Select student learns leadership skills during annual Youth Leadership Conference
Coosa County’s Alli Odom attended the Alfa Youth Leadership Conference November 13-14 at the Alabama 4-H Center in Columbiana. The conference teaches students how to advocate for agriculture, identify their potential and step into leadership roles. The event is for ninth and tenth graders. Sponsors are Alabama Farmers Federation, Coosa County Farmers Federation, Alabama Ag Credit, and Alabama Farm Credit.…
Read MoreRain brings update to fire restrictions
Special to the News With rain again bringing relief for many of Alabama’s wildland firefighters, the Alabama Forestry Commission is easing fire restrictions across much of the state. Effective at 8 a.m. Wednesday, November 22, all burn restrictions will be lifted in 33 counties in the Southern half of the state. In the Northern…
Read MoreBarron Rae Bevels announces campaign for House representative
Entrepreneur, local farmer will be challenging incumbent Mike Rogers for Alabama’s 3rd Congressional District seat Special to the News Barron Rae Bevels of Dadeville announced that she will be running for House representative in the 3rd District, which covers 11 counties. Bevels will be challenging longtime incumbent Mike Rogers for this seat. “I am…
Read More30 years ago in CCN history
By Christa Jennings Senior Staff Writer Approximately 30 years ago, the November 25, 1993, edition of “The Coosa County News” featured signs of Thanksgiving, as well as local and other news. Relating to the holiday, that edition three decades ago recognized the winners of the newspaper’s Young Peoples Thanksgiving Art contest, Jonathan J.…
Read MoreALEA dishes out safety tips for Thanksgiving 2023
Special to the News Thanksgiving marks one of the busiest weeks of the year on Alabama roadways. This year, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) urges everyone to prepare to share the road with millions of other motorists as AAA predicts more than 49 million Americans will be driving during the holiday week…
Read MoreThanksgiving memories, thankful for family
This week we have celebrated yet another Thanksgiving Day – something we should be very thankful for! Growing up we always spent Thanksgiving with my aunts, uncles and cousins in Jackson, Mississippi, with probably 25 plus or minus in attendance. Those are such great memories for me. All of my mother’s seven brothers are…
Read MoreThanksgiving
I presume that all y’all were taught the same as I was in elementary school about the Pilgrims and our first Thanksgiving celebration, held some 402 years ago now, at Plymouth Plantation, in what is now the state of Massachusetts. The Puritans were not the first colonists. The first English were not even the first…
Read MoreObituaries
Genevieve Calfee Genevieve “Jenny” Calfee, age 75, of Sylacauga, passed away on Friday, November 17, 2023. Mrs. Calfee was raised to be God-fearing with high morals. This made her a person of high integrity, honesty and kindness. She was cherished by her husband, brothers, sisters, children, and all who knew her. Friends of her…
Read MoreEquality VFD Community Bingo tomorrow
I haven’t gotten the floor done yet on this old house. Farm issues to deal with. The goat has a broken leg; took three others to auction to slim things down here. Then had dogs that got into the yard and attacked our animals. A prized Narraganset turkey was attacked and dragged down the…
Read MoreBe thankful all year
Happy Thanksgiving to everybody from Union Square. It’s a short week and a short column – more on my story next week. Our prayers and condolences go to our Union Square neighbors, Kim Abrams and Raymond, in the loss of her father, Mr. George Vernon, and former neighbor, Mrs. Jessie Leonard McGhee, in the…
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