April is Financial Literacy Month and IRS Criminal Investigation, Atlanta Field Office is bringing awareness to impostor scams, which according to the Federal Trade Commission was number one in the top fraud category in 2023. “With the end of the 2024 tax season, we want to make taxpayers aware that scammers posing as IRS personnel are increasing their phone calls to potential victims stati...read more

With almost half of your home energy costs consumed by your heating and cooling system, it's important to know about a new rebate program being offered by the Tennessee Valley Authority. To help make sure your HVAC system is operating as efficiently as possible, TVA is offering a $50 rebate to homeowners who have an annual HVAC tune-up for their existing heat pump or central air conditioning syst...read more

A shower. A haircut. A healthy meal. Hygiene products. These are everyday basics for most Northwest Alabama residents, but for the area's growing homeless population, they're from everyday occurrences. Hope Fest, a special event set for Saturday, April 20, is a benefit concert that will also provide each of those 'basics' to any homeless guests at the event. Additionally, there will be resourc...read more

  Dorothy from ‘The Wizard of Oz’ said it more than 85 years ago—“There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home. And that timeless saying also applied to the runoff for the Republican nomination for Franklin County Commission District Two, where Greg Hovater learned ‘there’s no place like your home ...read more

The Russellville City Council approved the hiring of Camie Chard as Accounts Payable Clerk at the council's April 15th meeting. The Russellville Civil Service Board conducted candidate interviews last week. At Monday's meeting, Chard was the recommendation of City Clerk Belinda Miller. Chard was approved by 4-1 vote, with councilman Dexter Hamilton voting against the motion. In other agenda ite...read more