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4 days ago | 
franklincountytimes.com | Alyssa Sutherland |Chelsea Retherford
The Waco Rural Acres Garden Club was established in the fall of 1974. There were 16 charter members. Agnes Sugg served as its first president. Doris Bowling and Sherry Hester Holland are the only two of the 16 charter members still living. Waco is a small community and most of the garden club members are related to each other. They are dedicated to making their community noted for its beautiful flowers, vegetable gardens and other contributions.
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4 days ago | 
franklincountytimes.com | Alyssa Sutherland |Chelsea Retherford
As someone who had the honor of serving in the Alabama Legislature, I’ve seen firsthand the opportunities and challenges facing our great state. Alabama is blessed with strong communities, a rich history, and hardworking people, but there’s one area where we’re being held back our legal system. Lawsuit abuse in Alabama is quietly draining our economy, raising costs for families, and discouraging job growth.
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4 days ago | 
franklincountytimes.com | Chelsea Retherford
RUSSELLVILLE Before she became a foster parent last year, Hillary Malone Hall had volunteered for several years as a Sunday school teacher at her chur...
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4 days ago | 
franklincountytimes.com | Chelsea Retherford
RUSSELLVILLE Before she became a foster parent last year, Hillary Malone Hall had volunteered for several years as a Sunday school teacher at her church, First Baptist Church of Russellville. She said she’d considered fostering children several years before but instead felt called to children’s ministry. “I kept feeling led — that God was leading me to work with kids somewhere. I thought I knew what He needed,” Hall said. “I realized, no, that’s not what it was.
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4 days ago | 
franklincountytimes.com | Chelsea Retherford
Marriages May 9 • Chrystian Dquin Parks to Sarah Leann Downard May 13 • Christopher Rivera to Kiyla Jones May 14 • John Randle Herring to Kayleigh Marie Logan • Jalen Glenn Vinson to Alexis Danielle Tabbs • Jacob Keith Sparks to Kayley Hope Seritt May 16 • Lee Roy Timons II to Kaci Delane Clark May 20 • Riley Seth Logan Jesica Torres Garcia May 21 • Zachary Nathan Powell to Alexis Victoria Patterson May 23 • Johnny Oneal Thrasher to Jamie Leann Lovelace May 28 • Dakota Angel Andres to Claire...
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4 days ago | 
franklincountytimes.com | Chelsea Retherford
We all love our dogs. They are part of the family. We take them for daily walks around the neighborhood. We let them tag along for short rides in our vehicles. We groom them and pamper them. We spend hours outside playing fetch with them or patiently teaching them some basic obedience commands. We do it because we care. But who cares about the stray, neglected and sometimes aggressive dogs that roam our neighborhoods? In Franklin County, the members of the non-profit Second Chance Canine Advocates care.
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4 days ago | 
franklincountytimes.com | Chelsea Retherford
RUSSELLVILLE Keylee Mayfield, a sixth grader at Russellville Middle School, has always been drawn to the spotlight. At age five, she asked her parents to enroll her in voice lessons, which led to her performing at the annual Watermelon Festival in her hometown and the W.C. Handy Festival in Florence several years in a row. Within the first year of her taking voice lessons, Keylee found herself auditioning for community theater productions at the Roxy Theatre.
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6 days ago | 
timesdaily.com | Chelsea Retherford
Before she became a foster parent last year, Hillary Malone Hall had volunteered for several years as a Sunday school teacher at her church, First Baptist Church of Russellville. She said she’d considered fostering children several years before but instead felt called to children’s ministry. kAm“x <6AE 766=:?8 =65—E92E v@5 H2D =625:?8 >6 E@ H@C< H:E9 <:5D D@>6H96C6] x E9@F89E x <?6H H92E w6 ?66565[” w2== D2:5] “x C62=:K65[ ?@[ E92E’D ?@E H92E :E H2D] %96C6 H6C6 @E96C 49:=5C6? :?
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6 days ago | 
timesdaily.com | Chelsea Retherford
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1 week ago | 
timesdaily.com | Chelsea Retherford
About 32 years ago, Wallace D. Ricks sat at a checkout counter talking with his late cousin, Charles Ricks, who was the owner of the former department store, C’s Market—later known as Ace Variety—in Sheffield. It was a typical afternoon for the pair except this particular conversation led to one of Tuscumbia’s longest running events, the North Alabama African Heritage Festival. kAm}@H :? :ED a`DE J62C[ E96 76DE:G2= 24EF2==J 52E6D 324< E@ `hhc[ H96? E96 $9@2=D p7C:42? p>6C:42?
