Sand Mountain Reporter

Application deadline nears for pageant
The 2010 Miss Harvest Festival Pageant is scheduled Sept. 25, a week before the 46th annual Harvest Festival in Boaz.
September 02, 2010 - Boaz

1970 Douglas team honored at game
Players, coaches and cheerleaders from the first-ever Douglas High School football team were honored prior to Friday night’s game against Gaylesville.
August 31, 2010 - Douglas

Crossville man arrested for rape
Nicholas Jerome Sims, 29, is being held at the DeKalb County Detention Center under a $40,000 bond on charges of first-degree rape.
September 02, 2010 - DeKalb County

1 dead after deputies try to serve warrant
An investigation is under way into the fatal incident involving three deputies at a residence at in Boaz, at 12:10 p.m. Sunday.
August 31, 2010 - Etowah County

Group sees decrease in state’s grocery prices
August’s survey results show “the average cost of the items was $52.99, down 78 cents or 1.5 percent from a month earlier.”
September 02, 2010 - Marshall County

3 charged with breaking into DeKalb church
A citizen alerted the sheriff’s office to a possible crime at Belcher’s Gap Church.
April 23, 2009 - Aroney

Asbury School offers program for 4-year-old
Asbury School will offer a new preschool program for 4-year-old children beginning this fall.
July 27, 2010 - Asbury

Beulah VFD to receive money
The Beulah Volunteer Fire Department will receive more than $50,000 in federal funding.
November 13, 2007 - Beulah

Carlisle group not wanting to be a town
A band of citizens in the Carlisle community is circulating a petition, countering another group’s effort to incorporate the area into a town.
October 20, 2009 - Carlisle

Two sought in bank robbery
DeKalb County Sheriff’s deputies and the FBI are looking for two men suspected of robbing the Heritage First Bank in Crossville Saturday morning.
June 08, 2010 - Crossville

Teen charged with sodomy
A 13-year-old DeKalb County boy has been charged with sodomizing his 6-year-old brother.
August 05, 2008 - Dawson

Tough lesson on porn
A Geraldine man learned a harsh lesson that not everything on the Internet is legal for viewing.
March 07, 2009 - Geraldine

Nurse saves grandfather from burning truck
Nurse Haley Lambert became an angel of mercy for her grandfather this weekend.
December 30, 2008 - Grove Oak

St. William Seafood Festival gears up
St. William Catholic Church needed to build a building to hold services 40 years ago.
August 14, 2010 - Guntersville

Woman pleads guilty in manslaughter of infant
A tearful DeKalb County mother pleaded guilty Thursday to the manslaughter of her 5-week-old son.
May 02, 2009 - Kilpatrick

Group seeks to de-annex
Etowah County resident, who does not own land in Mountainboro, is assisting approximately 70 landowners who have signed a petition requesting de-annexation.
July 04, 2009 - Mountainboro

Man gets 40 years in dad’s death
Brian Keith Maddox was sentenced to 40 years in prison Wednesday in the murder of his 73-year-old father.
October 16, 2008 - Nixon Chapel

Sardis Chamber of Commerce to hold contest
Sardis City residents can start gathering hay, mums and scarecrows in their front yard.
August 10, 2010 - Sardis City

Woman charged with murder
A Marshall County woman has been charged with murder after the death of her husband.
August 27, 2008 - Union Grove

Whitesboro Elementary wins $30,000 in grants
Whitesboro Elementary School officials are “tickled” this week to receive some unexpected, but much needed, funding.
February 14, 2009 - Whitesboro