The monthly Blount County-Oneonta Chamber of Commerce breakfast will be held at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23, at Twin Oaks. The featured speaker will be Tim James, candidate for the 2010 Republican gubernatorial nomination. The program sponsor is World Outreach Center, a valuable member of the chamber. More...

Since the mid-1980s and early 1990s when state and local governments started discovering word-processor and computer systems, the cost of the technology geeks to service and upgrade these systems has spread like the California wildfires with very little accountability. More...

Saturday, Sept. 12, brought back many memories both happy and sad filling the hearts of those in attendance. This day will long be remembered by all of those you honored. More...

Several big games are on tap for our local teams but none bigger than No. 2 Cherokee County visiting No. 6 Oneonta in a showdown for the supremacy of 4A Region 6. Blount County once again has three teams ranked in the top 10 by the Alabama Sports Writers Association (ASWA). More...

Community members listen as registered dietitians with St. Vincent’s Blount wellness services counsel them after they receive screening results during the health fair the hospital sponsored Saturday, Aug. 29. In addition, Britny Ballentine (right), a health promotions specialist, conducts one of the vision screenings offered that day. More...

Background Scripture: Ezra 9. Devotional Reading Psalms 32:1-5. Ezra, and the book that bears his name, are enigmas. He was a Jewish priest descended from Aaron and a scribe who, under royal Persian decree, led a caravan of Jewish exiles from exile. But we don’t know if it was in 457 BC or in 397 BC, before or after Nehemiah’s arrival in Jerusalem. More...