A man-made lake off 55th Street that was built nearly 20 years ago is gaining quite a reputation as a place to go water ...

On Monday, the West Point City Council discussed its plans for the 2025 millage rate. As of now, the council is proposing to keep the 2025 rate the same as last year’s at 7.852 mills, but a decision ...

According to ancestral samples that I provided to a reputable company, my people came from Scandinavia (mainly Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.)  Having that knowledge naturally made we inquire into what ...

Katherine Turner Farr was born in Atlanta twenty-one years ago.  She was the first of five children, who would include three ...

Johnny Wood was appointed to the Lanett City Schools District 3 seat last year to serve Tony Edmondson’s unexpired term, and ...

At the Monday meeting of the Valley City Council, a resolution was approved to purchase a six-acre tract of land and notice ...

Micah Messer has officially announced his candidacy for the  Alabama House of Representatives in District 38.  A lifelong ...

On Saturday, members of American Legion Post 67 met at Sunny’s Home Cooking to plan for two upcoming events they will be ...

This feature originally ran in the May/June 2025 edition of the Valley Living magazine, a publication produced bi-monthly by ...

Two weeks ago I reminisced about what we found to do for fun in LaGrange in the late 70s when I came here at age 17 to attend college. I promised to gather my husband’s input about how he and his ...

Rodney “Rod” Ross, a Lanett mayoral candidate, cares for his city’s future. The lifelong resident was born in the West ...

Lanett High won’t just have a new football field this year. They will also have a new flag football program. On Aug. 28 at 6 p.m., the Lanett flag football team will take the field for the first time ...