Inspection at landfill delays county trash pickup this week
Perry County Commission Chairman Albert Turner announced this week that an inspection at Arrowhead Landfill in Uniontown meant county garbage pickup would be delayed by a day this week. The Wednesday route will be picked up on Thursday, and the Thursday route on Friday.
Free prostate cancer screening is Oct. 1 in Greensboro
On Saturday, October 1, 2022, the Urology Health Foundation will hold a free prostate cancer screening for men 40 years of age and older from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. at the Hale County Health Department on 670 Hall Street in Greensboro, Alabama. Face masks will be required. No appointments are needed. Prostate cancer is... Read More
County accepts $700k bid on industrial access road project, will begin soon
Perry County has accepted a bid of almost $700,000.00 to complete work on the industrial access road project connecting TekPak to Alabama Highway 5. Commissioners voted to move forward on the project at their most recent meeting, Tuesday night, Sept. 13. At that meeting, County Engineer Deandre Kimbrough said there had been three bidders on... Read More
Legal Notices Week of September 22, 2022
Legal NoticeIN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF HALE COUNTY, ALABAMA Case No.: CV-2022-900019 ANNE C. McKINNEY, Plaintiff, vs. DETARION DORNELL BUGGS, Defendants. NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLICATION TO DETARION DORNELL BUGGS Detarion Dornell Buggs, whose whereabouts are unknown, must answer Anne C. McKinney’s Complaint for personal injuries filed on March 9, 2022, or thereafter, a judgment... Read More
Black Warrior Riverkeeper sues Warrior Met Coal for alleged pollution
Black Warrior Riverkeeper has sued Warrior Met Coal in federal court for discharging polluted wastewater from Mine No. 7 at locations that have not been permitted. The unpermitted discharges from Mine No. 7’s Slurry Impoundment No. 14 flow into an unnamed tributary that eventually feeds into Texas Creek, a tributary of Davis Creek, which flows... Read More
Harriet Cobbs Smith
Harriet Cobbs Smith, 90 formerly of Greensboro, AL went to her eternal home on September 14, 2022. She was born on July 23, 1932 in Tuscaloosa, AL to Annie Bullard and Nicholas Hamner Cobbs. She was an art teacher for the Tuscaloosa City School system. She was preceded in death by her parents; and her... Read More
Southern Academy’s SGA Officers for the 2022-23 school
Southern Academy’s SGA Officers for the 2022-23 school year are: Laura Kyser, Hannah Whaley, Madeline Sealy, Haylee Rowley, Bryant Taylor, Campbell Webb and Hardy McMillan. The officers attended the Alabama Independent Schools Association State SGA Convention on Wednesday, Sept. 14. In a few weeks the SGA will begin fundraising for a charitable project benefitting Pilots... Read More
Rachel Massengale
Rachel T. Massengale, 103 of Greensboro, AL went to her eternal home on September 18, 2022. She was born on October 3, 1918 in Hale County, AL to Mary Snipes and Joseph Townsend. She worked as a seamstress at Vanity Fair. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, J.T. Massengale; her daughter,... Read More
Commission ties up on balancing budget, tables vote pending more information
Perry County Commission moved one step closer towards closing the books on the 2021-2022 fiscal year at its first meeting of the month, held Tuesday night, Sept. 13. Commission Chairman Albert Turner said the county was “in better shape than we have been in years.” Turner asked commissioners to vote to amend the budget to... Read More
Marion Police officer resigns in wake of questions about wreck
Report: off-duty officer’s MPD cruiser was backed into while parked at a Waffle House in Birmingham On Tuesday night, Marion City Council’s agenda for its regular meeting included an item entitled “police incident report.” “I know we’ve had some discussion about the vehicles being parked,” said Mayor Dexter Hinton, by way of introducing the topic... Read More