Carole Brand has been a staff writer with The Enterprise Ledger since 2004.
She has worked in the journalism field since 1979 and received numerous awards from the Alabama Press Association, including a 2010 first place award for Best News Feature Story.
Carole has been the recipient of the Troy University Journalism Alumni Award for Journalists in Community Service and the Troy University Alumni Award in Advertising.
She enjoys hard news reporting as well as feature writing for the newspaper.
When Carole is not working, she is busy taking care of her two canine children, Shelby and Hoppi.
Friday, April 27, teams, cancer survivors and the public will gather to celebrate the 20th year anniversary of the Coffee County Relay for Life, which has raised more than $3 million for cancer research for the American Cancer Society.
Over the past three years, The Southeast Alabama Gas District has given back almost $500,000 to local public schools who are also SEAGD customers.
The Enterprise City Schools Board of Education approved a rezoning measure Tuesday night for the six elementary schools in the city.
Rucker Boulevard Elementary School recently hosted a Math-A-Thon for students.
"The Sound of Music" is being presented by the Enterprise State Community College Players, under the direction of Eric Lidh.
“The Sound of Music,” a classic Rogers and Hammerstein musical, will be performed by the ESCC Entertainers Friday, April 6, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, April 7, at 2 and 7 p.m.
The annual Piney Woods Arts Festival this weekend at Enterprise State Community College will feature entertainment, food, unique arts and crafts, a Civil War display and the Weevil City Cruisers Car Show.
When Brendan Franco first walked into his junior high school on Thursday morning, he walked in with a smile as hundreds of Coppinville Junior High School students, faculty, and guests greeted him with a surprise birthday party celebration.
Jake, a chocolate Labrador retriever, was shot at close range in the side of the mouth recently by an unknown assailant with a handgun.
Local doctors who have seen the effects of colon cancer on patients said this week that numbers from the Center for Disease Control show the incidence and mortality of colon cancer has dropped as colonoscopy rates have increased.
Super Tuesday voting in Coffee County reportedly heavy this morning.
For first-time voters, the sample ballots for the primary can be confusing, so before the March 13 primary vote, the Enterprise High School Student Government Association and sponsors, teachers Lee Bradley and Kay Cuzio, invited candidates and ballot assistants to a forum this week.
Eric Church was named Friday as an addition to the 2012 BamaJam headliners, which include Tim McGraw, Kid Rock, and the Zac Brown Band.
For New Brockton Elementary School Principal Dale Kelley, 36 years has been a good journey.
Former Kinston police chief Harold Frost pleaded guilty in court late Thursday evening to two counts of sexual abuse to a child under 12 years of age.
The largest trial in Alabama history may have originated over a piece of Houston County land, but at the center of the corruption trial was Enterprise’s Ronnie Gilley.
The Coffee County Relay for Life will be celebrating its 20th anniversary Friday, April 27 at the annual luminaria ceremony at 9 p.m. on the Enterprise State Community College track.
The Troy University Symphony Band performs in Enterprise for the first time Friday evening at the Enterprise High School Performing Arts.
Twelve-year-old Josh Sivacek may have a small frame, limited movement in his hands and feet, and muscular abnormalities, but his heart of courage, his strength of character and his ability to encourage others, is who Josh really is.
Families of the eight Enterprise students and one Enterprise resident who died in the March 1, 2007 tornado, met at 1:13 p.m. Thursday at the Memorial site.
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