By Lucy Frost-Helms, Copy editor If you’re a fan of the outdoors, national parks, conservation or the systems that manage it all, then you may enjoy Dr. Scott Turner’s National Parks and Public Lands class.…
Rozelle’s “Ballad of Jasmine Wills”: inventive but unfocused
By Cady Inabinett In his debut novel “Ballad of Jasmine Wills,” Montevallo English professor Dr. Lee Rozelle follows the titular Jasmine as she is kidnapped by reality TV producer Preston Price and forced to participate in…
Napier Hall closed for emergency maintenance
Updated on Jan. 25, 2022 at 1:50 p.m. to reflect new information. Updated on Jan. 25, 2022 at 3:41 to reflect new COVID-19 numbers for students isolating on campus. By Cady Inabinett University officials announced…
Discord over new Historic Commission appointment
By Cady Inabinett Disharmony arose between the Montevallo City Council and a member of the Montevallo Historic Preservation Commission at the council’s Jan. 10 meeting. The council moved to appoint a new member to the…
City signs on to class action suit against…
By Cady Inabinett The Montevallo City council voted to join a class action lawsuit against Endo International—a pharmaceutical company that produces opioids—at their Dec. 28 meeting. The state of Alabama filed a lawsuit against the manufacture over…
City Council honors former Montevallo firefighter
By Cady Inabinett The Montevallo City Council opened their Dec. 13 meeting with a proclamation honoring former Montevallo firefighter Matthew Durham. Durham, who passed away Nov. 18, began working with the Montevallo Fire Department in 2000…
SGA hosts card and sock drive
by Cady Inabinett, News editor SGA hosted a holiday card and sock drive event benefitting Columbiana Health and Rehabilitation, a nursing care home in Columbiana, on Dec. 1. At the event, students were provided supplies, such as paper and markers, to make…
Council passes truck traffic and no-parking ordinances
By Cady Inabinett The Montevallo City Council approved two new ordinances at their Nov. 8 meeting. Both were introduced at the group’s prior meeting on Oct. 25. The first ordinance prohibits through-traffic for trucks on roads within city…