“What I really think needs to happen — I think we need a more experienced mayor pro tem,” Councilman Kenny Kelley said.

When Terry Young was a child, his family gathered often at the home of his grandmother to look at slide shows of photographs taken by his uncle and cousin, Lee Young and Danny Pointer. Terry didn’t know it at the time, but that was the beginning of his love affair with photography.

Army National Guard Pvt. Kaylynn R. Russell has graduated from Basic Combat Training at Fort Leonard Wood, Waynesville, Mo.

Melvin Fields’ theme song could be the Willie Nelson favorite “On the Road Again.” That’s because Melvin and his wife, Faye, have visited all 50 states during their 57 years of marriage. Melvin celebrated his 80th birthday a month ago on April 6 with a party with family and friends at Bell Breakfast in Cleburne County.

The Piedmont Clyde Pike Civic Center Senior Citizens took a trip to the Blue Bell Creameries, Inc., in Sylacauga to tour the ice cream company’s business operations.