Archive for: March, 2009

Our Prattville Investigates: Big Lots vs. Retail Grocers

<em>Our Prattville</em> Investigates: Big Lots vs. Retail Grocers

Prattville – In these tough economic times, shoppers can use all of the help they can get saving money on everyday items. But, can closeout retail stores such as Big Lots actually save money for the consumer?
Our Prattville conducted an independent investigation in order to compare prices of certain items at Big Lots with two [...]

Fountain City Arts Festival

Millbrook park is fun and functional

Millbrook park is fun and functional

Millbrook – Memorial Center Park is a 15-acre park complex which houses Village Green, the tree-shaded park in downtown Millbrook. The park is located at the intersection of Main Street and Grandview Road and serves as a gathering place for concerts and barbecues.
Village Green features a covered stage for entertainment and the Leyburn Memorial Gazebo, [...]

4th annual Fountain City Arts Festival

4th annual Fountain City Arts Festival

Prattville – Prattville’s 4th annual Fountain City Arts Festival was held on Sunday from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. at Pratt Park. The event was rescheduled from Saturday because of inclement weather. Over fifty regional artists participated including Zachary Wickham, Russell Everett, Kasey Hope, Nancy Raia, and Charlie Lucas.
Zachary Wickham has worked professionally [...]

Exclusive Interview with Victor Alfieri

Exclusive Interview with Victor Alfieri

Model, actor, writer Victor Alfieri was born in Rome and raised as an only child by his mother and grandmother. Naming himself the “class clown,” he created his own sketch comedy act to entertain friends.
At the age of eighteen Victor did an advertising shoot and soon graced the covers of numerous Italian magazines. [...]

Web series actress Taryn O’Neill

Web series actress Taryn O’Neill

Taryn O’Neill is the star of the original Sci-Fi web series, After Judgment, and she is also a producer of the show. The series is about a group of post-apocalyptic survivors searching for an elusive entry into paradise. It premiered in October of 2008 and this year is nominated at the Streamy Awards.
The [...]

Fountain City Arts Festival events rescheduled

Fountain City Arts Festival events rescheduled

Prattville – The Office of the Mayor of Prattville, Alabama has issued the following press release regarding the rescheduling of events for the upcoming Fountain City Arts Festival:
Prattville Mayor Jim Byard, Jr. announced that several of the fourth annual Fountain City Arts Festival events scheduled for this weekend have been rescheduled due to the impending [...]

Melissa’s Blog – Blockbuster changes hours

Melissa’s Blog – Blockbuster changes hours

I happened to ride past Blockbuster last night way before ten o’clock and the lights were out…all the DVDs had gone to bed. What? Before ten? Sure enough, I looked on the door to see that the hours had been changed. Not only does the store close at 9 during the week, but they [...]

Exclusive Interview with Bradford Anderson

Exclusive Interview with Bradford Anderson

Bradford Anderson is a native of Meredith, New Hampshire, and a graduate of New York’s University’s Tisch School of Performing Arts. As a junior at Inter-Lakes High School he landed a part in a local production of Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which involved him spending time at a kind of summer theater camp with [...]

First stores in The Exchange are announced

First stores in The Exchange are announced

Prattville – Academy Sports & Outdoors and Hobby Lobby will open stores this fall in the first phase of The Exchange located at the intersection of Cobbs Ford Road and U. S. 82.
“This announcement is tremendous,” said Prattville Mayor Jim Byard, Jr. “During these tough economic times, retailers are choosing only the brightest spots in [...]

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