Oneonta News

A man and a woman have been charged with capital murder after a 71-year-old man was found dead in his burning home, Blount County Sheriff Loyd Arrington said today.

A Sav-A-Lot employee stocks fresh produce. The company is targeting inner city areas.

"Oneonta, jewel of the Imperial beaches; Oneonta, sunshine and coastal breezes; "Oneonta, Southern California oasis; Oneonta, palm trees and smiling faces." No, this isn't a joke.

ONEONTA - An elderly man died in a Thanksgiving Day house fire in Blount County.

A Blount County Man dies in a late night house fire. Assistant Fire Marshal Scott Pilgreen says the blaze happened just before midnight last night at 11 Old Settlement Road, in Oneonta.

The Alabama Avengers adult semi-pro football team will conduct registration Dec.

When it came to bringing down the infamous 1920s gangster Al Capone, a former Oneontan did his part.

To most, anti-war protests on college campuses and communities are thought of as generally happening in the late 1960s and early '70s, or perhaps as recently as 2003, when the Iraq war began.

Step Back in Time features community news items from The Daily Star 25 and 50 years ago.

A ceremony is set this week for Veterans Day in Neahwa Park. It will be amid a construction scene for the new Memorial Walkway, but nevertheless historic, as it was 50 years ago this November that Neahwa Park became the new site of Veterans Day events in Oneonta.

The town of Oneonta will continue to be led by its incumbent supervisor, but two challengers for the town council are separated by 16 votes with slightly more than 100 absentee ballots to be counted following Tuesday's election.

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It was a busy year of events on the campus of Hartwick College in 1954. The community's leaders and citizens became more involved in the college's role in Oneonta's life.

Oneonta course offers relaxed round at a low cost COURSE INFO Address: 765 Morton Road, Oneonta Phone: 205-274-9136 Web site: none Par: 34-3670 Yardage: 4,245 to 4,830 yards USGA course rating: 70 Slope rating: 113 Greens: Bermuda Green fee: $10 weekdays, $20 weekends Date played: October 8, 2009 The closing hole at Whispering Pines is a par-3 ...

Head north on AL 75 to Oneonta this Saturday for the Blount County Covered Bridge Festival.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed Friday. The acquisition requires regulator approval, which Cellular South officials say should be completed in several months.

Birmingham-based Aliant Bank said Greg Hill has joined as senior vice president, human resources director.

Gov. Bob Riley has announced $423,000 in grants to expand or improve recreational opportunities in Alabama.

Three people have pleaded guilty in the death of a disabled Ashville man whose burned body was found on top of Chandler Mountain in Steele.

For more than a decade, coal mining had been considered a thing of the past in Blount County.