Billingsley News

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.

Don Fletcher is a staff writer for the Progress weeklies. He can be reached at defletcher@gannett.com or at 334-365-6739. -- Progress 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.

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.

Autauga County Sheriff Herbie Johnson, faced with budgetary restraints and plagued with a shortage of manpower, hopes that the newest addition to the county's crime-fighting arsenal will help alleviate both problems.

PRATTVILLE -- Autauga County Sheriff's Office deputies will be able to spend more time on the road, thanks to new computers in patrol cars.

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.

Auburn University wants to make sure there's a good crop of students pursuing agriculture degrees in the future.

With the entire student body looking on from behind the ball field fence, Billingsley School Assistant Prin cipal Ann Glasscock lets out a little shriek at the prospect of kissing a pig.

The Alabama High School Athletic Association's 2010-2012 classifications were approved and released Wednesday morning.

Mississippi Hi Point hosted the Blazing Saddles Harescramble on Oct. 25 in Ellisville, Miss.

PLANTERSVILLE a ' Dallas County has changed gameday for Senior Night to Thursday, when Billingsley will come to Plantersville for the Hornetsa TM last regular-season game.

Alabama jumped Florida to become No. 1 in this week's Associated Press poll, but the Crimson Tide was a solid No.

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

A community walking trail is in the works for Billingsley High School, thanks to recently approved grants.

Linebacker Dont'a Hightower was an immediate standout from Alabama's 2008 signing class.

Jim Moore literally traveled cross country to be in Chilton County on Sunday for a family cemetery dedication.

While most Autauga County residents were fretting Wednes day over a daylong -- actually sev eral days long -- deluge that dumped several inches of rain on an already-waterlogged county, those in the county's mid-western sector had more important weath er concerns than the heavy rains.

PRATTVILLE -- Erin Little's blood runs cold when the severe weather sirens sound in Prattville.

Recently, my office hosted our sixth tele phone town hall. I talked to and fielded calls from people around the Sec ond District from my con gressional office in Mont gomery.

Autauga County Commis sioners have plans to bring re tail growth to the rural parts of the county, and the future rests on the lowly sewer pipe.