The fourth annual Dancing by the River festival was held at Chattahoochee’s River Landing Park on Saturday, June 3. The event began at 10 a.m. and lasted until 6 p.m. and featured live music, food, and craft vendors, and a colorful train for the kids that made a circuit around the park. The event was…
The West Gadsden Historical Society has announced that it has acquired a caboose for future display at the Greensboro Railway Depot Museum. The caboose, designated CRR 1075, was originally built in 1948 for the Clinchfield Railroad, and was still in service when that railroad was merged into the Family Lines System in 1972. This will…
This Saturday, June 10, the downtown merchants of Havana will be opening their doors, setting up booths and inviting locals and visitors to shop until they drop. If you are looking for a fun day of shopping, eating at local restaurants, and mingling with the locals downtown…look no further than Havana’s Sidewalk Sale event. But…
Visit Gadsden Arts this Summer for all kinds of creative fun. The ArtZone is open every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and features a wide variety of crafty activities for all ages to enjoy, all absolutely free. Need a day of family fun? On June 24 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. is…
The Carter-Parramore High Alumni Scholarship Fund, Inc. awarded scholarships to eight graduates in the Gadsden County High School Class of 2023. The presentations were made on Wednesday, May 24 during Class Night at the high school gymnasium. The students who received the awards and the amounts they received, are as followed: Brian Ward ($2,500), Chloe’…
The Midway City Council held its monthly meeting on Thursday, June 1 at City Hall. The first item on the agenda was approval of a proclamation to celebrate Small Cities Month this June. Small Cities Month is a celebration of the contributions from cities with populations under 50,000 encouraged by the National League of Cities….
Chattahoochee residents sallied upon a surprise not too long ago in Heritage Park – the Little Free Art Studio. Allowing easel and ease of access of art to every passerby, it was welcomed as a colorful, veritable change. Yet, did you know the local history to this elegiac stand? Created by Lindsey Smitherman-Brown, professor of…
June is here, and with the arrival of a new month also comes the announcement of the newest Laws of the Month. Every month, the Havana Garden Club recognizes two yards (one residential, one commercial) for the honor of being the Havana Yard of the Month. This month, the residential award was presented to Jack…
On June 2, various groups, churches, and organizations gathered at the Quincy Track Field on Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. to support the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. The main mission is to support cancer patients, their caregivers, and the eventual eradication of cancer. Many of these groups, having personal connections to cancer, came…
As they try to defend a congressional redistricting plan, the Florida House and Senate will be able to challenge part of a 2010 constitutional amendment that set rules for drawing maps, a Leon County circuit judge said Monday. The ruling by Judge J. Lee Marsh came in a lawsuit filed by a coalition of voting-rights…
