Attalla News

Published: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 9:31 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 9:31 p.m. The Attalla Board of Education announced the 2009-2010 Teachers of the Year at Thursday's meeting.

Published: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 10:24 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 10:42 p.m. Open enrollment for the 2010 Medicare Checkup begins this week and runs though Dec.

Published: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 9:59 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 10:07 p.m. A second member of the Etowah County Commission has committed funds to the Black Creek Parkway project.

Motorists traveling Interstate-59 south of DeKalb County may soon be impacted by ongoing highway construction projects in the area.

Published: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 9:59 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 10:07 p.m. Veolia Environmental Services, which serves the unincorporated areas of Etowah County, will have its quarterly cleanup day from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday.

Published: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 10:40 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 11:14 p.m. Police are asking for assistance in locating an Attalla teenager missing since Sunday.

Published: Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 7:32 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 7:32 p.m. Two different types of opera - classical opera and Grand Ole Opry music - will be featured in a unique fundraiser Saturday evening at the Hardin Center for Cultural Arts.

A major break in a 14-year old cold case from Coosa County. Three men are in the county jail charged with murder and attempted murder in the so-called "Lay Dam Road" incident.

Published: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 1:31 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 1:34 p.m. It has been 14 years since three Etowah County men were tied up, robbed and set on fire at a hunting lodge in Coosa County.

Published: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 6:36 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 6:37 p.m. More schools in Etowah County will be receiving security cameras under a grant approved Tuesday by the Etowah County Commission.

Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 8:53 p.m. Recognizing what our nation's armed forces mean to us takes many forms.

Published: Friday, October 30, 2009 at 10:02 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 30, 2009 at 10:25 p.m. Students at Etowah Middle School were rewarded for their good conduct Friday at the Seeing Our Actions Rewarded program in the school's gym.

If you're going to be taking a trip to Gadsden or Birmingham in the next two years, you may want to consider an alternative to Interstate 59.

William Harden is used to people driving slowly past his house and staring into his front yard.

The DeKalb County Commission is expected to discuss construction work along Interstate 59 when it meets today in regular session.

Published: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 9:31 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 9:34 p.m. Local Services * Dwight Baptist Church - 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Oct.

Marshall County presiding District Judge Tim Riley sentenced an Attalla man to 88 years in prison on Thursday for raping and sodomizing a 15-year-old Georgia Mountain girl at an Albertville trailer park in 2005.

Steven Richard Surdick, 39, of Gadsden, has been arrested for failing to register as a sex offender, according to Sheriff Todd Entrekin.

John H. Hudson, 76, of Gadsden, and formerly of Rainsville, died Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, at DeKalb Regional Medical Center.

Published: Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 10:56 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 10:59 p.m. The cold and wet weather Saturday didn't stop a good turnout for Attalla's Annual Heritage Day Celebration.