Tallapoosa News

Hands of Creation, Inc. has kicked off its annual Back to School Drive to help families get their children off to a good start for the 2009-10 school year.

The Haralson County Historical Societya s final plans are beginning to take shape for the exhibit that will be setting up in Buchanan in a mere seven months.

City of Tallapoosa Better Hometown Manager/Leisure Coordinator Kate Gardner has big plans for the citya s 150th anniversary that will be celebrated in the Fall of 2010, but shea s looking for volunteers to join the many committees that have been formed to make the weekend-long celebration a success.

He's been on a drive. No, wait, a writing retreat. No, he's in Atlanta. Oh, I mean, on the Appalachian Trail.

The Haralson County Board of Education passed a spending resolution for July in the recent board meeting held Monday night.

Editora TMs Note: This the fifth in a series of Dadeville resident Harold Banksa TM travel journal made during his 258-mile descent of the Tallapoosa River.

The Coosa Valley Regional Development Center board voted Thursday to undo a change to how representatives are picked to the board, reverting to the original bylaws that let the largest cities pick their own representaives.

Lots of people have unpleasant memories of hitting deer with their cars, but wild hogs can cause some serious fender damage, too.

'In the late 1940s and early 1950s, my dad used to fix porchetta. My brother and I have always tried to duplicate the crackling skin that made my dad's porchetta so good.

Two arrested in a high-speed chase Monday face numerous traffic and criminal charges, according to law enforcement officials.

Matthew Perry Williams will headline concert at museum. The East Alabama History Museum will be hosting a concert on March 14, at 7 p.m., in the old Heflin Rail Depot Station.

Melody Ellen Fennell of Rockmart and Kip Zachary Wright of Cedartown were married at 5 p.m., Saturday, Dec.

The World Children's Center is proud of its partnership with North Georgia Honda Dealers Association .

A strong low-pressure system moving across the Southeast has brought snow to Houston and New Orleans, tornadoes in Alabama and Georgia and reports of severe weather across WJXT's viewing area.