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Sips At Sunset Garden Party To Kick Off Black Business Month
The Alabama Collective and Access Montgomery are teaming up to host ‘Party For a Cause: Sips at Sunset Garden Party’. The event will take place on Saturday, August 3rd from 5:00 - 9:00 p.m. in the Sculpture Garden at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. The fundraiser kicks...
Alabama has one of ‘World’s Greatest Places 2024’
Montgomery Whitewater, an adventure park that specializes in rafting and kayaking, has been in operation for just one year. But the 120-acre park in Alabama already is getting national attention. Time magazine included Montgomery Whitewater in a recent list of the “World’s Greatest Places 2024.” The list, published on Thursday,...
Planning Commission delays The Cottages at Prattville yet again
The Prattville Planning Commission heard from Forge Residential Partners at Barrett-Simpson Inc. again with two separate public hearings, where business regarding The Cottages at Prattville was postponed until next month’s Planning Commission meeting. The commission voted first on the preliminary Platt and then the Planned Unit Development or PUD...
Montgomery man convicted of capital murder in beating death of his grandmother
A Montgomery man has been convicted of capital murder in the 2019 bludgeoning death of his grandmother. John Michael Perryman was convicted of capital murder after a weeklong trial before Circuit Judge James Anderson, said District Attorney Daryl Bailey. Perryman was convicted in the “brutal beating death” of Evelyn Perryman, his grandmother, Bailey said. ...
Woman found dead Wednesday in Montgomery, police say
Montgomery police are conducting a death investigation following the shooting of a local woman. Police and fire medics went to the 200 block of Eastdale Road South about 8:35 p.m. Wednesday on a report of a person shot, said Maj. Saba Coleman, spokeswoman for the Montgomery Police Department. They found Kinah Stokes, 28, of Montgomery who had been shot. She was taken to a local hospital, where she died. ...
Child relinquishments putting strain on Alabama’s child welfare system
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Leaders at the Alabama Department of Human Resources shared data Thursday during a meeting in Montgomery that painted a picture of significant progress for the state’s child welfare system, which ADHR primarily manages. The one exception, however, was the growing strain put on DHR from...
Alabama FC South to host GCPL championship
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - It might be their inaugural season, but Alabama FC South is just one win away from a Gulf Coast Premier League championship. “Our very first tryout session that we had, an open tryout, we had the group together and we said, ‘Hey look, we’re not just putting a team to compete. We’re putting a team that has a chance to win it all,” said AFC South general manager and coach Manny Sanchez.
UC Santa Barbara and Tuskegee University Launch Pilot Program to Advance Black Cultural Perspectives in TV writing
If you’ve heard Octavia Spencer give an interview, you can probably tell she’s from the South. But someone who really understands her voice can tell she’s from Alabama. Reese Witherspoon on the other hand? Her voice reveals she’s from Tennessee. And a good dialogue writer knows, it’s not just the twang. It’s the culture.
Montgomery interim police chief addresses department, community concerns
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - It has been nearly two weeks since Jim Graboys took over the position of interim police chief for the Montgomery Police Department. He isn’t wasting time, and says he’s getting to know the officers and the department he now leads. “Riding with them on...
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