NEWS

Billy M. Bolton, Chairman of the Board of Community Spirit Bank welcomes Marilyn Mayfield to the Community Spirit Bank team. On behalf of the Community Spirit Bank Board of Directors and our holding ...read more

The Franklin County Board of Education approved 15 personnel moves at its January 14th meeting. Among the personnel actions approved by the board were: —Resignation: Victoria Jones, special e...read more

  With temperatures dipping into single digits Wednesday across much of the Tennessee Valley, the Tennessee Valley Authority is asking customers to reduce their power consumption, specifically b...read more

“The Golden Age begins now...During every single day of the Trump administration, I will simply put America first.” Those were the first words from President Donald Trump as he spoke at h...read more

Long before he was hired as Russellville Electric Board’s new general manager, Derrick Moore knew a lot about his prospective employer. Prior to his interview, Moore did his research. Not onl...read more

The arrival of 2025 is year one for Alabama's Creating Hope and Opportunity for Our Students' (CHOOSE) Act, which was signed into law by Gov. Kay Ivey on March 7, 2024. The CHOOSE Act website, www.ch...read more

The Russellville City Council approved a $415,381.60 bid for a large-scale micro-surfacing paving project, part of a more than $4 million infrastructure improvement package, the largest paving proje...read more

When you work at the same place for more than a quarter century, it becomes a second home, with those you work with forming a second family. When Regina Lawler goes to work on Friday, January 17th, i...read more

Russellville City Councilman Darren Woodruff has announced his candidacy for a second term representing District Two. Woodruff was elected in 2020 after running a campaign based on a commitment to im...read more

The Russellville City Board of Education approved 19 personnel moves at a short meeting held December 17th.The board also approved an out-of-state trip request for Russellville High School students to...read more

Effective Saturday, December 21, 2024, the Congressional authorization for replacement of stolen Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits expired. The replacement of these b...read more

Just over one year ago, Caleb Rea received some good news when his orthopedic surgeon at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital told Rea he was cleared to start lifting weights. That might not sound like a b...read more

If you were to describe Franklin County resident Donald King using only one word, you couldn't go wrong with persistent. King, who's lived on Highway 73 since 1980, has been a regular at Franklin Cou...read more

The Franklin County Commission unanimously approved a two-year contract to make Russellville attorney Evan Hargett the new county attorney. Since former county attorney Roger Bedford, Jr., died in Oc...read more

After Amendment One passed with more than 70% of Alabama voters supporting it, Franklin County Schools Superintendent of Education Greg Hamilton promised transparency as the system considers what to d...read more