax and sales tax system and replace it with a system of taxation based on consumption.
State Sen. Clyde Chambliss (R-Prattville) announced he has decided against running for the U.S. House of Representatives seat held by incumbent Martha Roby, who said she will not seek reelection in 2020.
Elmore County Public Schools announced Monday its policy for free and reduced-price meals for children served in schools under the National School Lunch Program and/or School Breakfast Program.
With the mother of one of the men he is accused of killing watching intently from the front row, Damion Bruno made his initial appearance in Elmore County Circuit Court on Tuesday and the judge refused to lower his $750,000 bond.
A boat operator involved in a July 4 fatal boat crash on Lake Jordan has been arrested and charged with multiple offenses.
The Elmore County Economic Development Authority is asking citizens to complete a survey to gather accurate broadband information.
Annalisa Vinson could not have imagined two years ago finding $11,000 cash in a tattered, donated suitcase would change her life.
Clay Jackson was where he wanted to be on the afternoon of July 4 — surrounded by family and friends, floating on Lake Jordan, thinking about the surprise engagement ring he had bought for his girlfriend, enjoying his 6-week-old daughter dressed in red, white and blue, and looking forward to…
The parents of Travis House, who was killed in a boating crash on Lake Jordan on July 4, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the operator of one of the vessels.
The Elmore County Commission on Monday raced forward with its plan for using money from the new gas tax increase by unanimously approving 36 miles of road projects and taking advantage of just over $1 million in Rebuild Alabama funds.
The Kelly Fitzpatrick Memorial Gallery is sponsoring a trip to the Georgine Clarke Gallery of the Alabama State Council on the Arts in Montgomery on July 30.
Motor vehicle collisions are the leading cause of death among teenagers with inattention the biggest factor, accounting for a third of fatalities in drivers ages 16 to 19, and a UAB study is delving deeper into the findings.
The Wetumpka City Council on Monday unanimously approved to surplus a 963 front end loader at the landfill and trade it for a Genie 60-foot lift of equal value.
Elmore County Emergency Management Agency director Keith Barnett urged the county’s mayors last week to establish volunteer groups to assist first responders in disasters and advocated turning away from a reliance on sirens to warn of tornadoes.
The Elmore County Commission is putting the pedal to the metal to determine which roads and bridges it will use Rebuild Alabama funds for and urged the county’s mayors last week to seek joint projects to stretch the dollars further.
A Wetumpka woman was killed in a boat crash early Saturday morning on the Alabama River, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.
A Wetumpka man tried to force a cashier to come with him after committing an armed robbery at a local convenience store Monday morning, authorities said.
Kids at Adullam House in Wetumpka were treated to a special visit Wednesday when former Alabama football star O.J. Howard came to campus to hang out for the morning. Howard, who now plays for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFL, grew up in Prattville and returned home for some time during th…
A Wetumpka woman was killed in a boating accident around midnight Saturday morning on the Alabama River near Wetumpka, according to a release from Capt. Gary Buchanan.
Millions of miles of testing in nearby Lee County will lead to Elmore County making millions of dollars of paving material last longer on its streets, roads and highways.
Most times when police gather in a bank, it’s because of a robbery.
The Elmore County Commission said Monday it has created an email address for residents to report complaints about trash pickup by Advanced Disposal, which is working to add a truck and a driver for the county, according to commission chairman Troy Stubbs.
The bodies of two men who went missing after the boat they were riding on collided with another vessel following a fireworks show Thursday night were retrieved from Lake Jordan Saturday afternoon.
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