The operator of Arrowhead Landfill was in significant non-compliance with its wastewater pretreatment permit during fiscal year 2025, according to a public notice from the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) published in this week’s edition. Perry County Associates, LLC, which operates the landfill at 622 Tayloe Road near Uniontown, discharged wastewater exceeding its permit... Read More

If you thought my canning days were through, well, maybe you need to start canning to get a taste of my own medicine. Yes, by the time you’re reading this, I will have successfully seen my way through all fourteen days of the fourteen-day pickles. Yet, what I’ve been lacking in cucumbers and tomatoes has... Read More

Uniontown police have arrested two suspects in a Saturday, July 18 shooting near R.C. Hatch High School that struck two occupied vehicles following a community basketball tournament. Police Chief Michael Kiser said Sherman Deshuwn Cain, 26, of Uniontown, and a 16-year-old juvenile are each charged with two counts of discharging a firearm into an occupied... Read More

During her monthly departmental report at the Marion City Council meeting Monday, July 20, City Clerk Laura Williams Hinton announced the city’s intent to terminate service to non-paying municipal water customers. “People who haven’t paid their water bills are going to get cut off,” Hinton said, adding that an announcement would be made on the... Read More