Flatwoods Elementary News Today

A weekday synopsis of West Alabama news, sports and weather.

More than 480 Virginia schools are slated to receive $12 million in school security equipment grants. That announcement came from the Virginia Department of Edu

A message from the superintendent cites an increase in COVID-19 cases, along with other illnesses, and a lack of available substitutes.

So we finally have two statewide tickets — Terry McAuliffe for governor for the Democrats and Glenn Youngkin for the Republicans.

We are here today to point out what they’re not saying. This week, two of the five Democratic candidates announced their plans on two subjects near and dear to our hearts: Jennifer Carroll Foy announced her broadband plan and Jennifer McClellan announced her school plan — which also included some portions on broadband because many of these issues are interconnected. Earlier, former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who is attempting a comeback, laid out his own schools plan. Now, as Paul Harvey l...

And so it’s come to this: House Democrats care so little about the poorest localities in the state that they won’t even vote on two measures intended to fix up

We choose our words carefully, so when we use a strong one, we mean it. Today we shall use a strong one. Perhaps several strong ones.

After the planet Uranus was discovered in 1781, astronomers realized that its orbit could only be explained if there was another, yet unseen, planet somewhere beyond it. Based on that, the great French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier publicly predicted the existence — and location — of the planet we now know as Neptune, making it the first planet predicted before it was ever seen. In that same vein, today we predict the emergence of a type of politician we have yet to see — one t...

Here’s something you won’t see us say very often: Virginia should be more like Maryland.