Russellville News

Artists will have a chance to draw or design a covered bridge for the first Covered Bridges of Putnam County Festival, set for October 9 through 18.

The United Way of Putnam County is looking for both volunteers and community projects for its Aug.

Main Street in Russellville will be alive with businesses again soon. There will be a new restaurant, grocery store and saloon opening at the beginning of August.

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.