PHOTO: Members of the Fort Payne High School JROTC raise the flags at Fort Payne Patriot's Park; located as you enter the city on Alabama Highway 35. (Tyler Pruett | Southern…
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Marine Mom and the Marine Corps League ensured flags were up for Memorial Day
PHOTO: Jim Nabors of Trenton, GA (Past Sergeant At Arms); and Tony Goolesby of Sylvania (Sergeant At Arms) with the U.S. Army Flag, one of the six flags raised at the Mountain View…
Fort Payne American Legion to hold memorial in honor of Four Chaplains
PHOTO: When a troop transport was torpedoed by a German Submarine in frigid waters, four chaplains gave up life vest and their lives so others may live. (Wikimedia Commons) By Tyler Pruett, Managing Editor tyler@southerntorch.com…
Two centuries of hospitality and history
Featured image: Winston Place’s wrap-around porch has been looking over Valley Head for almost two centuries (Photo by Tyler Pruett) By Tyler Pruett, Managing Editor tyler@southerntorch.com VALLEY HEAD, Ala. — For almost…
UPDATED: Fort Payne PD Corrections Officer Cody Wells Yarborough killed in tragic car accident
By Joseph M. Morgan UPDATED: MONNDAY, 9:37 a.m. >> FORT PAYNE, Ala.—Fort Payne PD Corrections Officer Cody Ledale Wells, 23, of Fort Payne was killed in a fatal, single-vehicle car accident…
DeKalb County voters to decide on seats in U.S. House and Senate
By Tyler Pruett tyler@southerntorch.com Because 2016 is a presidential election year and media coverage of the presidential race is so extensive, the importance of other races on the ballot—county, statewide, even…
Sen. Phil Williams: I will not take this for granted
By Sen. Phil Williams I carry a simple photograph in my wallet. The picture was taken in early 2004 and at first glance it is not a remarkable image. But the…