Loachapoka News

Construction projects are put on hold. Field trips have been canceled. Teacher contract days have been trimmed.

Country music is full of rags-to-riches stories, but few took longer to unfold than Freddie Hart's -- his chart-topping hit "Easy Loving" arrived nearly 20 years into his recording career.Hart was born Fred Segrest on December 21, 1926, in Loachapoka, Alabama.

Some East Alabama schools are looking to the public to help address the state's high school drop-out dilemma.

Nine of 12 Lee County Schools joined other schools in Alabama to make up the 86.48 percent of schools across the state that met 100 percent of their goals to achieve Adequate Yearly Progress in reports released Monday by the Alabama Department of Education.

A tractor-trailer was struck by a westbound train traveling from Auburn to Loachapoka at a crossing on Lee Road 61 Tuesday morning, ripping the trailer in two.

The Auburn City Council will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the city council chambers at 141 N. Ross St.