I’ve been in Alexander City for more than two years and spent two great summers here, but there’s still so much I haven’t done. The life of a sports editor is a busy one; I’m constantly running from one event to another, trying to cover all our area sports as best as possible and attempting …
As the spring sports schedule started winding down, I have to admit I got a little bit excited knowing I was going to have some nights to myself without work for a while. Between baseball, softball and soccer, there was very little time for rest.
The most gifted teenagers in Elmore County are expected to enjoy fame, prosperity and achievement but will nonetheless experience failure and despair at some point in their lives.
Chronic illness is similar to mental illness in it isn’t widely advocated for, it’s something many don’t understand or have much knowledge of and it’s hard to talk about.
We’ve all heard the warnings about social media postings before. Whatever is posted on the internet stays there forever. You can never truly delete something. Those posts can follow you forever.
Even if you missed what happened at Churchill Downs on Saturday, there is no doubt you saw a post on social media about how instant replay was ruining another sports moment. After “The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports” appeared to be over, there were people in a small video room determini…
Folks, taking care of prisoners is not a popular political issue. However, every so often Alabama politicians pragmatically have to acquiesce to the mandates of federal judges and grant our transgressing citizens their rights as determined by the courts.
I was recently complimented on my work ethic and my immediate, candid, almost word-vomit response was, “I was raised that way.”
In his book “The Fellowship of the Ring,” J.R.R. Tolkien wrote, “The road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the road has gone, and I must follow, if I can, pursuing it with eager feet, until it joins some larger way where many paths and errands meet. And wh…
Over the course of my 25 years on this planet, I have had my fair share of encounters with doctors across the state of Alabama. Across 15 surgeries and numerous checkups, it is easy to say several of them have made a lasting impact on my life and my family.
Memorial Day 2019 at the corner of Harden and Kowaliga Road Eclectic beginning at 2 p.m. A s… Read more
As Americans, we all appreciate and support our troops and their families. Right? Of course we do.
With the passing of spring break, the end of the school year is in sight. Spring assessments are in progress for our third- through eighth-graders, and high school seniors are anxiously looking forward to graduation day.
Gov. Kay Ivey has been inaugurated and the legislature had its organizational session. Now it’s time for our state officials to get to work.
By STEVE FLOWERS
By LEONARD WOOLSEY
By LEONARD WOOLSEY
By DANIEL GARNDER
Everyone from Gov. Kay Ivey to the 1,000 volunteers who quickly mobilized to help have been in awe not only of the power of nature, as seen in Saturday’s tornado that ravaged the city’s west side Saturday afternoon, but of Wetumpka’s recuperative spirit.
Regardless of what happens in Donald Trump’s administration over the next two years, he will have a proven record of success as president, especially among conservative Americans.
You cannot get used to seeing that kind of destruction — trees through windows, roads shut down, horrified looks on everyone’s face. This is not what you want to see in your community.
By DANIEL L. GARDNER
Every once in a while, an NFL team looks so good after a few games, people begin to look down the schedule to see how long an undefeated season can actually last. We may never see another team run the table in the regular season en route to a Super Bowl title.
Since the end of last week, folks here in this neck of the woods have been worried about Alberto.
I used to love snow.
Hawaii is said to be the jewel of the Pacific.
The next – and, hopefully, final – legal battle between the City of Wetumpka and Alabama Power, AT&T and Spectrum over the relocation of poles that carry power, cable and telephone service to customers in the city’s historic downtown area will take place in the courtroom of Judge Bill Le…
It’s c-c-c-c-cold outside.
I hope that all of my readers enjoyed a Merry Christmas earlier this week and I wish each of you the happiest New Year.
There was a lot going on for yours truly in my first week (sort of) back at The Herald, both good and tragic.
Things that are rattlin’ around in my head …
It started out like a normal Friday.
I graduated from Elmore County High School in Eclectic on a May night in 1978.
Once again, we find ourselves asking that single most perplexing one-word question.
Today – Sept. 27 – is my birthday.
If Alabama’s State Department of Education wants someone to get it on the right track after the tumultuous tenure of Michael Sentance, then its board has picked the right man.
“GET OUT NOW!”
I wish that I hadn’t written about Donald Trump last week.
It looks like I won’t be the only one on vacation over the next few days.
Even though I sit here confined by the walls of my Green Street office, I can smell just the faintest hint of the southwest Alabama beach air.
My wife spent yesterday at home canning pickles.
There is a word that some have doggedly dismissed that the news of last Tuesday – July 11 – demands not be ignored.
Newsflash!
Wetumpka has some outstanding city employees.
I’m sure that some who flipped past the Scripps National Spelling Bee on ESPN on Thursday night kept right on clicking when they saw a bunch of kids on stage participating in a boring spelling contest.
Just when you think things might be approaching semi-normality in the Trump White House, things happen to blow any semblance of normality out of the proverbial water.
Monday was probably the most difficult day in my young tenure as managing editor for me to get out of bed and come to work.
May Day was no celebration of labor for the White House staffers charged with cleaning up the messes of or trying to interpret the sometimes-uninterpretable utterings of our president.
On Easter Sunday, Steve Stephens pulled up alongside 74-year-old Robert Godwin in his late model white Ford Fusion on a Cleveland street.
In 2010, now-disgraced former Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives Mike Hubbard penned a book titled ”Storming the Statehouse.” It was Hubbard’s account of how the Republicans in Alabama came to own in 2010 the majorities in both the state’s House and Senate for the first time sin…
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