"While the political part of the camp was fun and interesting, it was the friends and connections I made along the way that are the most meaningful to me"
For more than 10 years, Wallace Community College practical nursing students from both the Sparks campus in Eufaula and the Wallace campus in Dothan have volunteered with the Camp Seale Harris Dothan Day camp. The day camp is a medically supervised, fun camp experience and family connection …
What was once a golf course has been transformed into something new at Lakepoint State Park.
A few hours after officially being approved as Eufaula’s new head football coach Tuesday night, Jerrel Jernigan stepped away from his 33rd birthday celebration to share his thoughts of leading his alma mater.
This week contains a couple of days that are very special to me. Both days are holidays that I celebrate, but not only for the same reasons that others may.
Wallace Community College-Dothan’s (WCCD) Sparks Campus site coordinator Andrea Evans recently received the most outstanding Staff Person of the Year Award at the 2022 Alabama Adult Education Awards Luncheon held at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel and Spa Convention Center.
Last weekend, people came from across the Southeast to attend the annual Southern Christian Writers’ Conference in Birmingham. As you know from college football, the Southeast can now stretch from Texas through the Carolinas.
Wallace Community College-Dothan’s (WCCD) Sparks Campus site coordinator Andrea Evans recently received the most outstanding Staff Person of the Year Award at the 2022 Alabama Adult Education Awards Luncheon held at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel and Spa Convention Center.
Last weekend, people came from across the Southeast to attend the annual Southern Christian Writers’ Conference in Birmingham. As you know from college football, the Southeast can now stretch from Texas through the Carolinas.
Truth is definitely stranger than fiction. Novelists know that a story and its characters have to be believable.
Former President Donald Trump has endorsed Katie Britt in the Republican primary for an Alabama U.S. Senate seat. Trump on Friday called Britt “a fearless America First Warrior" and said she has his “complete and total endorsement.” The former president had originally backed U.S. Rep. Mo Br…
The Eufaula High School class of 2022 had 56 students that were offered scholarships totaling $3,172,334 to 30 different colleges/branches of federal armed services.
Wallace Community College in Dothan was recently selected to receive funding from the U.S. Department of Education in the amount of $1,769,530 for the WCCD Upward Bound program, which provides fundamental support to participants in their preparation for college entrance.
I clutched my pony’s lead rope and watched the farrier cradle her cracked, overgrown hoof in his callused hand. The scraping sound of the rasp lulled me into a kind of dreamy spell, and it occurred to me that it’s hard to find skilled craftsmen these days.
Mike Durant, the “Black Hawk Down” pilot who finished third in Alabama’s Republican Senate primary, said he will not make an endorsement in the upcoming runoff. Durant said he will not endorse either of the candidates advancing to the June 21 runoff _ Katie Britt and U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks. He…
Breakfast and lunch meals will be available this summer at Eufaula City Schools through the Break for a Plate Alabama program, and meals are free to everyone 18 years old and younger.
The children’s book, “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie,” came to mind recently. After the mouse received a cookie, one thing led to another…
U.S. Senate candidate Katie Britt, who last month sharply criticized one opponent for not debating in the race, now indicated she won't debate runoff opponent Rep. Mo Brooks. Her campaign says the congressman is seeking “a circus” instead of a debate, while the Brooks camp accused Britt of “…
I’m sitting in my study looking out at the stormy Spring morning, thinking about how quiet it is so early in the day.
We have a new bicycle at our house. Well, actually, it’s not new, but it’s new to us, as they say.
WASHINGTON — Fort Benning would become Fort Moore. Fort Bragg would become Fort Liberty. Fort Gordon would be Fort Eisenhower. And, for the first time, Army bases would be named after Black soldiers and women. An independent commission on Tuesday recommended new names for nine Army posts tha…
On Monday, I googled “Steven Leath.”
Eufaula High School seniors attended their Senior Luncheon last week at Lakepoint Resort State Park and had a special guest speaker via Zoom, Les Snead. Snead graduated from Eufaula High in 1989 and is now the general manager of the Los Angeles Rams.
Here’s a look at the unofficial results of who won what around Barbour County, the region and the state.
The Music in the Park event, hosted by ICRadio, happened this past weekend, in Geraldine, Alabama, on Sand Mountain. I always enjoy returning to that part of our great state since that area is where I grew up.