Special to the News On Wednesday, April 1, the Central High School biology, environmental science and earth science students traveled to Flagg Mountain for an educational field trip with their teacher, Jacques Mitchell. Alabama foresters Brad Dunham and Braxton Lashley, both Central High School graduates, along with Flagg Mountain caretaker, Mary Thurman, taught the students how…

412 acres burned in Coosa wildfire Special to the News With worsening drought conditions across the state and low relative humidity, on Monday State Forester Rick Oates issued a statewide Fire Alert effective immediately. Over the past weekend, 50 wildfires burned more than 2,300 acres of forestland across the state. This includes a 500-acre wildfire…

  Special to the News By Maggie Gaddy   Service and community involvement took center stage as farmers, leaders and students came together for the Farm-City Banquet April 9 in Auburn, recognizing achievements and embracing this year’s theme, “Grow Alabama.” The theme was a callback to “Agriculture and Forestry Grow Alabama: An Economic Contribution Study” released last year…

By Christa Jennings Senior Staff Writer The Weogufka community’s Mule Day returns this year, and guests can enjoy the festivities next Saturday at the Weogufka Center. Mule Day will be held from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. on the grounds of the old Weogufka School. The day will be a family-friendly event featuring mules, music,…

Special to the News   Westwater Resources Inc., an energy technology and battery-grade natural graphite company, recently announced that the Coosa Graphite Deposit (“Coosa”) has been designated as a “covered project” under FAST-41 and added to the federal permitting dashboard. Designation as a FAST-41 covered project supports a more coordinated and transparent federal permitting process,…