Administrators of a trust fund established to preserve historic Black churches in the United States have revealed the first 35 houses of worship that will receive financial grants totaling $4 million. The list of grantees includes 16th Street Baptist Church Inc. in Birmingham, Alabama, where…
On Wednesday, Jan. 18, Medical Center Barbour presented the 2022 B.A.S.S. and Daisy Foundation Awards to the winners. JenniAnne Williams, RN, received the Daisy Foundation Award, and Allen Finlayson, pharmacist, received the B.A.S.S. Award. Amanda Chapman, ER Registration, received the Honor…
When I look through the layers of my life, it’s like excavating an historical site.
It was time! We had driven my old SUV for 12 years and for 215,000 miles. We’ve been together for so long, and traveled together so far, I couldn’t bear to let her go…so I didn’t! I did, however, buy a new one.
The annual Selma celebration that commemorates the fight for voting rights will go forward in March despite the tornado damage to the city. Organizers said this week the Bridge Crossing Jubilee will take place from March 2 to March 5. Organizers said the event and the focus it brings to Selm…
January is School Board Recognition Month, and Eufaula City Schools celebrates its board members for their dedication and commitment to the school system and its students.
Alabama has withdrawn from a 32-state voter registration partnership. New Secretary of State Wes Allen sent a letter Tuesday withdrawing from the Electronic Registration Information Center, a non-profit grouping of 32 states and the District of Columbia. Allen cited concerns over privacy, sa…
Records show the rate of state inmates being granted parole in Alabama has plummeted to a new low. The three-member board granted parole to 409 inmates and turned down 3,593 others in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. The board last week denied parole to a 71-year-old woman who is confine…
If I saw someone threatening your life, I’d want to do whatever was necessary to fight for your right to live. I believe you’d do the same for me. We’d fight as if we were defending our own lives – because the fight to live is innately placed in us.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has been sworn in for her second full term as governor. Ivey took the oath of office Monday on the steps of the Alabama Capitol and called the state a place where “common sense and opportunity abounds” in uncertain national times. In a wide-ranging speech, the 78-year-o…
I’ve been told I overthink things. But, I can’t help wondering what’s around the bend. For me, going around the bend can be literal; then again, maybe not.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has announced new rules for prison “good time” incentives that allow some inmates to get out early for good behavior. Ivey signed an executive order Monday that she says provides “clear rules” for prison staff and inmates on how much good time credit will be lost for di…
Proverbs 2:3-4 (ESV) commands us to “call out for insight and raise [our] voice for understanding,” and “seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasure.” Yet few of us do.
During a deadly storm system that spawned tornadoes across parts of the U.S. South, Zakiya Sankara-Jabar’s cellphone buzzed relentlessly. Text messages and calls from loved ones in Alabama, many of them hysterical, provided her with devastating updates. In Selma, family members’ homes were d…
An Alabama mechanic took refuge in a shipping container as a tornado decimated his shop and killed two neighbors. A woman hid in a bathtub with her 2-year-old son, telling her mother by phone: “If the house is messed up I’ll be in the tub area.” The harrowing stories of survivors of Thursday…
The year 2023 is here. The year is young and still new. To hear the date spoken has a strange sound to it, but that won’t last long. Within a few weeks, we’ll get used to hearing the new date, and within a few months, we won’t even think twice about.
A few years back when my mother was in the hospital, I rushed to the nurse’s station and breathlessly instructed a nurse to check the heart monitor. Turned out the woman wasn’t a nurse at all — she was the cardiologist. The problem is, it’s hard to tell these days.
Do any of these scenarios describe you or your day?
Clayton resident Jacqueline S. Davis will be honored during an upcoming awards ceremony set for 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan.14, 2023, via Zoom and Facebook live. Davis will receive the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Spirit of Service Award for her outstanding service to the citizens of Barbour County.
U.S. Sen. Katie Britt was sworn into office Tuesday, becoming the youngest Republican woman to serve in the U.S. Senate. Britt, 40, took the oath of office along with other senators who were elected in November. She replaced longtime Sen. Richard Shelby, 88, who announced his retirement afte…
Many Barbour countians may remember Georgia M. Pittman as a mild-mannered teacher’s aide with the Barbour County School District, but her work within the community extends beyond helping students in the classroom. She has served the citizen of Barbour County for decades, which includes some …
The unemployment rate fell from 3.6% to 3.5%, matching a 53-year low, the Labor Department said Friday.
Well, believe it or not, another year has come and gone. To me, each one seems to be passing by at a rapid pace now.
This is the perfect time to start a “year list” — a record of all the birds you see during 2023.
Are you glad 2022 is over? Do you cringe every time you recall the poor choices you made, even though you’ve genuinely repented of those choices?
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