Childersburg News

Dusty Robinson won't be there to watch his children open their Christmas presents Friday morning - but he says they understand.

Years ago, churches had an area close to the altar known as the amen corner. Here church members sat who could be depended upon to uplift an "Amen" during inspiring moments of the sermon.

Couples who applied for marriage licenses in Shelby County from Dec. 1-7. -Wei Wu Chen, 41, of Alabaster and Xue Mei, 40 of Sterrett.

4 following a recent robbery at the Publix on Doug Baker Boulevard. Police arrested Colby Goins, 18, of Childersburg, along with a 16-year-old from Sylacauga, in the Oct.

Newsprint maker AbitibiBowater is idling one of the machines at its Coosa Pines paper mill indefinitely, which could mean laying off 85 employees.

Clanton police have arrested a fourth man in connection with a home invasion and shooting last Wednesday.

Stephen Evans, a Dothan financial consultant, today announced he will be a candidate for the Alabama Public Service Commission, Place 1, in the June 2010 Republican primary.

As Talladega County District Attorney Steve Giddens told the Childersburg City Council when asking for more money this week, funding for the Task Force is down, but drugs aren't. The Drug Task Force is on the front line when it comes to cracking down on the manufacture, distribution, sale and use of illegal drugs in our area.

Our good friend and former Childersburg resident, Betty Terrill will celebrate her 90th birthday Sept.

There were six or seven concerned residents from the Bon Air community at Tuesday's Childersburg Water Works meeting asking for water lines from the city to be extended out to their community.

Area cities are looking forward to participating in the statewide annual sales tax holiday.

Discover Talladega County, a magazine assembled by The Daily Home staff at the request of all three of Talladega County's chambers of commerce, is out and being distributed at restaurants, motels, RV parks and, hopefully soon, in rest areas throughout the state.

Sylacauga's Promise Committee is in the midst of its ongoing school supply drive.

Talladega County's unemployment rate reached a 16-year high in May at 12.9 percent and in June climbed even higher to 13.8 percent, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Leadership Childersburg has graduated another class. And with it, the city has gained another worthy project to enhance the area.

The city of Childersburg is making progress toward its facelift. Architects Jane Ross and Brandon Bias of Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood presented current plans for revitalizing the downtown area of Childersburg at the council meeting Tuesday.

A 33-year-old man is in the Talladega County Jail on a murder charge in the Sunday slaying of a Childersburg woman, Talladega's Daily Home reports.

Couples who applied for marriage licenses in Shelby County from June 30-July 6. -John Terryl Winslett, 40, of Kimberly and Kimberly Denise Winslett, 38, of Kimberly.

Sylacauga residents may finally have their own local movie theater as early as this Friday, said Sylacauga Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Carol Emlich-Bates. After numerous discussion and plans to build a new movie theater in Sylacauga fell through, Childersburg resident Tom Cox and a friend decided to make use of what Sylacauga already had ...

A landfill northeast of Childersburg has filed a request with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management to quadruple its area of operations, according to a public notice posted late last month.