New Site News

Tallapoosa County agencies received much needed money from the Alabama Legislature's Community Service Grant program this week.

The New Site City Council discussed extending water lines on several roads during its regular meeting Monday.

The number of people using public transportation provided by the Area Referral and Information Service for the Elderly has remained steady during the last two years even as donations decreased.

A four year investigation nets three arson arrests. A New Site man is charged with intentionally setting fire to his business.

A local man, who was reported to have held his parents hostage in their Tallapoosa County home before kidnapping his mother, spent the weekend in jail where he remains while awaiting a bond hearing.

Authorities spent a portion Friday afternoon looking for an a oearmed and dangerousa man on Alabama 22 in the New Site area who may have been connected with a alleged abduction, scanner reports indicated.