Saturday Dec 5 | Prattville Progress
Jewelry, cash reportedly taken in Pine Motel robbery
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.
Saturday Dec 5 | Prattville Progress
Don Fletcher: Newspaper's job is to record, not shape community history
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.
ACIA members, volunteers feed 400 local citizens
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.
Computers installed in half of ACSO patrol fleet
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.
High-tech drive: Autauga County Sheriff's Office uses grant to install computers in patrol cars
PRATTVILLE -- Autauga County Sheriff's Office deputies will be able to spend more time on the road, thanks to new computers in patrol cars.
Public school students offered voluntary vaccinations
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.
Program aims to boost interest in agricultural careers
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.
AHSAA reclassification released
The Alabama High School Athletic Association's 2010-2012 classifications were approved and released Wednesday morning.
Alabama drivers dominate in Mississippi
Mississippi Hi Point hosted the Blazing Saddles Harescramble on Oct. 25 in Ellisville, Miss.
Dallas County moves football game to Thursday
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 is No. 2 behind Florida in season's first BCS standings
Alabama jumped Florida to become No. 1 in this week's Associated Press poll, but the Crimson Tide was a solid No.
James Brown: Hunting wild hogs still an adventure
When my father was a young boy, like many, he grew restless on the farm and sought adventure.
Billingsley to get walking trail
A community walking trail is in the works for Billingsley High School, thanks to recently approved grants.
Breaking down the Tide's 2008 signing class: 'As good as advertised if not better'
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.
Heavy rains pound county's residents
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.
New storm sirens may ease tornado anxiety in Autauga County
PRATTVILLE -- Erin Little's blood runs cold when the severe weather sirens sound in Prattville.
Bobby Bright: Concerns expressed at telephone town hall
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.
New sewer expected to spur growth in northern Autauga
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.