Prattville – Tammy Starnes, who represents District 1 on the Autauga County School Board, has resigned after serving in that position for five and a half years, and announced that decision during Thursday night’s meeting. Starnes read an emotional resignation letter stating that this would be her last board meeting and that she would be [...]
Prattville – United States Republican Senator Richard Shelby visited Prattville Wednesday morning to discuss the national debt, the state of the economy, and health care reform, at a breakfast sponsored by the Prattville Chamber of Commerce. Since 1986, Shelby has served in the Senate, and is ranking member of the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs [...]
Montgomery, AL – Alabama Attorney General Troy King announced today in a press conference that, as the state’s chief law officer, it was within his authority to intervene and direct Governor Bob Riley’s Gambling Task Force Commander John Tyson’s actions, but he was not prepared to exercise that option … yet. In early January of [...]
Prattville – A proposal, sponsored by Council President Dean Argo, to request for annexation of Prattville High School, was passed unanimously Tuesday night at the Council meeting, despite a motion by Councilman Ray Boles to table the discussion for two weeks. “The Autauga County Board of Education and Mr. Boles have been in meetings and [...]
New York, NY – Former President Bill Clinton was admitted to New York-Presbyterian Hospital at Columbia University Medical Center Thursday afternoon, according to ABC News. A spokesperson from Clinton’s office said that he was experiencing chest pains and underwent heart surgery. Doctors inserted two stints into his native coronary artery after one of the bypass [...]
Prattville – An amendment, sponsored by Councilman Tom Miller, to allow areas annexed by the 2010 Plan to receive sanitation services, was adopted Tuesday night at the City Council meeting. The change allows those residents to have city sanitation services that will be charged to them on monthly water bills. Prattville Mayor Jim Byard Jr. [...]
Born in 1959, Bill Johnson, the oldest child of a career army soldier, grew up on air force bases until his father retired in 1973 and the family settled in Birmingham, Alabama. He attended John Carroll High School in the city, and then went to Springhill College in Mobile on a full academic scholarship, receiving [...]
Prattville – Mayor Jim Byard Jr. announced Tuesday night at the City Council meeting that January 17-23 is Good Character Week in the city and presented the proclamation to Mary Beth Pritchard of the Character Coalition. During the week, organizations and citizens of the Prattville-Autauga area who show and embrace good character traits will be [...]
Prattville – A National League of Cities (NLC) Board of Director’s Winter Retreat was held last weekend in Washington, D.C. Prattville Mayor Jim Byard Jr., in the middle of a two-year term on the Board, met with other Board members and several key people from the Obama White House to discuss the NLC’s relationship with [...]
