By Melanie Patterson

The North Jefferson News



The following events were reported in The North Jefferson News during this week in 2004, 1999, 1989 and 1979.



Five years ago

• The City of Gardendale is poised to expand by 937 acres after the Gardendale Planning and Zoning Commission approved a request to annex property in unincorporated Jefferson County between Gardendale and Fultondale. The city council still must approve the request, but Mayor Kenny Clemons does not think there will be opposition.

• Warrior will soon have the services of a new fire station after a long battle to get the facility off the ground. The two-bay station should be operational by Feb. 1, according to Warrior Mayor Jerry Cochran.



10 years ago

• Dr. Doug Alford opened his practice in the Norwood Clinic in Fultondale. A 1986 graduate of Fultondale High School, Alford said it was his dream to move back to his hometown to practice medicine.

• Within a few months, the sidewalk at the corner of Mt. Olive Road and Fieldstown Road will extend to Wal-Mart. Then it will wrap 110 feet down Odum Road to the first entrance of the Northgate Village Plaza.



20 years ago

• Two people died and a third was injured when a small plane traveling from Mississippi to Florida crashed in a wooded area near Corner.

• The Gardendale City Council has purchased land for the city’s new library for $50,000 from Roy Bragg. Library Director Martha Moore is working on fund-raising efforts to furnish the interior of the new facility.



30 years ago

• Fultondale Police are looking for a South Carolina resident in connection with an armed robbery which occurred at the JoVonn Inn last week, according to Fultondale Police Chief William J. Finn. The robber asked the male employee to go look at something at the back door. He then pulled a blue steel automatic and made the employee go into the restroom, where he taped the worker’s hands to a rail before cleaning out the cash register.