It plays out all over the country: the demand to maintain the standard of living of a highly industrialized and spoiled society as opposed to the present destruction of the environment and the prediction of far more devastation as we heat up the Earth, the only home we have. More...

Unique. And beautiful. Two young women giving their mother a whole day’s celebration on her birthday in a way that paid tribute to her abiding concern for the “least of these.” After a leisurely brunch at the home of one daughter, the three went to the Urban Ministries in Birmingham where they helped serve lunch to the homeless. More...

Sweet Pea [our lost dog] has been found thanks to my ad in your paper. I want to thank you for running the ad and thank everyone who called. Your ad worked. Thank you again. Nick Britt and Laura Burk Locust Fork/Smokerise area More...

Blount County had two teams make the top 10 in the preseason high school football poll released last week by the Alabama Sports Writers Association (ASWA) and another school just missed the top 10. More...

George Washington was president of the United States; Tennessee was admitted to the Union as the 16th state; a young upstart named Napoleon Bonaparte was positioning himself as the Emperor of France; and the birth of Joel Blackburn was being recorded in a family Bible now archived in the Blount County Memorial Museum. More...

Background Scripture: Numbers 14:1-25. Devotional Reading: Psalms 78:5-17. More...

If there appears to be a disagreement among family members about information to appear in an obituary, The Blount Countian reserves the right to decline to publish any of it. More...

BLOUNT COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION will meet 3:30 p.m. Aug. 11 in the boardroom, 204 2nd Ave. E., Oneonta. More...