Alabama News Network wants to help you celebrate America’s Independence. Whether you’ll be staying in our local area or traveling somewhere else in Alabama, here is a list of July 4th events courtesy of the Alabama Tourism Department: Alexander City – 4th of July Boat Parade Decorate your boat and join the patriotic crowd at Kowaliga Marina as boats of all…
A single-vehicle crash in Pike Road has claimed the life of a Shorter man. According to ALEA Corporal Jess Thornton, Michael Jerome Hall, 53, was killed when the 2012 Ford F-150 he was driving left the roadway and hit a ditch. According to Thornton, Hall was not using a seat belt and was pronounced dead at the scene. The crash occurred on Alexander Road in…
The town of Pike Road held their 9th Annual Community Yard Sale Saturday morning. Vender booths sold out at the event. 80 venders sold various items from clothing to artwork to ATV parts and golf carts. The yard sale was in the parking lot of the Pike Road Town Hall and hosted by the Pike Road Lions Club. All of…
A pike road American Legion post is giving back to the community this holiday season. American Legion Centennial Post 2019 teamed up with Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church to provide meals for fifty veterans. Volunteers from the popular food delivery app Waiter helped with food preparation and delivery. The food was provided by Jim N Nicks BBQ and Kings Table…
There is only one church that can say it’s lasted longer than the amount of time Alabama has been a state. That church celebrated it’s bicentennial birthday Sunday with a special service dedicated to remembering its founding members and previous pastors. Antioch Baptist Church at Mount Meigs in Pike Road was built in June 1818, over a year before the…
Time is quickly running out, before the pending sale of the Georgia Washington Middle school to Pike Road Expires. A lawsuit calling to stop the sale of the school is scheduled to go before the courts later this week but for Pike Road it could be too late. Last week the city of Montgomery filed an Amicus Brief, asking…
An elementary school-aged girl in Alabama has died from the flu. Pike Road Schools Superintendent Charles Ledbetter, who’s been in contact with the girl’s parents, tells news outlets Zainab Momin died Tuesday night at a hospital. The third-grade student at Pike Road Elementary had stayed home from school Tuesday with flu-like symptoms and her fever continued to surge throughout the…
Now that Christmas is over, you may be wondering what to do with your leftover live Christmas tree. There are several cities that will take your tree to recycle it. In Montgomery, you can take your tree to one of the regular trash pickup points from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Saturday, December 30 or Saturday, January 6. The…
Military veteran Alvin Edwards signed up for the service as a teenager. “I joined the Marine Corps on my 17th birthday in 1963,” said Edwards. He went to Vietnam in 1965. “I was in Marine aircraft group 16. We flew a lot of medivacs and supplies out of Da Nang.” Edwards was among dozens of service men and women honored…
Losing a loved one can be one of the hardest things to go through especially when it’s someone you lived with. That’s the the reality for one family that recently lost their grandmother. “She was like my second mom basically, she was there for everything like first day of school she’d take our pictures,” said Gabrielle Frazier about her late-grandmother….
