By Sarah Turner, Sports editor The regular season is coming to a close in the world of college football, and teams with everything to play for laid their seasons on the line during the week…
Council Approves 2021-2022 Budget
By Cady Inabinett The Montevallo City Council adopted the city’s 2021-2022 fiscal budget at their Sept. 27 meeting. The council voted unanimously to accept this budget, making it the first fiscal budget passed since this council was sworn in November…
Changing names: The erasure of married women
By Hannah Irvin When I told my first boyfriend that I didn’t want to change my last name if we got married, he became upset. He believed that a woman taking her husband’s last name…
Montevallo residents aid Louisiana after Ida
By Madelyn Alexander Hurricane Ida brought devastation to the people of Louisiana, and when Montevallo local Jessica Frost saw some of the damage, she decided to take action. Ida made landfall in Grand Isle, La on Aug. 29 and destroyed the homes of…
Community support for MJCC prevails at council meeting
By Cady Inabinett Montevallo youth and adults alike took a stand against Mayor Rusty Nix’s recent decision to remove the Montevallo Junior Council’s seat on the city council dais, with the council’s Sept. 13 meeting being…
An Extension Cord Between Me and Montevallo
By Rose Davis Being in physical classes again this semester is, in a word, weird. The past year the university was shrunk into my room, my computer and my bed. The physical books were replaced by…
COVID-19 and evictions: The U.S. housing crisis
By Xander Swain There is a general consensus in the world that the three basic necessities of life are food, shelter and clothing. Without those three requirements, quality of life of an individual is expected…
Delta Variant Leads to Rise in Alabama COVID…
By Wesley Walter With COVID-19 cases reaching near all-time highs in Alabama, there has been growing concern among health officials about the Delta variant, a newer, more transmissible variant of COVID-19. From Aug. 22 to 28 Alabama reported 28,000 new covid cases,…