The Tanner family name has always been synonymous with the growth of new businesses in Hartselle. It all started when Orville W. Tanner returned home from WWII and opened a barbershop in downtown Hartselle, where the Tattoo Parlor is located today. Tanner later moved the barbershop to Tanner Heights Plaza Shopping Center when it...
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It’s hard to believe that this time last year, I was buying a Sunday paper, clipping an occasional coupon and saving a whopping two or three dollars a week! Little did I know that before long, I’d be saving 50% on my weekly purchases, getting many items for free and lowering my grocery bill...
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If you haven’t visited Hartselle’s Sedona Steak House recently, you are in for a real treat! Not only has owner Will Keliinoi improved the already impeccable atmosphere with warm, ambient mood lighting and comfy seating, he has added new and improved items to an already fabulous menu. Some of these additions include the fresh...
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For the past forty-one years Wanda Thompson has been helping students find their voices. Thompson is the choral director at Hartselle High School, and as such she has been a guiding force in bringing music into the lives of her students. “Some of them have never experienced singing in a group before,” said Thompson....
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He walked up and knocked on the door of the Morgan County Jail. Most guys were trying to get out – William Cooper McClanahan was trying his best to get in. The young GI had served in the Pacific in WWII on the USS Mercy; a hospital ship that plied the waters of a...
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With the promise of spring in the air, I have a renewed energy to tackle projects around my home. As I flip through the pages of various shelter magazines, touting organization for the New Year, I am inspired to clear out my junk drawer and to organize the laundry room. Done and done! But...
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Sometimes the course of a life is changed in an instant, a point of time referenced by something so wonderful or so horrendous that we mark everything as either coming before or after the event. For Harold and Debbie Fanning that moment came as they drove along the once familiar streets of their hometown, Ryland, Alabama. This wasn’t a...
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