By Channing King Chances are, you or someone you know has issues with their thyroid gland. Some have overactive thyroid glands, while others are under-active. You may be someone who is confused about the thyroid gland and its job. Let me shed some light on this important gland. Thyroid hormones are responsible for the regulation of metabolism in your body. Thyroid hormones run through the thyroid gland. Thi ...

By Lee Weyhrich The Pinson City Council last week voted to clear six acres of land north of the Pinson Valley High School baseball field for a future football practice field. During the previous city council meeting, Pinson Valley head football coach Matt Glover requested to allow development of land near the north end zone of Willie Adams Stadium for use as a practice field and additional parking. After so ...

By Jason Bradley A Trussville native serving in Afghanistan for the last nine months is home. Army Staff Sgt. Joseph Fulmer served the past nine months in Kabul, Afghanistan, his second tour. Fulmer returned home Monday. Fulmer is married to Gina Fulmer. They have two boys, ages 7 and 4. Fulmer was picked up at a “Welcome Home” ceremony in Pelham. He then surprised his boys at a restaurant in Trussville on ...

By Gary Lloyd They instruct and encourage from the sidelines, and they lead weight room and on-field workouts. Stephone and Stephen Sheffield are twin brothers, both about 5-foot-4, who will be seniors on this year’s Clay-Chalkville football team. Stephone is a running back who rushed 43 times for 389 yards and four touchdowns last season. Stephen is a linebacker who recorded eight tackles and one tackle fo ...

By Gary Lloyd The Trussville City Board of Education on Monday approved the name of the new football stadium and field. Once it’s constructed, the new high school football stadium will be called Hewitt-Trussville Stadium. The field will be called Husky Field. School board member Danny Garrett said Trussville City Council members, Athletics Director Karen Johns, students and parents were polled about a new n ...

By Gary Lloyd The Trussville City Board of Education on Monday approved plans for two new elementary schools -- one in Magnolia Place and the other in the Cahaba Project, preserving the building that housed Trussville’s original high school and a middle school. Each school will house roughly 400 students, with a capacity of about 500. Construction, including equipment necessary for students to move in, will ...

By Gary Lloyd A car crashed through the front doors of the Trussville Post Office on Watterson Curve on Monday at about 10 a.m. There were no injuries in the accident, said Trussville Fire Department Battalion Chief Tim Shotts. [caption id="attachment_6291" align="alignleft" width="300"] This car crashed into the Trussville Post Office on Monday morning.photo by Scott Buttram[/caption] The front lobby of th ...

By Gary Lloyd A yard sale benefitting a Clay teen with cancer will be Saturday. A yard sale in the parking lot of NorthPark Baptist Church on Deerfoot Parkway will begin at 8 a.m. The yard sale will benefit Justin Sipka, a Clay-Chalkville High School senior who has been battling osteosarcoma for nearly two years. Sipka has had multiple surgeries, a hip replacement and months of chemotherapy. After five mont ...

By Gary Lloyd Here are three videos from Saturday’s AHSAA Class 6A state championship series between Pelham and Hewitt-Trussville. Pelham won two games 3-2 and 1-0 to claim its second state championship in school history, the first coming in 2004. It was the first time Hewitt-Trussville reached the final series, making the semifinals one other time, in 1978. [caption id="attachment_6266" align="alignleft" w ...

By Gary Lloyd They both had a tinge of red in their eyes, the sparkle of a tear or two forming. First-year Pelham head baseball coach Sean Anderson told first-year Hewitt-Trussville head coach Jeff Mauldin congratulations on a great season. Mauldin told Anderson he was proud of him, happy for him. They’re both first-year coaches at their respective schools because Mauldin left Pelham a year ago to take the ...