Lake Martin Magazine

Kowaliga Restaurant last week opened to resounding reviews of its mouth-watering menu offerings, completely renovated interior and a new Indian carved by local artist Corey Worden.

The new facilities at Children’s Harbor will be ready for a Magic Moments Memorial Day weekend camp.

Life on Lake Martin is full of beautiful surprises.Several months ago, Joe and Geneva Todd of Dadeville received an unexpected phone call.

While March 23 was a brisk, cloudy day with a constant threat of unpleasant weather, it was the perfect setting for a run through Russell Crossroads.

Shannon Dost and her husband Don last summer captured the essence of Lake Martin on the classic American T-shirt when they launched a design business called The Lake Affect.

Lorin Holcombe last month claimed the crown of Miss Alabama Teen USA, a part of the Miss Universe pageant circuit.

On March 20, 1945, a U.S. Air Force twin-engine B-25 bomber on a combat training mission flew out of Washington D.C. headed for Fort Worth, Texas. Unfortunately, the plane flew into a storm mid-flight and crashed into Lake Martin.

Lake Martin’s winter pool will officially be three feet higher this year. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued an order on Nov. 23 approving Alabama Power Company’s request for a drought-based temporary amendment for the Martin Project.

The northern cardinal, the brown thrasher, the tufted titmouse, the indigo bunting, the red-bellied woodpecker and the great blue heron. These are just a few of the birds that can be found on the new Piedmont Plateau Birding Trail.

For the last 20 years, the Alabama Water Watch Program has worked across the state to train and engage individuals and groups to become credible and informed watchdogs, advocates and educators on behalf of Alabama’s bays, lakes, rivers and streams. But due to recent cuts in the federal budget, the Alabama Water Watch Program recently lost a significant source of funding: a grant through ADEM. This loss of funding has citizens across the state alarmed over the future of the Alabama Water Watch Program.