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12th annual Cahaba River Fry-Down will be virtual

Cahaba River Society prioritizes community safety for catfish-cooking competition & festival The Cahaba River Society will host its 12th annual Cahaba River Fry-Down Catfish Cookoff and Festival virtually in 2021. While the nonprofit hoped to...

ForestHER: Forest Management Plans

The Alabama Extension ForestHER online series was created with women landowners in mind. These webinars are an opportunity for women landowners to learn about forest management topics. You do not have to own a...

Alabama Extension Part of National COVID Vaccine Education Effort

by Maggie Lawrence AUBURN UNIVERSITY, Ala. – Extension at Alabama A&M and Auburn universities has joined land-grant institutions across the nation to strengthen immunization education. Alabama Extension is partnering with the Extension Foundation, the United...

Cahaba Riverkeeper Asks For Your Help With Photos

Our friends at Cahaba Riverkeeper have asked us for your help in responding to ADEM asking for improvements in water quality standards for our Cahaba River. You can help by offering photos of yourself...

Emergency Broadcast System Test Announced

At approximately 11 a.m. this morning NPR posted a news article announcing a national test of the Emergency Broadcast System. The article contains the following details: The loud noises you may hear blasting from your...
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Frustrated Parents Show Up For Bibb Board of Education Meeting

A large crowd of seemingly frustrated parents showed up for the regularly scheduled Bibb County Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, August 10. Most appeared because of last week's called board meeting when a...

Rapid Increase In Hospitalizations Alarm State Officials

From Alabama Daily News: Alabama is racing toward virus numbers it last saw at the peak of the pandemic, with more than 2,100 COVID-19 patients in state hospitals Monday and only 6% of intensive...

Why Only Citizens Should Vote

GUEST EDITORIAL By: Alabama Secretary of State John H. Merrill A growing number of left-leaning political activists and thinkers are proposing that Democrats should legalize non-citizen voting in a purely political power grab. In America, voting...

Bibb School Year Begins With Public Health Policy Debate Looming

On Thursday August 5 the Bibb County Board of Education adopted a required mask policy for students, teachers, and all personnel, for the 2021-22 school year in a special called meeting. We printed the...