Russellville News

Houston Johnson, Hannah Forester, Dyllan Boyd, Gus Monday, Braylon Johnson and Kristy Wood play with Allie at their daycare center in Cloverdale.

As the countdown to the 2009 County Fair continues, the first item on tap for Adult Open Class competition is the Homemakers' Style Show pre-judging, which is slated for Monday, July 6th in the Courthouse Annex.

Town residents complaining of raccoons in their gardens and yards will have to figure out how to get rid of the pests themselves.

Older campers learned the value of cooperation during a rope game at Heritage Lake this week.

The eighth annual Blast from the Past Festival opens at the Bainbridge Community Center next Saturday at 9 a.m. The two-day festival is the main fundraiser for Friends of the Park in Roachdale, Bainbridge and Russellville and helps support the Summer Fun in the Sun program in local parks.

The Russellville Community Center is having a fundraiser this Saturday From 6 to 8 p.m. for the family of Chastity and Norman Eugene Goss.

Janie Briones was busy Sunday morning delivering the thousands of pounds of food collected by local postal workers Saturday during their annual food drive.

Screams for help mingled with moans as 14 North Putnam High School students and their bus driver waited after being trapped inside the vehicle following a mock wreck, part of a disaster-training event presented by the school corportion every year.

The town board unanimously voted to hire Jim Ensley as the town's attorney during its monthly meeting Wednesday.

Monday night's joint meeting between the Putnam County council and commissioners drew a crowd to the county annex as they discussed the possibility of contracting out the county's reassessment.

Friends of the Park is looking for volunteers and donations to help their free Summer Fun in the Sun programs and other events at community parks in Roachdale, Bainbridge and Russellville.

Anyone wanting to host a private party at the community center will soon have to sign a contract to do so.

A jury convicted a Russellville man on three methamphetamine-related felony charges Thursday in Putnam County Circuit Court.

A Russellville man was sentenced Thursday in Putnam County Circuit Court to six months in jail for domestic battery.

The town has become the proud owner of its water tower. The last payment was sent in November, said Sally McAfee, clerk-treasurer. It took the town nearly 30 years to pay off the little more than $54,000 water ...

Putnam County Planner Kim Hyten received a "Gold Star" from county commissioners Gene Beck and Jim Baird at Monday nights' meeting.

Families are invited to stroll under the canopies on Harrison Street from the fire stations to Ron's Gas Station.