By Coley Lauminick Amber Hammonds is Hewitt-Trussville’s table setter. In Friday’s Class 6A, Area 12 championship against Gardendale, she didn’t disappoint. Hammonds was 3-for-4 with three runs scored and two RBIs in the No. 6 Lady Huskies’ 12-4 championship win over Gardendale. Senior Kimberly Mullins was 4-for-4 with one RBI and a run scored. Mullins was named tournament MVP. [caption id="attachment_6091" ...

By Gary Lloyd Hewitt-Trussville will play its spring football game Thursday against Bob Jones at Bob Jones High School. Kickoff will be at 6 p.m. Hewitt-Trussville posted a 4-6 record last season and missed the Class 6A state playoffs for the first time since the 2006 season. [caption id="attachment_6088" align="alignleft" width="300"] Hewitt-Trussville’s Hal Riddle will begin his 12th season as the Huskies ...

By Lee Weyhrich The Clay City Council received its annual financial audit report Monday. In a way, the city received two reports, one as if it were a business or private entity, and another as a government organization. The difference is largely in the way debt is factored. For a government entity, debt is less important for audit purposes, as long as those funds have been used to purchase assets. The city' ...

By Gary Lloyd Chairman Bill Armistead has named Jonathan Barbee as the interim press secretary of the Alabama Republican Party. Barbee began filling the role after former Press Secretary Shana Kluck left for a position in Washington, D.C., earlier this year. Barbee’s duties include representing the party at press events, fundraisers and other functions. He is also in charge of communicating with the media a ...

By Gary Lloyd Beryl Bass’ 3-year-old daughter Jalia shows so much joy, so much excitement, when her mother veers right off Sweeney Hollow Road and into the Winchester Hills neighborhood in Clay. “Oh, we’re going to see our house!” she says. On Thursday at noon, Bass will have the key to her new home on Winchester Hills Way, where daughters Jalia and Brianna, 10, will move in. The Bass family and nine other ...

By Lee Weyhrich The Pinson City Council last week voted to allow the architectural firm of Goodwyn Mills & Cawood to begin preliminary exploratory for soil conditions and elevations in the future city park. The park will be located near Center Point Parkway between Sweeney Hollow Road and Glen Brook Road. The survey will allow the firm to adjust its design to the terrain, as well as determine the locati ...

By Gary Lloyd Hewitt-Trussville High School students Kristen Ashley and Eli Nafziger last week were presented with engraved medallions to recognize their selection as two of Alabama’s top youth volunteers for 2013 in The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards program. Ashley, a senior, was named a state honoree and received a silver medallion. She is being honored for founding a service club at her school an ...

By Gary Lloyd Cosby Lake Park in Clay will be the site of Central Alabama’s Rubber Duck Regatta, benefitting Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Alabama, on Saturday. The event starts at 10:30 a.m. with face painting, food and rides at the Marathon Foundation Family Fun Zone. The race begins at 2 p.m. With a $5 duck adoption, a bright yellow duck will be assigned a number. That duck will be released on the op ...

By Lee Weyhrich The Pinson City Council last week annexed 200 acres, connecting Pinson to the Woodhaven Lakes neighborhood. According to Mayor Hoyt Sanders and Councilman John Churchwell, notices have already been sent to residents of Woodhaven Lakes, and several residents have expressed interest in becoming part of the city of Pinson. “I believe this is our third-largest annexation, by landmass, since beco ...

By Dave Parrish Do you remember when, just a few short years ago, the government paid you $8,000 to buy a home if you hadn’t owned one in three years? How times have changed. Today’s headlines: Pending home sales increased to the highest level since April 2010. No government incentives today. But the market has improved enough to drive sales up to the sales level we were experiencing in those crazy days of ...