VIDEO: Natural gas main near Uniontown explodes on Sunday, flames visible for miles
A natural gas main north of Uniontown exploded this afternoon. The incident happened near Woodlawn Church Road at around 4:15 on Sunday.... Read More
Fight invasive cogongrass on your property
by: Mary Leigh Oliver AUBURN UNIVERSITY, Ala. – Cogongrass continues to creep its way throughout the Southeast. There is an increasing prevalence... Read More
Hatch students, teachers celebrate 100th day of school
Teachers and students at Robert C. Hatch High School celebrated the 100th day of school recently. Students did research and then created... Read More
ADPH: County Health Departments don’t have free masks
Ed. Note: The Alabama Dept. of Public Health released the following statement this week regarding the apparent misconception that county health departments... Read More
Faunsdale awarded $300k grant for downtown improvements
The Town of Faunsdale in Marengo County has been awarded a first-ever $300,000 Community Development Block Grant by Governor Kay Ivey and... Read More
Jones, Alabama’s new poet laureate, has Black Belt roots
by: Casey Roberts Ashley M. Jones, of Birmingham, has been named poet laureate of Alabama. Poet laureate is an unpaid, four-year position... Read More
Making History: Women work to get their Black Belt hometown to fully vaccinated
by: Casey Roberts Dorothy Oliver and Drucilla Russ-Jackson made history this past year in their community of Panola, Alabama, when they successfully... Read More
Alumnae organization works to keep Judson items together at latest sale
Though there was little warning beforehand, Judson College let alumnae know last week that a sale of antiques from the campus would... Read More
Archives from the Negro Leader are a window into 1910s African-American life in the Black Belt
The Negro Leader, founded Oct. 1909 in Uniontown, wasn’t the first African-American owned publication in the Black Belt, or even in Perry... Read More