Autaugaville News

Autauga County Board of Education members approved several personnel moves, including the acceptance of resignations submitted by three educators and two members of the system's support staff, during last week's final regular session of the year.

A federal grand jury handed down a four-count, drugs-and-weapons indictment Friday against an Autauga County man who reportedly was in possession of a small arsenal when federal agents and county lawmen conducted a successful drug raid at his home in July.

William Walter Ohoro, 46, of Autaugaville has been indicted by a federal grand jury on four counts of violating federal drug and firearms laws, U.S. Attorney Leura G. Canary announced today.

Investigators with the Autauga County Sheriff's Office are looking into reports -- one by a guest at a local motel, the other an employee of the motel -- that a group of Hispanic males forced their way into separate motel rooms and robbed them.

My first effort at writing an opinion column for our paper fell flat, and Alicia Harper surreptitiously added a note at the end of it, asking readers to suggest an idea for my future writings.

Mini-bombers and fighter planes will be in the sky for Autaugaville's air show happening today and tomorrow at Club's Landing Strip on County Road 21 South.

From left, Barbara Thomas, Martha Davis, Vale rie Packer, Jackie Gaut and Dana Bennett prepare Thanksgiving Day meals that were furnished free to sever al hundred local residents last Thursday.

Fountain City Flyers member Chris Tomberline makes an adjustment to his 40-percent scale aircraft, which boasts a 150cc engine that pulls 14 horsepower, during a past fly-in. Tomberline, a Mitylene resident, is expected to partici pate in this weekend's Ed Sims Memorial Scale-War Bird Open Fly-In. -- Contributed, Progress Although the skies over ...

Agribusiness owners and other residents of Autauga County's vast rural areas mingled last Thursday with lawyers, business owners and other "city folks" during the annual Farm-City Week awards banquet.

Autauga County School System officials announced this week that the first round of the Alabama Department of Education's school-based H1N1 vaccination clinics has been set for Thursday, Dec.

Payson Marsh was among about 500 third-graders who spent Tuesday morning learning about life on the farm.

It's another day on the field for 20-year old Russell Churchwell, another day to feel free and soar.

Tropical Storm Ida may not have done much damage when it hit the Gulf Coast this week, but its wind and rain compounded the misery for Southern farmers already coping with a wet, difficult harvest season.

Rain and wind from Tropical Storm Ida slowed harvest operations for farmers across Alabama and added to what has been a mostly wet and miserable harvest season.

County Clerk Sally Hand and Administrator-Treasurer Steve Golsan take notes Tuesday as a local construction official explains the scope of the problems discovered at the county's agriculture office complex.

About two dozen fire trucks and other emergency vehi cles led Doug Jackson's funeral procession as it traveled down Main Street to Old Kingston Methodist Church Cemetery.

Years ago, a young girl found herself in prayer as she overheard her father arguing with her mother.

Alabama's secondary severe weather season is just around the corner, and officials are predicting more active conditions due to what's happening halfway around the globe.

When my father was a young boy, like many, he grew restless on the farm and sought adventure.

A 68-year-old Autauga Coun ty man was airlifted to a Mont gomery hospital last week after he spent almost 24 hours trapped inside his wrecked pick up, which left a county road and overturned in a kudzu-filled ra vine just a few miles from his home.