By Gary Lloyd Trussville City Schools’ five media specialists’ grant proposal has been selected and they will represent Fund for Teachers as fellows this summer. Media specialists Rachel Brockman, Christi Williamson, Jamie Peerson, Donna Speegle and Technology Integration Specialist April Chamberlain will travel to Chicago as part of a professional development trip to learn about the Learning Commons model ...

By Gary Lloyd Two Hewitt-Trussville High School students have been named as one of top six finalists in the Junior Achievement Biz Plan Challenge. Kevin Elmore and Patrick Falkner made a turtle shell waterproof storage case for kayaks. Elmore helped develop the project through his engineering class at the high school. The duo’s PowerPoint presentation and knowledge of the product impressed the panel of five ...

By Gary Lloyd Four residents of Golden LivingCenter in Trussville have earned their black belts. Shirley Moye, Annie Forman, Kathy Myers and Paul Lentz recently earned their black belts after regularly training with Japan International Karate Academy’s Michele Perkins for the last three years. [caption id="attachment_5745" align="alignleft" width="150"] Michele Perkins, Sensai Chris Butts and Shirley Moyesu ...

By Gary Lloyd Trussville will celebrate Earth Day on the Mall in downtown Trussville on Saturday. The cleanup will begin at 7:30 a.m. Groups who wish to clean up must be registered in order to receive T-shirts. You can register online at www.trussville.com or fax your entry to 205-655-2315.  Each group will be assigned an area in Trussville to pick up trash. Garbage bags and gloves will be provided. Each gr ...

By Gary Lloyd A Hewitt-Trussville High School duo last week placed third in the senior engineering division of the Alabama Science and Engineering Fair in Huntsville. Seniors Darby Franklin and Bella Goubeaux competed against 239 science projects in the fair. Their “Sip and Puff Robotic Arm Exoskeleton for a Quadriplegic” finished in third place in the senior engineering division. The project finished in th ...

By Gary Lloyd The Trussville Area Chamber of Commerce has announced that the Miss City Fest Pageant will be April 27 at 3 p.m. at the Trussville Civic Center. All who participate will receive a tiara, and winners will be presented at the 33rd Annual Trussville City Fest on May 4. Winners will be eligible to ride in the Trussville Christmas parade this year. There are no residency restrictions, and anyone ca ...

By Gary Lloyd Former “American Idol” finalist Danny Gokey will headline this year’s Trussville City Fest. The 33rd annual festival, formerly known as Dog Daze, is presented by the Trussville Area Chamber of Commerce and will be May 3-4 at The Mall in downtown Trussville. Admission is free. Gokey, who finished third in Season 8 of the television competition, will perform May 3 at 8 p.m. Gokey is a country mu ...

By June Mathews Just over a year ago, several Trussville-area individuals, each with a desire to help orphans around the world, joined forces to establish a nonprofit organization called No Longer. The group’s ultimate challenge, said Blake Kersey, children’s minister at First Baptist Church Trussville and one of the nine co-founders of No Longer, is to work until there are “no longer” any orphans in need. ...

By Gary Lloyd Turkey Creek Nature Preserve in Pinson will be hosting a bioblitz April 20. A bioblitz is an event that focuses on finding and identifying as many species as possible in a specific area over a short period of time. The goal of the bioblitz, also known as a biological inventory or biological census, is to get an overall count of the plants, animals, fungi and other organisms that live in the pr ...

By Gary Lloyd Bullying is not accepted at Paine Intermediate School in Trussville. The fourth-grade students at the school ended their Civil Rights movement unit of study with a protest against bullying Friday. “These students have witnessed bullying firsthand and want to put a stop against it,” said fourth-grade teacher Rebekah Tomlinson. Tomlinson said the students know the best way to protest something i ...