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Firefighters on the scene of the fully-involved blaze at Brick Haven on July 1 were frustrated with the available water pressure. This photo shows...

Tim Chambers and family opened the Chambers Farm & Garden Supply store in its new location on Wednesday, July 5. /  Chambers Farm &...

Patriots of all ages came dressed in their best red, white and blue. / W.C. Mann CULLMAN - Many came out for the fireworks, but...

The fireworks display capped off a day of fellowship at Fairview Community Park. / Heather Mann FAIRVIEW - The community of Fairview, like many across...

HANCEVILLE – Wallace State athletics had a school-record 41 student-athletes recognized recently for their academic achievements during the 2016-17 year in list released by...

Image: ALEA MONTGOMERY – Three words for this year’s 4th of July holiday travel period: no seat belts. Seat belts were available but not in use...

Image: Alabama 200 CULLMAN - You might want to keep that red, white and blue bunting up this year, after all, this year through the...

Adult cottonmouth / Alabama Cooperative Extension System Updated 7-5-17 at 11 a.m. Posted 7-4-17 at 8:02 p.m. CULLMAN - A Cullman man reported Tuesday being bitten by...

Democrat Doug Jones, left, and Republican Roy Moore, right, are the leading challengers for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Luther Strange, center....

CULLMAN COUNTY - Independence Day is here, and Cullman residents have two great options tonight to see some fireworks. Cullman Fireworks Festival The Cullman Fireworks Festival,...

United Way of Cullman County:  Funding applications for April 2018 – March 2019 will be available beginning Friday, July 7.  The deadline to return...

Sgt. Major Will Harris from Cullman's VFW Post 2214 is being briefed by Camp Liberty Commander Joe Land while cadets pass through the obstacle...

CULLMAN COUNTY - Independence Day is almost upon us.  It’s a time for parades, family get-togethers, cookouts, and of course, fireworks.  And that’s where...

CULLMAN - In observance of Independence Day, City and County offices will be on the following schedules: City of Cullman offices will be closed on...

Capt. Mark Persall, Lt. Rex Sorrow and Lt. Jeff Clemons in the main room of the training center / W.C. Mann CULLMAN - The Cullman...

Alabama Sec. of State John Merrill, Cullman County Commissioner Garry Marchman and State Rep. Corey Harbison, R-Cullman TRIMBLE - Alabama Sec. of State John Merrill...

Cullman First United Methodist Church Jamaica Missions Team / Cullman FUMC on Facebook CULLMAN - Cullman First United Methodist Church just wrapped up its fourth...

Colonel Cullmann shares his birthday cake with community members. / Andrew Cryer CULLMAN - The Cullman County Museum and staff this week celebrated the birthday...

Brick Haven, as seen the morning of Saturday, July 1, 2017 / Bridget Turner Millwood CULLMAN - A portion of wedding and event venue Brick...

See full update at http://www.cullmantribune.com/articles/2017/07/01/update-portion-brick-haven-event-venue-total-loss CULLMAN - Multiple departments are on the scene of a fully involved fire at Brick Haven, located at 1889 U.S....

Dr. Lane Friedman / Cullman Internal Medicine CULLMAN - The Utah State Medical Examiner’s Office is working to determine the cause of death of Dr....

Hanceville Mayor Kenneth Nail, second from left, called the city to action to help community member Lynda Brown.  / W.C. Mann HANCEVILLE - On Friday...

The 50th anniversary celebration gathered past and present volunteers who reminisced and celebrated the many years of service to Cullman Regional. / Cullman Regional CULLMAN...

Cullman County farmers Cody Rasco, left and Gregg DeBoer, right, met with Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Alabama in Washington, D.C. last week.  / NSAC WASHINGTON, D.C....

Johnny Michael Coggins / Cullman Police Department CULLMAN - An undercover operation led to the arrest of a Berlin man on Friday. Johnny Michael Coggins,...

CULLMAN - Due to the expected high amount of boat traffic on Smith Lake this 4th of July weekend, Sheriff Matt Gentry has activated...

COLONY - The Colony Town Council is still trying to fill the vacancy created by the departure of Myra Twitty in early May.  At...

State Rep. Randall Shedd, R-Fairview and Cullman Regional’s Lindsey Dossey / W.C. Mann CULLMAN - The close relationship between the Cullman County Board of Education...

Updated 6-30-17 at 6:09 p.m. CULLMAN COUNTY - Each year when the 4th of July rolls around, families and neighborhoods have get-togethers and barbecues to...

Some eastbound motorists are confusing the St. Bernard turn lane (between double yellow lines) for the passing lane that previously began just up the...

Denise Burroughs / Courtesy of Cullman High School NEW YORK – Denise Burroughs, an AP English literature teacher at Cullman High School, has been selected...

CULLMAN - A group of Cullman County drug trafficking defendants have filed a class action civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court against...

Aimee Bates, technology integration specialist for Cullman City Schools, checks in with attendees of the Educator Alumni Connection workshop hosted by the Wallace State...

Sheriff Gentry addresses the WaLLi class at Wallace State on Wednesday, June 28, 2017. / W.C. Mann HANCEVILLE - Cullman County Sheriff Matt Gentry visited...

Dr. Lane H. Friedman / Facebook Updated 6-29-17 at 9:09 a.m. CULLMAN - A doctor with Cullman Internal Medicine died this week while on vacation with...

The new athletic training center will be in the old band building at Good Hope High School. / Good Hope High School on Facebook GOOD...

2016 EvaBank Midnight Run / Tribune File Photo CULLMAN – Get ready to get your glow on at the 2017 EvaBank Midnight Run on Friday,...

Left to right: Cullman Economic Development Agency Director Dale Greer, Cullman Mayor Woody Jacobs, Scott Stadthagen and Cullman City Council President Garlan Gudger/ Andrew...

Wallace State welding program chair Jim Thompson discusses the NC3 safety procedures his department has instituted. / Wallace State HANCEVILLE - Wallace State Community College’s...

Image credit: TSM at the Rock on Facebook CULLMAN - Earlier this month, a mix-up with the delivery of a large supply of donated food...

Firefighters take time out of a busy training day to welcome young visitors. / W.C. Mann HANCEVILLE - Hanceville Fire Station No. 1 was a...

Brent Donald Sigala, 44 / Cullman County Sheriff’s Office Updated 6-27-17 at 6:40 p.m. CULLMAN COUNTY - Following tips from residents living on County Road 1101,...

Julian Morris, left, talks with County Engineer John Lang after Tuesday morning's commission meeting. / W.C. Mann CULLMAN - County Road 222 has become infamous...

radKIDS instructor and Cullman Police Department DARE Officer Cindy Rohrscheib demonstrates the self-defense stance./ Heather Mann CULLMAN - Something special is going down at the...

Cullman Fire Rescue Chief Edward Reinhardt, Firefighter of the Year Lt. Jason Lamb with his son Nathan, EMT of the Year Chase Cornell, and...

Rep. Corey Harbison, R-Good Hope and Alabama Sec. of State John Merrill are hosting a voter registration drive on Saturday, July 1 from 9...

Rep. Randall Shedd, R-Fairview speaks at an event in Cullman earlier this year. / Andrew Cryer MONTGOMERY - Speaker of the House Mac McCutcheon, R...

Cullman Middle School Principal Lane Hill, with Superintendent Dr. Susan Patterson, accepts an award naming his school a 2017 National Beta School of Merit....

BIRMINGHAM - Eighty-nine outstanding rising high school seniors from 24 counties and 56 high schools in Alabama were selected to attend the 2017 Alabama...

HANCEVILLE - Wallace State Community College has been declared an Official Campus Site for MLD Certification Campus of Alabama, making it the only school...

JOHNSON'S CROSSING - The Cullman County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of a 3-week-old infant in the Johnson's Crossing community. Emergency responders from the...

CPD DARE Officer Cindy Rohrscheib with a participant in last year's radKIDS camp / Tribune File Photo CULLMAN - From June 26-30, the Cullman Police...

TUSCALOOSA - A total of 11,101 students enrolled during the 2017 spring semester at The University of Alabama were named to the Dean's List...

HANCEVILLE - Area educators who want to break out of the rut and get some new ideas for their classrooms will want to take...

Wallace State CDL students Kalob Suttles, left, and Donnie McKay, with instructor Ben Matanane. Suttles and McKay are two recent graduates of the CDL...

The Holly Pond Café is now open for business. / Heather Mann HOLLY POND - After a lengthy renovation, Holly Pond's namesake restaurant has reopened...

Earl Smith, right, speaking with Thierry Ptlantanida, gave his first-hand account of the near-miss nuclear disaster that he helped to divert, in 1961, near...

WaLLi members from Wallace State Community College toured Bryant-Denny stadium and the Paul W. Bryant Museum in Tuscaloosa, with a side trip to Dreamland...

HANCEVILLE - Registration begins Tuesday, June 27 for Summer Mini Term II at Wallace State Community College, with the five-week classes set to start...

Ronnie Regina Millar, 35, left, and Jesse Dean Thomas, 34 / Cullman County Sheriff's Office BERLIN - A man and woman from the Berlin community...

Cullman officially welcomed Escape Cullman to town with a ribbon cutting on Thursday, June 22.  / Photo courtesy of the Cullman Area Chamber of...

Hanceville has added $119,000 in revenue this year from the City’s half-cent sales tax enacted in December.  / W.C. Mann HANCEVILLE - Mayor Kenneth Nail...

Superintendent Shane Barnette, standing, shows board members the interior of one of the new school buses. / Heather Mann CULLMAN - In an effort to...

UPDATED June 22, 7:20 p.m. Cullman City Police Chief Kenny Culpepper says that the scene at Comfort Suites has been cleared. "The call came in...

The West Point Town Council meets on the third Monday of each month at 6 p.m. at West Point Town Hall. / Heather Mann WEST...

Hanceville Mayor Kenneth Nail wants New Orleans’ Confederate monuments. / W.C. Mann HANCEVILLE - White supremacist Dylann Roof’s 2015 murder of nine members of the...

Cullman police responded to a reported attempted robbery this morning at the Chevron on U.S. 278 near I-65. / Rod Wynn CULLMAN - Mental illness...

Henry Dewey Loyd / Cullman County Sheriff's Office CULLMAN - Cullman County Sheriff's Office (CCSO) investigators today arrested Henry Dewey Loyd, 44, of Cullman on...

The Cullman Lioness Club recently awarded $1,000 scholarships to three students for promoting community service and leadership in the Cullman area. Pictured from left to...

Updated 6-22-17 at 9:52 a.m. The new Cullman Milo’s will be located at 1830 Patriots Way SW. / Wendy Sack CULLMAN - Those hankering for a...

Image shows Tropical Storm Cindy’s projected path, as of 7 a.m. Thursday morning. / NOAA National Hurricane Center CULLMAN - The current weather situation in...

Timmy G. Twilley, 49 / Cullman Police Department CULLMAN - A west Cullman neighborhood was startled awake minutes past midnight on Monday, June 19, when...

Marilyn cracks open a Diet Mountain Dew. She said to eat whatever you want to eat and do whatever you want to do./ Wallace...

TUSCALOOSA - The University of Alabama awarded approximately 5,000 degrees during spring commencement May 5-7. Area students who received degrees include: William Collins, of Arab, Bachelor...

HATTIESBURG - The University of Southern Mississippi has released its President’s and Dean’s Lists for the 2017 spring semester. Brooke Allison Duke, of Bremen, made...

Jonathan Franklin Davis, 32, of Cullman / Cullman Police Department CULLMAN - A Cullman man was arrested and charged with trafficking in methamphetamine following a...

Shown, clockwise from top left: Bill Browning, Dr. Will Boyd, Van Caldwell, Mark Johnson, Brian McGee, MB Wain, Patricia Todd and Jason Fisher /...

Edited 6-21-17 The Western Pygmy Rattlesnake is found in Alabama. / JOEL SARTORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTO ARK/National Geographic Creative CULLMAN - First, you may never see...

On Tuesday, April 12, 2016, 100 participants from the 2016 National Arc Welding Conference visited Topre Corporation in Cullman. / Tribune File Photo CULLMAN -...

Lion Ed Henke receives the first Helen Keller Legacy Award. / Andrew Cryer CULLMAN - The Cullman Lions and Lionesses held a joint dinner Monday...

HANCEVILLE - Wallace State Community College English instructor Cindy Smith, left, and President Dr. Vicki Karolewics, right, accept a $200 donation from Roosevelt Oliver...

Josh Hembree and family/ Courtesy of Cullman High School, Kim Hall NEW YORK – Josh Hembree, an AP Calculus teacher at Cullman High School, has...

Norman’s name plate still hangs in front of his empty seat in town hall. / W.C. Mann GARDEN CITY - At Monday evening’s meeting, the...

The new Five Below store in the Cullman Shopping Center will be in the building left vacant by Hancock Fabrics. / MRP CULLMAN - Specialty...

The Cullman High School Class of 1962 had its 55-year reunion on Saturday night at Top of the Town. They were the very first...

BATTLEGROUND - Camp Liberty is now in its second year in Cullman County, after previously being in Marion, Alabama, and is expanding for those...

Members of the CCS yearbook team with their award bannerI / Leeanna Smith CULLMAN - Recently, Cullman Christian School became one of only four schools...

Vila Tyree celebrated her 92nd birthday on June 4, 2017. She has lived most of her life in the Helicon community. Vila was a...

GOOD HOPE - Good Hope's latest city council meeting started off on a positive note with the financial report showing that excise taxes have...

VINEMONT - The Vinemont Town Council kicked off this month’s meeting by reviewing the results of the recent town audit, which showed no problems...

Last week, students got to construct an electronic circuit to power a light. / Patricia Ponder COLONY - The latest Colony Town Council meeting included...

MONTGOMERY - Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces around the country, including the Alabama Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, hosted by the...

Employees of Yutaka Technologies spent Friday cleaning Cullman’s Good Samaritan Health Clinic as part of Honda’s National Week of Service. / Andrew Cryer CULLMAN -...

The stock car that Gene Norman raced in for the final time three weeks ago in Arkadelphia / Johnny Thornton HANCEVILLE - Funeral services were...

Skylar Bolton was badly injured in a car wreck on June 9. / Courtesy of Stephanie Morton CULLMAN - Friends of a local woman who...

CULLMAN - The 6th Annual “Bow-Up Against Breast Cancer” 3-D Archery Tournament took place at the Cullman Community Archery Park on June 10-11. Bowhunters...

Judge Kim Chaney, left, presents Scott Santoro with the Department of Homeland Security a few tokens of appreciation for his work this week in...

Young baseball players flocked to the Cullman High School baseball camp this week for a chance to meet and learn from their favorite Bearcats....

Brigadier Gen. Robert L. Stewart, a former U.S. astronaut, addresses the crowd at the Cullman Elks Lodge Wednesday evening. / Andrew Cryer CULLMAN - The...

The Hanceville High School band is raising money to buy new uniforms. / Hanceville High School Band on Facebook   HANCEVILLE - The Hanceville High School...