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Oneonta names municipal complex for Danny Hicks
Oneonta honored its former mayor by naming its newest city structure the Danny B. Hicks Municipal Complex. Hicks, a councilor for four years and mayor for 16, opted not to seek reelection in 2008. At times pausing, evidently from emotion, current Mayor Darryl Ray spoke glowingly of Hicks's service to the city. "How proud I am to have Mayor Hicks here," he began. More...
Birmingham Water Works announces new water source on Black Warrior River
Locust Fork reservoir apparently ruled out
by Ron Gholson

The Birmingham Water Works Board unanimously approved last Thursday a $329 million plan that would provide adequate water to serve its customers in the Birmingham metro area until 2075. The water works will build a new pump station on the Black Warrior River, located about three miles downstream from the Bankhead Lock and Dam in Tuscaloosa County. More...

Snead examines maintenance, economic, other town matters
by Jim Kilgore

In addition to establishing a new baseball committee for the town's park and recreation department, as reported in last week's edition of The Blount Countian, the Snead Town Council considered several points related to town maintenance and economic matters. More...

 News
• Editorial
Fun, frustrating
Getting out (that's what we call it) a country weekly newspaper is fun, frustrating, satisfying, challenging - though not necessarily in that order. Dire predictions about daily newspapers were being made even before the meltdown of the country's economy. More...
• Notice
• Chamber guests to hear about Big Brothers/Big Sisters
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 Columns
• article has image Alabama Scene
Testimony by intimidation
Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to delay sentencing former twoyear college chancellor Roy Johnson because they believe he has more information that could yield new indictments stemming from the investigation into corruption in the two-year college system. More...
• article has image Clearly Speaking
• From the Archives
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 Letters
• More wet and dry
This past week Gov. Riley stated that without help more than 4700 teachers and other public employees could lose their jobs. Unemployment is at an all time high; people are losing their homes, their insurance, and are cutting back on a number of things to get through these times. More...
• 'No alcohol, no field trip'
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 Sports
• article has image Hayden and Cleveland head to regionals
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL
Two Blount County teams that had not been part of the regional playoffs in quite a while qualified for this week's regional tournaments with impressive home wins in last week's subregion games. More...
• SPORTSBRIEFS
• County tournament next week
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 People
• article has image Hometown adventures enjoyed by GLC seniors
Golden Living Center of Oneonta has a lot in store for its seniors in 2009. One of the most exciting for the center's golden agers is a series of planned "hometown adventures" when staff take them, a few at a time, on trips to visit their hometowns. More...
• article has image Brannan - Vick
• article has image Five Generations
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 Faith
• article has image THE BIBLE SPEAKS
God calling!
Background Scripture: Isaiah 6. Devotional Reading: Revelation 4. I have previously paid tribute to the pastor of my youth, the Rev. Mark J. Steierwald, who demonstrated that one can be a serious disciple of Jesus Christ and still have fun. I had previously assumed that being a Christian meant being grimly serious. More...
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• article has image REHAB 2000
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 Obituaries
• OBITUARIES
GLENDA BULLARD CLABURN, 66, of Fultondale, died Feb. 15, 2009, in Blount County. A former Blount resident, she was a retired computer programmer and a member of Nectar Baptist Church. She was the daughter of Alma Wynn Bullard and the late Carter Bullard and the widow of Glenn Claburn. More...
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 News Briefs
• NEWBRIEFS
NEW OTELCO BROADBAND SERVICES Otelco is now offering four new services through its high speed internet facilities to most of the broadband subscribers in its Alabama service area. ESPN360. More...
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