Blount County News

State health officials hope to help kids stay in school with health screenings at school.

Highway 160 Promise had a booth at the annual Warrior Day celebration dedicated to people killed in wrecks on Highway 160.

About 80 wild horses that until recently ran wild on public land in the western United States are being brought to Oneonta by the Bureau of Land Management this weekend where they can be "adopted." "There will be some exceptional horses from the western rangelands, and you can adopt one for a minimal fee," said BLM-ES State Director Juan Palma.

Maze Farms in Blount County and Henry Cattle Company in Montgomery County will be featured in Sunday's episode of On The Job , the Alabama Public Television program that showcases often overlooked career and educational opportunities in the state.

The Marshall County Commission approved the go-ahead for a road project that will resurface Warrenton Road from the Blount County line to Fry Gap Road.

County Engineer Bob Pirando said the project will be financed with money from the federal government's annual allocation to the county for road projects.

Once a upon a time in a land far, far away, the Bargain Mom was an avid golfer. My husband and I would play to our hearts' content.

The road to Hayden is only paved with the government's good intentions. That was the feeling among many residents Monday night at as they gathered at Crossroads Baptist Church, in Warrior, to meet with an ALDOT official over the lack of progress on the Highway 160 safety project.

Two schools in the Blount County School System are dismissing early today. A spokesperson for the school system says Susan Moore Elementary School, and Susan Moore High School will dismiss at 11:30am CT Wednesday, October 28, 2009.

Snead State Community College recently hosted its annual College Days for area high school seniors.

Tim Whitley, a member of the Alabama Farmers Federation's State Beef Committee and a past president of the Blount County Farmers Federation, has been elected to the board of the Red Angus Association of America.

Alabama State Troopers have released the names of the man killed and the man who was injured in a fiery crash in Blount County on Tuesday night.

Head north on AL 75 to Oneonta this Saturday for the Blount County Covered Bridge Festival.

One person was killed and another injured after two cars collided tonight in Brooksville, struck two other cars parked in front of a gas station, and all four burst into flames.

'We have become, without meaning to, the third political party in the state of Alabama.' So said Patti Lambert as she brought her grassroots movement, Save Alabama PACT, to Sand Mountain on Tuesday.

The Alabama Environmental Management Commission on Friday sent a permit for a mining operation on the Mulberry Fork River back to an administrative law judge for further review.

MONTGOMERY a ' Governor Bob Riley announced that increased state trooper patrols started at 6 a.m. on Friday along Highway 160 in Blount County, where several serious crashes have occurred.

State troopers have begun patrolling Alabama 160 in Blount County and will be placing message boards along the road to show drivers their speeds, in the hope of encouraging motorists to slow down.

A deadly stretch of road in Blount County has claimed another life. This time, a mother of two.

Alabama is experiencing a dangerous trend of public drinking water intake sites being threatened by proposals upstream.