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(Column) Legislative session begins next week

The 2024 legislative session is under way. It will be difficult to replicate the success of last year’s…

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(Column) Springville Happenings

Clara Ann Hughes was crowned Miss Springville 2024 at SHS on Jan. 20. The SHS Beta Club worked…

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(Column) Pell City Bulletin

Hello everyone. Still “wacky” weather, cold, rainy, warm, sunny, which leads to lots of sicknesses going around. Hope…

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National Book Critics Circle announces finalists for publishing year 2023: Judy Blume, American Library Association to receive lifetime achievement awards

The National Book Critics Circle in late January announced 30 finalists in six categories — autobiography, biography, criticism,…

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(Column) New 2nd congressional district is race to watch in 2024

The most interesting race to watch this year in Alabama will be for the newly drawn second congressional…

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Booked for the month: Noir, fantasy and historical retellings fill the air with new fiction from Gordon Greisman and Christy Healy, and audio retakes of Jules Verne and Donald Miller

From 20,000 feet above to 20,000 leagues below — and a couple more with feet firmly on planet…

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(Column) Springville Happenings

The Big Canoe Creek Nature Preserve, 1700 Murphrees Valley Road, Springville, opens to the public on Saturday, Feb.…

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(Column) Pell City Bulletin

Hello everyone. Well it is that time of year when the weather can’t make up its mind. It’s…

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(Column) 2024 is an election year!

This is a presidential election year. Our GOP Presidential Primary is our election in the Heart of Dixie.…

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(Column) Charlie Kirk’s dastardly attack on Nobel Prize winner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Charlie Kirk, speaking before students and teachers at AmericaFest, a political convention organized by Turning Point, insisted, “MLK…