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A new addition to Beef Month in recent years is a contest titled "Cattlemen of Beef Month." This friendly competition between county Cattlemen's Associations awards points based on beef promotional efforts hosted during October Beef Month, and it ends with one county earning the crown! In October 2023, the Elmore County Cattlemen's Association went above and beyond to design unique ways to promote beef and the western lifestyle across their home turf. Josie Jones sits down in studio with Chet and Carol Matthews, two of the masterminds behind the promotional efforts, to reflect on how Elmore County's cattlemen activated in order to earn the title "2023 Cattlemen of Beef Month."

Josh and David open with a discussion of the mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine, and whether the U.S. will ever take steps to prevent more shootings like it. In the guest segment, the Alabama Reflector's Brian Lyman joins the podcast to discuss Alabama's GOP backbench congressional delegation and the race for the 2nd Congressional District. We close with an Elmore County mother's battles with a court and the grandparents' rights bill to protect her kid, and this week's Rightwing Nut of the Week. Send us a question: We take a bit of time each week to answer questions from our audience about Alabama politics — or Alabama in general. If you have a question about a politician, a policy, or a trend — really anything — you can shoot us an email at apwproducer@gmail.com or with this form. You can also send it to us on Facebook and Twitter. Or by emailing us a voice recording to our email with your question, and we may play it on air. Either way, make sure you include your name (first name is fine) and the city or county where you live. About APW: APW is a weekly Alabama political podcast hosted by Josh Moon and David Person, two longtime Alabama political journalists. More information is available on our website. Listen anywhere you get your podcasts. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Music credits: Music courtesy of Mr. Smith via the Free Music Archive. Visit Mr. Smith's page here.

Federation communications specialist, Maggie Edwards, sits down with Jeanette Tew, the winner of the annual Heritage Cooking Contest.The 2023 Heritage Cooking Contest was Sept. 7 in Montgomery. This year's theme for the Alabama Farmers Federation Women's Leadership Division competition featured baked cheesecakes, honoring the state's dairy farmers. Elmore County's Jeanette Tew won first place for her Sweet Potato Pecan Baked Cheesecake. In second place was Randolph County's Barbara Norred who created Strawberry Cheesecake. Biscoff Cookie Cheesecake earned Montgomery County's Amy Belcher third place. The three cooks received cash prizes courtesy of the Federation.Be sure to check out Alabama Ag Credit and Alabama Farmers Federation.

A tornado hit Fruitdale about 3 a.m. Wednesday and continued on to the Tibbie area, causing damage. Fruitdale High School was damaged. A metal building on campus was severely damaged and nearby homes as well. There were apparently no injuries but two people in north Montgomery County were killed by the massive storm system that saw tornadoes overnight in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Damage was reported in Wetumpka in Elmore County, in Eutaw, in Greene County, and elsewhere in Alabama. Area schools had dismissed early Tuesday ahead of the storm. Washington County schools remained closed Wednesday. A house fire on...Article Link

Intermediate Showmanship winners in the State Youth Dairy Show during the Alabama National Fair Oct. 13 in Montgomery were, from left, Grace Newton of Clarke County, first place; Lane Ussery of Randolph County, second place; Erin Grimes of Colbert County, third place; Cohen Daniel of Colbert County, fourth place; Michael Kelley of Elmore County, fifth place; and Claire Daniel of Colbert County, sixth place. Intermediate Showmanship is for students ages 13-15. Alabama Farmers Federation and Alfa Insurance sponsored all youth livestock shows at the fair.Article Link

Superintendent Dr. Michele Eller joins Jeremy Law and Michael Adair on The Star Physical Therapy Kickoff Show to get you ready for football at Elmore County.

To write about the waterways of Alabama is to wade through converging streams of fact and fiction, reality and lore, what’s actually true and what’s just a good story.Let me give you an example: a few weeks ago, on an oxbow of the Alabama River just downstream from its confluence, I swam past an abandoned film set. It’s a film set that was built to appear like a town once thriving and then run down. A stretch of houses halfway completed in order to appear halfway to ruin. Facades and porches finished and then weathered; floorboards unlaid and back doors never hung. The director of the film had come across the island while scouting for locations here in Elmore County, Alabama. There wasn’t anything on the island then. Or nothing manmade, anyway. So they built it, weathered it, and left behind a new old town on the island.The movie filmed here was Big Fish — a story of a son’s quest to parse the truth from the fiction of his father’s tales.The town is called Spectre; the town is called Jackson Lake Island.The island is privately owned but it’s open to the public and has become something of a tourist attraction since the film’s release. You can pay $3 and drive across the causeway to wander the film set. But it seems more popular as a recreation area. A place to camp, fish, boat, swim, or feed the herd of wild goats who have taken up residence on the island.On a Sunday in August, that herd of goats descended on every car to park at a campsite. Ours was no exception.We — me and Shaelyn and Ozzie, that eternally game and up-for-anything crew — made for a site on the far side of the island to spend the afternoon. After greeting the goats, I swam out into the channel. The water got deep quickly and I had to plunge earlier than I might have preferred, all things being equal. But you don’t go wild swimming on your own terms, so I plunged and dolphin kicked and came up paddling a good ways out into the channel. Early enough in the day that the water was still crisp, refreshing if not bracing. The water was like tea — a little tannin-y without feeling at all viscous or algal or gross.About halfway into the channel, I noticed what turned out to be a tree branch emerging from the water’s surface but which at first and second glance I’d mistaken for a water snake with its head raised. After a moment’s panic, I swam over to get a closer look.The branch was still connected to the rest of the tree, which must have fallen from the opposite bank. Winded from the swimming and treading, I tried to stand on the trunk but its angle proved too steep, its surface too slick to get any purchase. I slipped, barely avoiding a faceplant on the log. Had anyone been watching from the bank, the Benny Hill theme song might have come to mind.The felled tree was likely lingering damage from the tornado that touched down here last May. Another tree caved in the roof of the campground’s pavilion. The storm spared the film set, though. The feigned ruin still intact; the felled trees now submerged.While I’d been swimming, Shaelyn and Ozzie had been tracking the goats across the island. I swam back in and caught up with them and the three of us headed over to the film set.As we approached, a child was tossing a pair of shoes into the air, trying to snag them on a line stretched between two poles — the makeshift gateway to the fictional place. The boy couldn’t have been older than seven. He was immersed in his task. The shoes on the line, it’s a reference to the film. If you wandered through the forest and wound up in the town, they’d take your shoes and string them on the line. The grass was so soft here, who needed shoes? And if they’re gone, well, you couldn’t leave.Stories are seductive like that. Tell a good enough tale and you might never want to leave it.But this kid, he hadn’t tied his laces together. There was nothing to catch the line. He was just hucking his shoes into the air and watching them fall. After a few throws, though, he’d figured it out and after his successful throw, immediately took off.We did a lap of the one-street ghost town but I hung back a ways. I watched Ozzie and Shaelyn walk through these fictions made real. They peered up at the shoes — all those wishes to stay in the enchanted town — then crane their necks around the doorways of the abandoned homes. I was being visited by a memory I don’t think I’d ever before recollected. I’d been relying on Shaelyn’s memory of the film until it hit me: I’d seen this movie too. On a date; we’d rented it from Blockbuster. That was back in 2005, when Alabama existed in my mind hardly at all, what I did know came mostly from fictions, exaggerations. And now Blockbuster has long since closed and my life has taken shape here — a husband, a father, an itinerant documentarian — and less than an hour from this fictional world. Jackson Lake Island is just outside Millbrook. Elmore County. From there we headed for the county seat, Wetumpka. Wetumpka’s got a quaint little downtown, bordered on one side by the Coosa River, the other by a state highway that runs along a ridge. Halfway up that ridge stands an imposing white Victorian home, turreted and gabled.That house appears in the film, too. It’s the father’s home. In the driveway are branded signs letting you know that this is the house you’ve come to see but also informing you that you can’t park there.That afternoon on our way out to the next swimming spot, we drove by to catch a glimpse of the house. Halfway up the hill, I worried our little hatchback might not manage. It was a little hair-raising but the car prevailed.That ridge on which the Victorian home stands, that’s the result of what’s now called the Wetumpka Crater. Or the Wetumpka impact crater, if you want to get technical about it, which apparently not everyone does. The crater’s more than four miles in diameter, the impact dating back almost one hundred million years ago — way before Blockbuster. The horseshoe shape of the crater’s perimeter indicates to geologists that the asteroid hit at an oblique angle. Around the time that geologists were confirming the dating of the crater, the Auburn Astronomical society toured the crater and in their dispatch described the asteroid  impact as “Alabama's greatest natural disaster in the last 81.5 million years.” It’s massive, as far as craters go. And internationally recognized, as important old craters are.But when I mentioned the crater to a biology professor at Auburn University, he laughed. “That crater’s more famous outside the state than in,” he said. Point being that it’s sometimes hard to excite people about a crater from 81 million years ago if they only count the earth’s years in the thousands.Through the lowest point in that crater runs the Coosa River and along a patch of shoals just north of town sits Corn Creek Park. We parked and clambered down the bank to a sandy beach.We arrived at the river in the late afternoon, stayed til early evening. People were tubing, coming through on kayaks and canoes, their friends waiting on the shoreline with beers. The sun was setting, the water babbling. Bouquets of gloriously accented English and Spanish bloomed into the night and carried over the water.People will ask why you love Alabama and it’s clear they’ve never imagined Corn Creek Park at dusk.It’s lovely here. The place makes it easy to put out of mind what you see as you come into the park. You turn left off the state highway. To your right when you turn is one of the four state prisons in the county. More people are imprisoned here in Elmore County than in any other county in the state. Which means that, per capita, more people are imprisoned in Elmore County than in nearly any other county in the country. I can keep zooming out but I think you get the point.It got late. As we started packing up, another family with a child about Ozzie’s age arrived. We chatted about how much our children loved to swim, about how nice it was that our children loved to swim. I wondered about the stories we’d hand down to our children about this place, about their place in it. Foolish to think we’d have any great amount of control of what happens in their stories but we had chosen to set them here. It will be home for Ozzie in a way it never will for me.Even so, when I tell about Alabama, and especially when I tell Ozzie about Alabama, I want to emphasize the beauty, the love, the strangeness to be found here. But like all stories, that one is full of half-truths and exaggerations and convenient evasions — like the story just across the street, one of barbed wire, desperation and neglect, the vicious and punitive power wielded here, often against the most vulnerable.Why do you love Alabama? Easier to tell it like Big Fish. At the end, the father — the teller of all those tall tales — is terminally ill, bedridden. But he won’t abide dying in the ICU. So they carry him out and down to the banks of the river, where he turns into a catfish and swims off into the shoals of the Coosa River.It’s a good story. But on the walk back up the river bank after setting him in the water, you’ve got to pass an awful lot of barbed wire.. This is a public episode. 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A University of Idaho Extension weed specialist is investigating the recent discovery in an Elmore County sugar beet field of a weed.

A communications technician with the Alabama Forestry Commission died Wednesday afternoon, July 6 in an accident in Washington County. Brett Savage, 36, a resident of Deatsville, in Elmore County, was helping a crew remove a communications tower in southwest Washington County off of U.S. Highway 45 and not far from the Mobile County line when it unexpectedly fell, killing him instantly, according to a news release from AFC. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and loved ones of Brett,” said State Forester Rick Oates. “All of us at the Alabama Forestry are terribly saddened by his loss.”...Article Link

Elmore County is one of Idaho's most important counties when it comes to agriculture.

Clydie Mae Johnston Dement, 90, a homemaker of Thomasville died May 1, 2022 at her home. She was born March 7, 1932 in Elmore County, Ala. to Owen Clyde and Tossie Mae Johnston. She was a member of Grove Hill Methodist Protestant Church. She is survived by her two sons, Calvin (Pat) Dement and Glenn (Doris) Dement; two daughters, Ann (Wayne) Morgan and Peggy (Howard) Blevins; two brothers, Bobby Johnston and Marvin Johnston; two sisters, Betty Jo Howell and Vermel Timberlake; 12 grandchildren; 13 greatgrandchildren; and four great-great grandchildren. The service was Wednesday, May 4 at 11 a.m. at O'Bryant...Article Link

The Clarke County High School Bulldogs opened the season by splitting a double-dipper on the road. The Bulldogs, playing at Wetumpka in Elmore County, beat Alabama Christian of Montgomery 11-2 in game two of the series. “If we have hopes of going deep in the playoffs, we have to be able to compete better against quality teams like these,” Head Coach Wendell Jackson said. “It was like Dr. Jeykell and Mr. Hyde. We bounced back in game two and didn't make any errors, pitched better and had better plate appearances.” Alex Steadham had three hits with two doubles and three...Article Link

In this episode, I interview three title holders all pursuing their passion for their platforms while alsojuggling the demands of home and work. Despite your preconceptions, the pageant world has a lot toteach each of us –about empowering and edifying one another, bringing awareness and action to causesand issues that women, mothers and female business owners care deeply about, and the power of unityin the midst of division. These women are all –to put it bluntly—badass.  And they found thatconfidence, and that investment in themselves in the unlikely place of pageantry. From butt glue tosunless tanner, these women prove that no matter how long you've been putting yourself on the backburner or how many hats you wear in a day, you can still reinvent yourself and you can still rock thoseheels in the back of your closet. It should come as no surprise that these sash sisters are as dedicatedand committed to their platforms as they are to their businesses and their families –from being thechange you wish to see, to investing in our youth to ensure their future (and ours), to chasing dreamswhether that looks like securing grant funding or giving hope to others through representation. Listen to our panel interview, of stepping out in heels and a sash, to do the important work of making adifference in the world, one community and stage at a time. In a culture consumed with the degradationand trolling of one another, find inspiration in the community of pageantry and the genuine connectionsand relationships formed when women support one another on stage and behind the scenes. Beautifuland badass, Mrs. Treasure Valley, Mrs. Elmore County and Mrs. Meridian will have you confronting yourown pageant paradigms and leave you feeling inspired to champion these women and their endeavorsalongside your own. Tune in and open your mind to the power of pageants: the women who adjust oneanother's crowns.

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In episode 77 of the Fishing Guide Podcast our host Brad Wiegmann interviews Gerald Overstreet Jr. and Steve Brown B’n’M Poles Crappie Pros talk about crappie fishing in Elmore County, crappie fishing tips, LiveScope fishing, Overstreet’s Guide Service and fishing the Alabama River. Tackle Time features PICO Lures and Smith’s Consumer Products Bait Breaker.

The COVID-19 case rate has dropped in nearly every part of the state, with all of Idaho’s 44 counties now boasting a 7-day rolling average case rate below 20 cases per one hundred thousand people. Last week, 4.3 percent of COVID tests performed in Idaho came back positive. That’s the lowest positivity rate Idaho has seen since June. But variants continue to spread, and the UK variant continues to be the most prevalent. This week, the first instance of the so-called Brazil variant was found in an Elmore County patient. In the last week, Idaho surpassed the one million mark for COVID vaccine doses administered. As of Friday, 603,000 Idahoans had received at least one dose of the vaccine, and 486,000 are fully vaccinated. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare has lifted the requirement that vaccine recipients either live or work in the state to get a vaccine here.

Wetumpka, is a city located in Elmore County, Alabama, and its called "The City of Natural Beauty" by some of the locals, like myself. This city is home to Alabama's greatest natural disaster. A meteorite, estimated to be 1,000 feet wide, hit the area about 83 million years ago. Creating a 5 mile wide impact crater, roughly 175,000 times greater than the nuclear explosion in Hiroshima in 1945, that blasted into the bedrock of this so called star wound. [FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA & MORE]TWITTER: www.twitter.com/SouthernOddPodINSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/SouthernOddPodJARED'S TWITTER: www.twitter.com/jared_ordisJARED'S INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/jared.ordisORDIS STUDIOS PODCAST NETWORK & WEBSITE: www.ordisstudios.com[ADDITONAL INFORMATION]Questions or Business Inquiry, Email Us @ ordisstudios@gmail.comResearched was used for this episode of Southern Oddities, and we couldn't have made it possible without the journalism and dedication from these awesome sources of information: Wetumpka Impact Crater Commission [Documents] WSFA [Hiking with Hailey Wetumpka Impact Crater] Wikipedia [Wetumpka, Alabama] Wikipedia [Wetumpka Crater]"Southern Oddities" is created & produced by Jared Ordis, an Ordis Studios production. This show is part of the Ordis Studios Network Copyright © 2021 by Ordis Studioswww.ordisstudios.com

Bill Franklin has been serving Central Alabama as Elmore County Sheriff's Office Sheriff for the last THREE DECADES. During that time, he's seen things most people only see on television. We are grateful to have had Caleb Brooks sit down and discuss an array of subjects with Mr. Franklin. Now in his 30th year as Elmore County Sheriff, Franklin has seen the world of law enforcement change in a myriad of ways. The two also discuss how the perception of law enforcement has changed and what the department does to try to combat negative feelings toward the police. Listen in to his story now!

LiLG talks with Richie Beyer, Chief Engineer and Operations Officer (CEOO) for Elmore County, AL. The job description of a county engineer is changing. There is no more just "roads and bridges". Today, an engineer is faced with budget woes, rapid technology advancements, and aging infrastructure. LiLG will help you prepare for the future.

It's time to wrap up the regular season as Caleb and Lizi quickly discuss the big coaching news out of Dadeville last week (5:48) before diving into the Game of the Week between Tallassee and Elmore County (9:00). The co-hosts also take a deep dive into Benjamin Russell's senior night game against Valley (17:32) before making all of their picks for the rest of the area (25:44).

Handley Tigers vs Elmore County Panthers by Wes Kinsey

It's rivalry week in Elmore County as Caleb and Lizi discuss Friday's big showdown between Stanhope Elmore and Wetumpka (11:53). The co-hosts also quickly breakdown the action in Week 5 (5:01) before making all of the picks (26:15) for this week to wrap up the episode.

Podcast listener tips led us to an infamous Elmore County location.  Our searches here were filled with surprises.

Susan and Evan aren't the only missing people from Elmore County.  Starr Mulder has been missing since June 11, 2016.  Hear the never released before details the investigator assigned to her case shared with me and I'll explain the odd connection I noticed to Susan and Evan.  Also, you'll hear about a new development in the search for Susan and Evan.

The Sports Shop with Reese & K-Mac, heard weekday mornings from 6-9 on Buzz Sports Radio. It's "Throwback Thursday" as Reese, K-Mac, Jasmyn and actress/model Yesse Rodriguez take it back to 1984 for the bumper music. The crew also discusses NC Central bowing out of the NCAA First Four for the third straight season after falling last night to North Dakota State. The crew also celebrates the first full day of action of the NCAA Tournament that begins this afternoon and gives their Final Four picks. Reese also reflects on his visit to his home state of Alabama and his efforts to help aid in the recovery from tornadoes that hit Elmore County.

Elmore County has applied to appropriate water from the Anderson Ranch Reservoir which supplies a substantial portion of Ada County's water. This could set a precedent for water rights and sharing and we look at this request from Elmore County and parse out its impact on the Treasure Valley.

Facing adversity, the Handley Tiger offense rallies to go up late in the game and it's bend but don't break defense holds on to get a key region win over Elmore County.

Tim Altork speaks with Coach Larry Strain about tonight's important Region game against Elmore County and more!

Last year, Mountain Home Air Force Base sent a shipment of hazardous waste to a municipal landfill outside of Boise. The material is the leftovers of a chemical-resistant coating used on buildings that contains a substance linked to cancer. Idaho Matters finds out what was dumped, the threat from the substance and remediation efforts.

On today’s Live Morning Drive, Doug discusses some topics that have been in the headlines, such as a case of the Plague in Elmore County, as well as how the cost of housing in the Treasure Valley and Idaho, in general, has risen greatly in the past few years.Read More →

In this episode, Matt speaks with Brad Stokes, University of Idaho, Elmore County, Extension Educator about managing flies, mosquitos, and other biting insects that bother us and our livestock.While we may never be able to eliminate biting insects complete or completely prevent the diseases they can carry, we can take steps to minimize exposure.

It’s December in Elmore County, and the weather is way too delightful. Some fruit trees are budding, and one of our poor LSU Blacks has produced a futile December fig. We may need to approach the seasons differently in response to climate change

copyright 2007 Hal Rowberry. All rights reserved. I played banjo on this session job, and really like the tune. Lots of fun to listen to! My part was mostly rhythm, but I got a few licks in, here and there. You can hear the banjo mostly on the right side of the mix. At the end of the song, there's a reference to: "dancin' to Pinto, at the Saddle Sore Saloon' The Saddle Sore is a famous honky-tonk just over the hill from Jackson Hole, on the Idaho side, in a tiny town called Swan Valley. All the rich folks and movied stars who live in Jackson hit the Saddle Soar, where nobody pays any attention to them. Pinto Bennet, The King of Elmore County, played there often, with his band, The Motel Cowboys. He's the best Country singer/songwriter I know. Pinto became a pretty big deal in the British Isles... I heard he was well known over there.

copyright 2007 Hal Rowberry. All rights reserved. I played banjo on this session job, and really like the tune. Lots of fun to listen to! My part was mostly rhythm, but I got a few licks in, here and there. You can hear the banjo mostly on the right side of the mix. At the end of the song, there's a reference to: "dancin' to Pinto, at the Saddle Sore Saloon' The Saddle Sore is a famous honky-tonk just over the hill from Jackson Hole, on the Idaho side, in a tiny town called Swan Valley. All the rich folks and movied stars who live in Jackson hit the Saddle Soar, where nobody pays any attention to them. Pinto Bennet, The King of Elmore County, played there often, with his band, The Motel Cowboys. He's the best Country singer/songwriter I know. Pinto became a pretty big deal in the British Isles... I heard he was well known over there.