Planting the $eeds: Anniston hopes new board will bear retail fruit Anniston's City Council has seen what it looks like across the bridge in Oxford. Retail continues to grow, though it has been slowed by a bad economy. The Oxford Exchange, an outdoor mall loaded wi...
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Dan Whisenhunt Assistant Metro EditorAnniston Star
Oxford taxpayers paid for demolition OXFORD — A stone mound on a hill behind the Oxford Exchange created by American Indians 1,500 years ago will soon disappear. And whether Oxford's taxpayers wanted it or not, they paid for its destr...
CDA contracts not at Oxford City Hall People looking for contracts signed by Oxford's Commercial Development Authority won't find them at City Hall where the board meets. They're up the road on East 13th Street in Anniston in the offic...
Oxford promised to pay CDA bonds OXFORD — The development of two large commercial projects in Oxford happened because the City Council made a promise to pay back debts of its Commercial Development Authority.
Landing a big retail store in Alabama sometimes takes serious bait.
Since 1994, Oxford's Commercial Development Authority has been the city's fishing pole. The city baited the CDA's hook by provid...
Several financial ties connect Mayor Leon Smith and the board promoting the city's commercial development.
Smith sees nothing wrong with these links between his political fundraising, one of his b...
Five years ago, there was little but an overgrown wooded area south of Interstate 20's exit 188.
Today the once-empty space is dominated by the city's new economic engine, the Oxford Exchange, ...
One name often mentioned in the turbulent history of the civil rights movement in this part of Alabama is Kenneth Adams. The case of Willie Brewster, shot down by nightriders in July of 1965, is no...
As to the facts of the case of Willie Brewster, a man shot to death by nightriders on a lonely stretch of Alabama 202 more than four decades ago, Harry Sims is as detailed as the frayed onion-skin ...
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