Veteran service offices, support and suicide rates were the main topics for Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs state commissioner Kent Davis as he spoke at the Alexander City American Legion Post 339 Thursday.
Although the organization is not located in Lake Martin Area United Way’s coverage area of Tallapoosa and Coosa counties, The Learning Tree of Tallasee’s homes in Tallapoosa County benefit financially from the group.
Nominations are now being accepted for the spring 2020 Living History Cemetery Tour and Art Show presented by Alexander City Theatre II and Russell Medical Foundation.
At the far northern end of Lake Martin near Jacksons Gap sits the Easterseals Camp ASCCA (Alabama’s Special Camp for Children and Adults). A year-round camp designed for people with disabilities and health impairments, Camp ASCCA offers exciting programs and activities for those who attend a…
A motorcycle and vehicle cruise to benefit a late Alexander City resident’s parents will be held Saturday at the Charles E. Bailey Sportplex.
Alexander City Schools superintendent Dr. Keith Lankford will ask for the formation of a committee to ensure stakeholders have the correct information on how the funds from a 1-cent sales tax are used, starting with planning construction.
Gov. Kay Ivey announced Thursday she has lung cancer and will soon begin a series of radiation treatments.
Although teenage vaping is a national issue, it is not that prevalent in schools in Tallapoosa County, officials said. Dadeville High School and Benjamin Russell both had one incident this year and Alexander City Middle School has had only one incident in two years.
A walk across the lawn reveals crackling brown grass is in desperate need of rain.
Members of the Camp Hill Town Council are frustrated with the inability to deal with the town’s finances including the possibility of the water being cut off.
What looked like a wedding outside Dadeville’s Mitchell House on Sunday with seats neatly placed in front of the house and a tent space behind the residence was actually ribbon cutting and open house for the community.
Shena Louise Smith of Alexander City was indicted by a Tallapoosa County grand jury last month on charges for assault with bodily fluids.
A Randolph County grand jury has indicted David Burkhalter, 31, of Ashland in the enticement and rape of a student.
Subway in Dadeville is inspected Tuesday morning after a car drove through the side of the business. Only minor injuries were reported. The Dadeville fire and police departments, Tallapoosa EMS and Tallapoosa EMA responded. The county engineering department, water department and Alabama Powe…
Ronnie “Flip” Russell currently sits in the Tallapoosa County Jail awaiting transfer to the Alabama Department of Corrections for a life sentence after being found guilty of trafficking opium this summer, but it hasn’t stopped his fight.
Two defendants accused of killing a duck from the Central Alabama Community College pond were granted youthful offender status Monday.
Boys & Girls Club of the Lake Martin Area executive director Melissa Reynolds, left, and Tallapoosa County Commissioner T.C. Coley pose for a photograph Monday. The county commission declared the van surplus and donated it to the Boys & Girls Club's teen program. Coley used some of h…
Santana Wood was named managing editor for TPI’s newspapers Monday.
Homemade cheeseballs made by the women of the First United Methodist Church of Alexander City for the holiday season has been a tradition for many years.
Alex City council meeting set Monday
Tallapoosa County School System bus driver starting base pay is lower than the starting salaries of other drivers in Clay, Elmore, Coosa and Lee counties’ school systems and Alexander City Schools. It is something county school superintendent Joe Windle said the system is addressing.
An accident refilling a propane bottle caused the evacuation of the William T. Thweatt Industrial Park in Dadeville Friday.
Alexander City natives Chad and Kyle Wilson have been writing and playing country music together for 16 years and the awards are starting to stack up.
Children’s Harbor turns 30 this year and continues its mission of partnering with other organizations to help children with illnesses relax for free.
The search has been canceled for 17-year-old who went missing Wednesday evening as Emalee Stringfellow has been found as of Thursday night, according to Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.
Jacksons Gap Mayor Jeff Walker was at a loss for words at Tuesday’s council meeting after hearing of the resignation of the town’s police chief.
The Alexander City Police Department arrested Kelvin Bridges for weekend assault that left a woman with head trauma.
Oh the stories a watch could tell.
An Eclectic man is being held in the Elmore County Jail on $150,000 cash bond after being charged with sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12.
The Tallapoosa County Coaches Association requested an athletic supplement increase of $135,000 at the Tallapoosa County Board of Education meeting Monday.
The school system plans to be in the black with the largest budget in history as the Tallapoosa County Board of Education approved its 2019-20 fiscal year budget Monday.
An excavator brought down parts of the old Alabama Food Group building on Franklin Street in an effort to clean up Alexander City.
At the suggestion of Tallapoosa County EMA director Jason Moran, the Tallapoosa County Commission approved a motion to allow Moran to apply for FEMA grants at Monday’s meeting.
It’s been less than a week since moving to America, but Father Thomas Reddy Gopu has already performed mass at St. John the Apostle Catholic Church last weekend.
Ideas can come from anything, including hugs. The idea of dedicating Dadeville High School marching band’s shows to late classmate and drumline member Owen Thomas came from color guard captain Anhiyzjah Thomas hugging Owen’s mother, Beth Ann Blackburn, at his funeral.
Lake Martin is not the only place that is experiencing issues with erosion, property damage and wake boats. It is a problem of national proportions.
Labor Day fatal accident still being investigated
Auditions for “A Christmas Carol” begin next week. Alexander City Theatre II will stage the play in early December with a cast of 23 to 30 local townspeople including parts for 11 men and several children of all ages.
Like fireflies trailed by children on a summer evening, large wakes attract other recreation. Going airborne is a thrill for tube riders and personal watercraft (PWC) drivers. Although it’s also against the law for PWCs to jump another boat’s wake, said Capt. Gary Buchanan, Central and South…
Timber, cotton, corn and even soybeans are seen in farming operations across the area but a farming operation in Reeltown is bringing what seems like an unlikely crop to the area — kiwi.
While large wakes may accelerate its progress, erosion is a natural process, according to Lake Watch Lake Martin president Eric Reutebuch. As a body of water seeks balance over time, it naturally carves away soil on points as the flow of water cuts across turns and bends, and that soil is de…
Boot camp is coming to Benjamin Russell, but this time it’s ACT preparation focused.
The Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s Department is once again holding a women’s self-defense class.
New Site Mayor Phil Blasingame has been talking about a healthcare clinic in New Site since taking office nearly three years ago.
A new store will be coming to Market Place on U.S. Highway 280 in the spring.
Alexander City Parks and Recreation Department director Sonny Wilson told the Alexander City City Council Tallapoosa County commissioner Steve Robinson is giving money to the city to help create activities.
In recent months, the cumulative voice of nature enthusiasts, property owners and boaters alike has grown from isolated grumbling to collective, serious concern about boating wakes on Lake Martin. Conservationists are alarmed over the rate at which boat wakes are eroding the shoreline; prope…
Fans of the lake will have another reason to visit when The Annex on Lake Martin opens in October.
