The story of what happened at the old Rec Building is a strange one that I did not know until I read The Story of the Sylacauga Recreation Building by Beth Yates. As previously reported, that building which opened in 1942 was built to be temporary and last for ten...
Sylacauga’s recreation program was established as a multi-faceted program that had something for everyone. It started on level ground with other nearby programs since it was a part of a federal project in 194l that funded similar buildings in Childersburg and...
The Sylacauga Recreation Building is strategically located near both B.B. Comer and Sylacauga High Schools. Soon after it opened in February 1942, almost eighty years ago, it became a gathering place for students from both schools in the afternoons and evenings, and...
The grand opening of the Federal Community Building was held on February 10, 1942, almost eighty years ago. This area had a problem, and the facility was built to have a place to solve the problem. We all know that, no matter how big, beautiful, and state of the art,...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022—Lee Sentell“What Happened Here Changed the World” Lee Sentell—a native of Ashland, Alabama and a journalism graduate of Auburn University—launched his book, The Official U. S. Civil Rights Trail: What Happened Here Changed the World on...
Bowl games have always been an exciting part of college football; but from this woman’s point of view, they are a little ho-hum now with the football championship playoff games taking center stage. Still the “our best against your best” of bowl games and parades...
Christmas is love. It is an event, not a feeling. God sent His Son to the world so that we might know Him, who is, was, and evermore shall be. He is God in human flesh, come as a little baby in an insignificant little town prophesied years before as the place of His...
I was researching when I found an interesting article in the Sylacauga Advance of February 3, 1949, that shows differences in the way our city leaders worked together back in that day and today. As Barney Fife put it, my twig is not bent toward politics; but I think...
Sometimes remembering is a warm, fuzzy feeling, but remembering can be painful. Consumers today are seeing the effects of a shortage of truckers in empty shelves. Government regulation, rising gas prices, and people’s misconceptions about the trucking industry have...
It was a different time when I was growing up in the fifties. Moms left home to work because of necessity in World War II, but the war was over and prosperity had begun to settle over small communities across this land, towns like Sylacauga. In the days of the “Leave...
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