Montevallo News

A group in Shelby County is building membership and support toward starting an NAACP branch for the area that is at the center of litigation challenging parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the U.S. Supreme Court.

After controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan was the featured speaker at rallies in central Alabama last Friday to stir support for the Voting Rights Act, a different group supporting the same cause is holding a separate rally in response this Saturday.

The Shelby County Commission this week approved agreements with the Alabama Department of Transportation to improve a railroad crossing in Alabaster and two around the Montevallo area.

Since Nov. 19, Mike Checchi of Alabaster has traded in his career in the construction industry in order to sell his Kansas City-style slow-smoked barbecue as his full-time profession.

Shelby County government representatives plan to attend this month's meeting of the Alabama Forever Wild Land Trust board to encourage the group to purchase land along the Cahaba River for preservation and public access.

Those named to the President's List include Kimberly G. Hagood and Leah E. Pedersen, both of Somerville; William C. Hasenbein of Falkville; Deborah F. Nichols of Hartselle and Anna E. Shelton of Danville.

The Montevallo City Council today supported $14,250 in funding to help pay for a full-time school resource officer under a partnership with the Shelby County Board of Education and commissioners.

The Shelby County Commission this morning awarded the bid for the construction of 16 T-hangars at the airport to Montevallo-based Wayne Davis Construction.

Four Shelby County defendants accused of murder in the death of a Pelham man last August have pleaded not guilty to their charges.

KISSIMMEE, Fla.- A Birmingham man is in a Florida jail Saturday charged with the death of a child who drowned in a pool.

The University of Montevallo is planning to raze an old disused structure on campus that many years ago served as a laundry facility and replace it with a new art building after getting support from the institution's Board of Trustees in May.

Jim Smothers, a 34-year veteran of The Daily Home has been named commentary editor of the newspaper, effective today.

I have a group of 4 from South Central Louisiana wanting to get out of state. Looking for a 4-5 hour drive, so that would put MS/AL coast in the range.

Q: Is there some trick to growing the native climbing hydrangea? I've had one that I've tried to grow on a tree for several years and it is barely climbing and not flowering.

Christina French will attend Jefferson State College and Nikki Aldrich will attend the University of Alabama.

A multimillion-dollar improvement project for Main Street in downtown Montevallo took a major step forward Tuesday with a green light to hire an engineer.

The Pelham Library Guild is seeing results from the $2,500 scholarship it provides annually to a Pelham High School graduating senior.

The Alabama Department of Transportation this week is performing guardrail repairs on some state roads in Shelby County that will require lane closures and cause delays.

The cover art for "Patches of Light," the new album from Mobile-based band 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, was crafted by Birmingham-based artist Daniel Lawson.

Volunteers canvased the Alabama National Cemetery in Montevallo, Alabama Saturday morning to place about 2100 flags at grave sites of veterans interned there.