Boaz News

The annual sales tax holiday is slated to begin Aug. 1-3, giving a much-needed boost to the areas's economy and a break to families' already-stretched household budgets.

Boaz is growing. According to a U.S. Census Bureau estimate issued on July 1, the Boaz population has increased from 7,411 in 2000 to 8,349 in 2008, a 12.7 percent increase.

Published: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, June 29, 2009 at 8:49 p.m. Etowah County Circuit Judge David Kimberley has upheld an Oct.

Boaz City School Board members have dreams of building a multi-purpose gymnasium facility.

Boaz City Schools Superintendent Leland Dishman received a positive evaluation from board members Monday night, garnering a merit payment.

The use of a stolen credit card to pay for a room at the Microtel Inn in Albertville led to the arrest of a man and woman.

A review of one of seven challenged ballots was all it took for Etowah Circuit Judge David A. Kimberley to decide that Mountainboro's 2007 referendum calling for its annexation by Boaz won by a single vote.

Among items approved at the Boaz Board of Education meeting Monday was the capital improvement plan, which includes a multipurpose facility.

I have to give it to Boaz Mayor Tim Walker. He, along with city and area church leaders, put on quite a show over the weekend.

Scott Edward McDaniel, 37, of Fort Payne, and formerly of Boaz, died Thursday, June 25, 2009, at Trinity Hospital in Birmingham.

The Fourth of July is a week away, but already the area is in full swing for the commemoration of the 233rd anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence that set up the founding of the United States of America.

A Marshall County man who drowned late Thursday afternoon near Lake Guntersville State Park has been identified as Marty W. Patterson, 46, of Boaz, Coroner Marlon Killion said this morning.

Boaz Police Chief Terry Davis is thankful he has a job, but it may not be for long.

A Boaz man is behind bars after being arrested in Etowah County. Etowah County deputies arrested 21-year-old Eric Chandler of Boaz on theft of property charges.

Terry Davis will be serving as chief of police but it's anybody's guess as to how long after action by the Boaz City Council at its regular meeting Monday.

Boaz city officials have celebrated Independence Day for years by sponsoring a free concert.

DeKalb County deputies teamed up with Boaz city police last week to make a second arrest in a child porn investigation.

Four adults and one 15-year-old juvenile have been arrested on third-degree criminal mischief charges after pulling what they termed 'a prank.' Boaz Police Chief Terry Davis said Friday that David Micheal Hunter, of Boaz, Stephen Ray Wells, of Crossville, Caleb Landers Coker, of Union Grove, and Christopher Thomas McDaniel, of Natchez, Miss., along ...

DeKalb County investigators Friday charged a Crossville man with possession of child pornography.

'One picture was all that I could take - it was a lot of disgusting stuff,' said Boaz Police Chief Terry Davis after viewing one of more than 70 DVDs containing thousands of pornographic images.