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MONTGOMERY-The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides nutrition education and supplemental foods, and serves pregnant, postpartum and breastfeeding women and children up to age 5 …

EUFAULA ─ Main Street Alabama celebrated local program successes at the fifth annual Awards of Excellence on the day that Governor Kay Ivey proclaimed Main Street Alabama Day. The day …

PRENTISS COUNTY, MS – On September 4, 2018, at approximately 4:10 a.m., Lee County 911 received notification of a single motor vehicle collision near Tishomingo, MS (milepost 287). U.S. Park …

MONTGOMERY – Governor Kay Ivey has issued a State of Emergency effective at 7:00 a.m. Tuesday, September 4, 2018, for several Alabama counties in preparation for Tropical Storm Gordon. The counties …

TUPELO, MS – To commemorate National Hispanic Heritage Month, the Natchez Trace Parkway will host a living history encampment representing the expedition of Hernando de Soto on Saturday, September 22, …

TUPELO, MS – The Natchez Trace Parkway invites children and their families to “Hoot Hoot Hooray” a Junior Ranger program to be held at the Parkway Visitor Center on Saturday, …

WILLIAMSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE – The Natchez Trace Parkway will hold biannual “Car Free Parkway Experience” days for bicyclists and pedestrians between mile markers 429 and 440 following a trial event …

FLORENCE – The University of North Alabama will welcome Dr. Stephen McNutt to campus for a lecture Thursday, Sept. 13, at 2 p.m., in the Science and Engineering Building. McNutt, whose lecture …

FLORENCE – The deadline to apply for the next round of Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area community grants is 5 p.m., Monday, Dec. 15. Grant awards from $1,000 up to …

FLORENCE – The University of North Alabama Military Science Department is under new leadership.  Lt. Col. Perry R. Bolding is now serving as the chair of the Military Science Department. Bolding said it’s …

FLORENCE – Mayor Steve Holt and Bicentennial Committee Chair Pat Burney are pleased to announce the Bicentennial activities for the month of September.  Native American heritage is indelibly imprinted in America …

FLORENCE-The Tennessee Valley Historical Society will host a trolley tour Saturday, September 14 at 11:00 a.m. This one hour trolley tour, conducted by Lee Freeman, will visit Florence sites significant …

TUPELO, MS – Rangers along the Natchez Trace Parkway will begin intensified enforcement for the Labor Day weekend. The Ranger presents startedon Thursday, August 30 and  will continue until September …

FLORENCE – The University of North Alabama ROTC program is hosting several activities in remembrance of Sept. 11. The Memorial Physical Training Event, which features cadets and local first responders running 2,996 …

FLORENCE – The 2018 Lynne Burris-Butler Visiting Poet Series will feature Tara Betts reading at the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 9. Betts is the author of Break the Habit (2016), kwansabas (2015) …

FLORENCE-We’ve got the solution to the hot weather, a little dip in the dunk tank! DUNKING FOR DOLLARS is an event benefitting Chloe’s Fund, the medical fund created specifically for …

FLORENCE – August 15, 2018 ─ On Friday, September 7, 2018 The American Legion Post #11 of Florence/Lauderdale County at 318 South Court Street, Florence, Alabama will host an open …

MUSCLE SHOALS – Chad Young will serve as the Grand Marshall of this year’s Shoals Area Labor Council Labor Day Parade next Monday, September 3rd. The parade, which is one …

HOHENWALD, TN – The Meriwether Lewis Visitor Information Center on the Natchez Trace Parkway will operate on fall hours starting Sunday, September 9, 2018. Fall hours of operation will be …

MONTGOMERY- ALABAMA 200 and Reach Out and Read-Alabama are proud to announce a formal partnership in celebration of the state’s bicentennial. In a joint press event on Tuesday, August 28 at the Infants’ and Children’s …