CULLMAN - Due to the expected high amount of boat traffic on Smith Lake this 4th of July weekend, Sheriff Matt Gentry has activated...
COLONY - The Colony Town Council is still trying to fill the vacancy created by the departure of Myra Twitty in early May. At...
State Rep. Randall Shedd, R-Fairview and Cullman Regional’s Lindsey Dossey / W.C. Mann
CULLMAN - The close relationship between the Cullman County Board of Education...
Updated 6-30-17 at 6:09 p.m.
CULLMAN COUNTY - Each year when the 4th of July rolls around, families and neighborhoods have get-togethers and barbecues to...
Some eastbound motorists are confusing the St. Bernard turn lane (between double yellow lines) for the passing lane that previously began just up the...
Denise Burroughs / Courtesy of Cullman High School
NEW YORK – Denise Burroughs, an AP English literature teacher at Cullman High School, has been selected...
CULLMAN - A group of Cullman County drug trafficking defendants have filed a class action civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court against...
Aimee Bates, technology integration specialist for Cullman City Schools, checks in with attendees of the Educator Alumni Connection workshop hosted by the Wallace State...
Sheriff Gentry addresses the WaLLi class at Wallace State on Wednesday, June 28, 2017. / W.C. Mann
HANCEVILLE - Cullman County Sheriff Matt Gentry visited...
Dr. Lane H. Friedman / Facebook
Updated 6-29-17 at 9:09 a.m.
CULLMAN - A doctor with Cullman Internal Medicine died this week while on vacation with...
The new athletic training center will be in the old band building at Good Hope High School. / Good Hope High School on Facebook
GOOD...
2016 EvaBank Midnight Run / Tribune File Photo
CULLMAN – Get ready to get your glow on at the 2017 EvaBank Midnight Run on Friday,...
Left to right: Cullman Economic Development Agency Director Dale Greer, Cullman Mayor Woody Jacobs, Scott Stadthagen and Cullman City Council President Garlan Gudger/ Andrew...
Wallace State welding program chair Jim Thompson discusses the NC3 safety procedures his department has instituted. / Wallace State
HANCEVILLE - Wallace State Community College’s...
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CULLMAN - Earlier this month, a mix-up with the delivery of a large supply of donated food...
Firefighters take time out of a busy training day to welcome young visitors. / W.C. Mann
HANCEVILLE - Hanceville Fire Station No. 1 was a...
Brent Donald Sigala, 44 / Cullman County Sheriff’s Office
Updated 6-27-17 at 6:40 p.m.
CULLMAN COUNTY - Following tips from residents living on County Road 1101,...
Julian Morris, left, talks with County Engineer John Lang after Tuesday morning's commission meeting. / W.C. Mann
CULLMAN - County Road 222 has become infamous...
radKIDS instructor and Cullman Police Department DARE Officer Cindy Rohrscheib demonstrates the self-defense stance./ Heather Mann
CULLMAN - Something special is going down at the...
Cullman Fire Rescue Chief Edward Reinhardt, Firefighter of the Year Lt. Jason Lamb with his son Nathan, EMT of the Year Chase Cornell, and...
Rep. Corey Harbison, R-Good Hope and Alabama Sec. of State John Merrill are hosting a voter registration drive on Saturday, July 1 from 9...
Rep. Randall Shedd, R-Fairview speaks at an event in Cullman earlier this year. / Andrew Cryer
MONTGOMERY - Speaker of the House Mac McCutcheon, R...
Cullman Middle School Principal Lane Hill, with Superintendent Dr. Susan Patterson, accepts an award naming his school a 2017 National Beta School of Merit....
BIRMINGHAM - Eighty-nine outstanding rising high school seniors from 24 counties and 56 high schools in Alabama were selected to attend the 2017 Alabama...
HANCEVILLE - Wallace State Community College has been declared an Official Campus Site for MLD Certification Campus of Alabama, making it the only school...
JOHNSON'S CROSSING - The Cullman County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of a 3-week-old infant in the Johnson's Crossing community.
Emergency responders from the...
CPD DARE Officer Cindy Rohrscheib with a participant in last year's radKIDS camp / Tribune File Photo
CULLMAN - From June 26-30, the Cullman Police...
TUSCALOOSA - A total of 11,101 students enrolled during the 2017 spring semester at The University of Alabama were named to the Dean's List...
HANCEVILLE - Area educators who want to break out of the rut and get some new ideas for their classrooms will want to take...
Wallace State CDL students Kalob Suttles, left, and Donnie McKay, with instructor Ben Matanane. Suttles and McKay are two recent graduates of the CDL...
The Holly Pond Café is now open for business. / Heather Mann
HOLLY POND - After a lengthy renovation, Holly Pond's namesake restaurant has reopened...
Earl Smith, right, speaking with Thierry Ptlantanida, gave his first-hand account of the near-miss nuclear disaster that he helped to divert, in 1961, near...
WaLLi members from Wallace State Community College toured Bryant-Denny stadium and the Paul W. Bryant Museum in Tuscaloosa, with a side trip to Dreamland...
HANCEVILLE - Registration begins Tuesday, June 27 for Summer Mini Term II at Wallace State Community College, with the five-week classes set to start...
Ronnie Regina Millar, 35, left, and Jesse Dean Thomas, 34 / Cullman County Sheriff's Office
BERLIN - A man and woman from the Berlin community...
Cullman officially welcomed Escape Cullman to town with a ribbon cutting on Thursday, June 22. / Photo courtesy of the Cullman Area Chamber of...
Hanceville has added $119,000 in revenue this year from the City’s half-cent sales tax enacted in December. / W.C. Mann
HANCEVILLE - Mayor Kenneth Nail...
Superintendent Shane Barnette, standing, shows board members the interior of one of the new school buses. / Heather Mann
CULLMAN - In an effort to...
UPDATED June 22, 7:20 p.m.
Cullman City Police Chief Kenny Culpepper says that the scene at Comfort Suites has been cleared. "The call came in...
The West Point Town Council meets on the third Monday of each month at 6 p.m. at West Point Town Hall. / Heather Mann
WEST...
Hanceville Mayor Kenneth Nail wants New Orleans’ Confederate monuments. / W.C. Mann
HANCEVILLE - White supremacist Dylann Roof’s 2015 murder of nine members of the...
Cullman police responded to a reported attempted robbery this morning at the Chevron on U.S. 278 near I-65. / Rod Wynn
CULLMAN - Mental illness...
Henry Dewey Loyd / Cullman County Sheriff's Office
CULLMAN - Cullman County Sheriff's Office (CCSO) investigators today arrested Henry Dewey Loyd, 44, of Cullman on...
The Cullman Lioness Club recently awarded $1,000 scholarships to three students for promoting community service and leadership in the Cullman area.
Pictured from left to...
Updated 6-22-17 at 9:52 a.m.
The new Cullman Milo’s will be located at 1830 Patriots Way SW. / Wendy Sack
CULLMAN - Those hankering for a...
Image shows Tropical Storm Cindy’s projected path, as of 7 a.m. Thursday morning. / NOAA National Hurricane Center
CULLMAN - The current weather situation in...
Timmy G. Twilley, 49 / Cullman Police Department
CULLMAN - A west Cullman neighborhood was startled awake minutes past midnight on Monday, June 19, when...
Marilyn cracks open a Diet Mountain Dew. She said to eat whatever you want to eat and do whatever you want to do./ Wallace...
TUSCALOOSA - The University of Alabama awarded approximately 5,000 degrees during spring commencement May 5-7.
Area students who received degrees include:
William Collins, of Arab, Bachelor...
HATTIESBURG - The University of Southern Mississippi has released its President’s and Dean’s Lists for the 2017 spring semester.
Brooke Allison Duke, of Bremen, made...
Jonathan Franklin Davis, 32, of Cullman / Cullman Police Department
CULLMAN - A Cullman man was arrested and charged with trafficking in methamphetamine following a...
Shown, clockwise from top left: Bill Browning, Dr. Will Boyd, Van Caldwell, Mark Johnson, Brian McGee, MB Wain, Patricia Todd and Jason Fisher /...
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The Western Pygmy Rattlesnake is found in Alabama. / JOEL SARTORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTO ARK/National Geographic Creative
CULLMAN - First, you may never see...
On Tuesday, April 12, 2016, 100 participants from the 2016 National Arc Welding Conference visited Topre Corporation in Cullman. / Tribune File Photo
CULLMAN -...
Lion Ed Henke receives the first Helen Keller Legacy Award. / Andrew Cryer
CULLMAN - The Cullman Lions and Lionesses held a joint dinner Monday...
HANCEVILLE - Wallace State Community College English instructor Cindy Smith, left, and President Dr. Vicki Karolewics, right, accept a $200 donation from Roosevelt Oliver...
Josh Hembree and family/ Courtesy of Cullman High School, Kim Hall
NEW YORK – Josh Hembree, an AP Calculus teacher at Cullman High School, has...
Norman’s name plate still hangs in front of his empty seat in town hall. / W.C. Mann
GARDEN CITY - At Monday evening’s meeting, the...
The new Five Below store in the Cullman Shopping Center will be in the building left vacant by Hancock Fabrics. / MRP
CULLMAN - Specialty...
The Cullman High School Class of 1962 had its 55-year reunion on Saturday night at Top of the Town. They were the very first...
BATTLEGROUND - Camp Liberty is now in its second year in Cullman County, after previously being in Marion, Alabama, and is expanding for those...
Members of the CCS yearbook team with their award bannerI / Leeanna Smith
CULLMAN - Recently, Cullman Christian School became one of only four schools...
Amy Freeman Williams/ Facebook
CULLMAN - A former Cullman resident was killed Saturday night in Nashville. According to Nashville's WKRN, Amy Freeman Williams, 41, was...
Vila Tyree celebrated her 92nd birthday on June 4, 2017. She has lived most of her life in the Helicon community. Vila was a...
GOOD HOPE - Good Hope's latest city council meeting started off on a positive note with the financial report showing that excise taxes have...
VINEMONT - The Vinemont Town Council kicked off this month’s meeting by reviewing the results of the recent town audit, which showed no problems...
Last week, students got to construct an electronic circuit to power a light. / Patricia Ponder
COLONY - The latest Colony Town Council meeting included...
MONTGOMERY - Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces around the country, including the Alabama Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, hosted by the...
Employees of Yutaka Technologies spent Friday cleaning Cullman’s Good Samaritan Health Clinic as part of Honda’s National Week of Service. / Andrew Cryer
CULLMAN -...
The stock car that Gene Norman raced in for the final time three weeks ago in Arkadelphia / Johnny Thornton
HANCEVILLE - Funeral services were...
Skylar Bolton was badly injured in a car wreck on June 9. / Courtesy of Stephanie Morton
CULLMAN - Friends of a local woman who...
CULLMAN - The 6th Annual “Bow-Up Against Breast Cancer” 3-D Archery Tournament took place at the Cullman Community Archery Park on June 10-11. Bowhunters...
Judge Kim Chaney, left, presents Scott Santoro with the Department of Homeland Security a few tokens of appreciation for his work this week in...
Young baseball players flocked to the Cullman High School baseball camp this week for a chance to meet and learn from their favorite Bearcats....
Brigadier Gen. Robert L. Stewart, a former U.S. astronaut, addresses the crowd at the Cullman Elks Lodge Wednesday evening. / Andrew Cryer
CULLMAN - The...
The Hanceville High School band is raising money to buy new uniforms. / Hanceville High School Band on Facebook
HANCEVILLE - The Hanceville High School...
CULLMAN - It was a weekend packed with car shows in Cullman, and one of the biggest was the annual Mopars on the Street...
Midway Medical Clinic is open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., and is located at 111 Brooklyn Road in Holly Pond. Appointments can be made...
BIRMINGHAM - McDonald’s of Central Alabama has announced the third year of its successful McDonald’s McBackpack Giveaway. Over two weekends, July 27-29 and August...
Image courtesy of the Alabama Retail Association
CULLMAN - To make sure that everyone can do their shopping before the start of the school year,...
Instructors Morgan Moore, Rachel Eidson and Rachel McPhillips / W.C. Mann
CULLMAN - It’s an exercise place, and it’s next door to the Duchess Bakery,...
Dr. Wayne Williams / Leeanna Smith
Cullman Christian School is proud to announce the hiring of Dr. Wayne Williams as principal.
"I have worked for over...
CULLMAN - The Cullman County Commission on Tuesday awarded Triple J Construction the bid for construction of the new senior center and sheriff’s office...
The Cullman City School Board met early Wednesday morning at a special called meeting. / W.C. Mann
CULLMAN - At a special called meeting early...
Astronaut Robert L. Stewart in untethered flight / NASA
CULLMAN - The Cullman Elks Lodge will hold its annual Flag Day celebration, a patriotic and...
Wanda Creel has her blood pressure checked during the CELEBRATE Adult Health and Wellness Fair hosted by the Wallace State Community College Department of...
Rachel Ann Reeves, Charles Cameron Simmons and Steven Andrew Waters / Cullman Police Department
GOOD HOPE - Local authorities made a substantial drug bust recently,...
FOP representative Ronald Ultz presents the AED to Capt. J.P. White / Heather Mann
CULLMAN - The Cullman Police Department on Tuesday morning received an...
CULLMAN - This Saturday June 17, starting with registration for the Duck Dash 5K at 6 a.m. and opening of the Duck Drawdown Festival...
CULLMAN - Brad Meeks, 27, the man at the center of the investigation into the crash that killed Cullman High School student Curtis Wilson,...
Wallace State Community College President Dr. Vicki Karolewics presents a certificate to James W. Meherg about the formation of the James W. Meherg Endowed...
Sherman Roberts had the oldest operational tractor at the show, a 1939 Farmall “H” / W.C. Mann
HANCEVILLE - Who would have thought that a...
CULLMAN - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security defines human trafficking as “a form of modern-day slavery, and involves the use of force, fraud,...
Guests were asked to sign a “CW” for Curt’s mother, Ashley Wilson./ W.C. Mann
CULLMAN - On Sunday afternoon, the Cullman Elks Lodge was the...
Dale Greer / Cullman Economic Development Agency
I see Cullman continuing to grow, continuing to prosper. I think we’ll be very progressive, but I think...
2016 Burgermeister, Rev. John Richter / Andrew Cryer
CULLMAN - Cullman’s annual Oktoberfest celebration is scheduled for Oct. 4-8 this year, and nominations for Burgermeister...
Saxon Levi Waid, 3, the son of a couple killed in a wreck near Duck River Bridge / GoFundMe
CULLMAN COUNTY - A GoFundMe page...
CULLMAN - The Festhalle and Warehouse District were hopping Friday night, as the Cullman Area Chamber of Commerce and Cullman Parks and Recreation held...
The Heritage Park soccer fields some time prior to this year's Rock the South/ Cullman Parks and Recreation
We want to reassure you that Heritage...
The staff of the courthouse donation bus
CULLMAN - There are many ways to help people, and the most common way is to donate to...
