The Franklin County (Alabama) and Russellville City Schools will delay opening two hours on Thursday and Friday (January 4th and 5th, 2018) due to inclement weather.

A frozen water line burst and spewed water down from the ceiling in one of the Haleyville High School classrooms Tuesday evening. The cascade of water was discovered at 8 p.m. and apparently happened sometime after 4 p.m. Workers contained, then pushed the water down the hallway and outside. There the water froze and the city brought in enough sand to cover the ice slick in the front drive. Serv Pro was on the scene this morning cleaning up the remainder of the water as school teachers and administrators began their first day of in-school training for the new year. Students will return on Friday.

Alabama State Troopers investigated 23 traffic deaths during the Christmas and New Year’s Day holiday travel period, which was from 12:01 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017, to midnight Monday, Jan. 1, 2018. The total is significantly lower than the total from the same period in 2016 when Troopers investigated 31 traffic fatalities. Continue reading

Postponed from Monday because of New Year’s Day, the Haleyville City Council will meet this Thursday afternoon at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall. With a 30 day extension on closing Lakeland Hospital, the main priority is to keep it open. At the last Council meeting, a Hospital Authority was set up, a sales and use tax approved and a Tennessee Company has agreed to manage Lakeland for the time being.

Saturday, 10:52 p.m., Haleyville, Craft, Bear Creek, Pebble and Ashridge Fire Departments responded to a fire at the vacant restaurant building across from Whitman’s Service Station on Highway 195. The Building was completely engulfed in flames when the firemen arrived and a complete loss.

New Years closed Monday, January 1 & Tuesday 2.

Monday, January 1 will be picked up on Friday, Dec. 29.

Tuesday, January 2 will be picked up on Wednesday, Jan. 3

The Haleyville Board of Education met Tuesday and approved the board expenditures for November in the amount of $1,456,466.94. Amendments were approved to the general administration policy program, the HHS coaching assignments and the superintendent’s contract of employment. In addition, one use of facilities, one field trip, and one fundraiser was approved. The Board approved the resignation of Tiffany Morgan as HHS English teacher and the hiring of Jacqueline Reynolds as English teacher at HHS.  A request for maternity leave for Ashley Adamson and leave for Dina Sparks under catastrophic illness were both approved. Recipients of the Mac McAlpine Award for December:

Haleyville Elementary School, Callie Rose Beck.

From the Haleyville Middle School, Buffy Dobbs.

From Haleyville High School, Josefina Ruiz and Macy Harrison.

Students are out for the Christmas and New Year break and will return on Friday, January 5, 2018.