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 [...]
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 as [...]
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 [...]
Prattville – Wilderness Park has been revitalized by city crews who have been hard at work since January at cleaning up the thicket and the dead trees that had fallen over the walking paths. Broken asphalt was removed on the walking trail and replaced by a smaller type of gravel called crush and run. City [...]
Prattville – On Friday, January 30, Our Prattville reported on deteriorating and dangerous conditions at Cooters Pond Park in Prattville. The fencing that protected park visitors from the steep bluff above the waterline was missing. Today, we revisited the area to see if any progress had been made in correcting these issues. We saw a [...]
Prattville – Serious issues are cropping up at Cooters Pond Park in Prattville. While surveying the upper level area of the park on Friday, several items in the picnic areas were found to be in either deteriorating or downright dangerous condition. Of the utmost concern is an area of fencing that separates the park from [...]
Prattville – Ilex Opaca or American Holly is a popular greenery used for decoration during the Christmas season and the tree can be found at Cooters Pond Park in Prattville. You can see it near the pavilion at the overlook area of the park. Right now the berries are ripe and are a beautiful red [...]
Prattville – Back in 1947, eleven years before the city of Prattville purchased Pratt Park as part of the grounds for Washington Junior High School, football was played there. In my mind, I can only imagine how the quarterbacks and running backs must’ve zigzagged to avoid the many ducks who currently reside there. Possibly the [...]
Prattville – For the Thanksgiving season, the city of Prattville planted fall gardens downtown and dressed them with hay bales, scarecrows, and cornstalks. Jan McDowell and the PDU (Prattville Downtown Unlimited) led the project and did an outstanding job. These gardens attracted numerous species of beautiful butterflies. There were at least five yellow ones and [...]
Prattville – The 27th annual Spinners Arts & Crafts Show began today. Many vendors were there cooking up their specialties, all the way from cotton candy to alligator-on-a-stick. Booths were set up to sell jewelry, dream catchers, quilts, purses, homemade goods, paintings, furniture, etc. A local first-time author from Marbury, Nancy Bone Goff, was there [...]
