Mountainboro News

Some property owners in Marshall County town aren't happy with their town being annexed into a neighboring city.

Boaz is growing. According to a U.S. Census Bureau estimate issued on July 1, the Boaz population has increased from 7,411 in 2000 to 8,349 in 2008, a 12.7 percent increase.

Published: Friday, July 3, 2009 at 9:52 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, July 3, 2009 at 9:52 a.m. The Fourth of July is a celebration each year of the things - too numerous to list - that make our nation great.

Published: Friday, July 3, 2009 at 6:02 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, July 3, 2009 at 6:53 p.m. While a court ruling this week paved the way for Mountainboro to become part of Boaz, some residents are asking legislators to deannex their property to Etowah County.

For more than two years, the debate has raged over plans to annex the town of Mountainboro into the city of Boaz.

In October of 2007 voters in the Etowah County town of Mountainboro went to the polls.

Published: Monday, June 29, 2009 at 8:48 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, June 29, 2009 at 8:49 p.m. Etowah County Circuit Judge David Kimberley has upheld an Oct.

After nearly two years of waiting, the dispute about annexing Mountainboro into Boaz could be coming to an end.

Parts of Marshall and Etowah counties received damage Thursday when a sudden summer thunderstorm raced through the area.

Sardis and Mountainboro firefighters remove part of a tree from Alabama Highway 205 near U.S. Highway 431 after several trees and power lines were downed by a storm as it moved through the Sardis, Ala.

Published: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 8:25 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 8:25 p.m. At its regular monthly meeting Tuesday, the Mountainboro Town Council passed a resolution to allow the town to hold an auction at a date to be announced to sell its police cars, some furniture and other odds and ends.

April 30, 2009, will not only be the last day of the month, but it will also be the last day of a 34-year career for a local fire chief.

Two juveniles face arson and other charges after they admitted setting a weekend fire that destroyed fifteen antique vehicles.

Two juveniles will be charged in connection to the burning of a storage building in Mountainboro, which housed 15 antique cars, a truck and motorcycle, Sheriff Todd Entrekin said Monday.

23 and March 6. * A Troy-Bilt tiller worth $1,00 and a Craftsman tiller worth $500 were taken from a residence in the 300 block of Alverson Road between Feb.

The downtown mall was the only subject Monday at a work session of the Boaz City Council.

Sardis City and Mountainboro volunteer firefighters combined their efforts Monday afternoon to extinguish a stubborn wind-driven grass fire near the Golden Rule restaurant on U.S. 431 before it caused serious ...

Published: Monday, February 9, 2009 at 8:17 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, February 9, 2009 at 8:18 p.m. By Lisa Rogers Times Staff Writer Two men arrested in January for trafficking in drugs are illegal ...

The Town of Mountainboro has hired a person to assist town clerk Angela Pullen in straightening out the books.

The Alabama Supreme Court has overturned a local court's ruling on Mountainboro's 2007 election to be annexed by Boaz.