The Saints John Lodge 931 of the Free and Accepted Masons of Alabama will host a first responders appreciation day cookout for police and sheriff’s deputies, firefighters, emergency medical workers and other first responders Saturday. Read the full story
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States with lower obesity rates tend to have more policies in schools that ensure students get adequate physical activity and healthy food each day, said John Auerbach, president and CEO of Trust for America’s Health, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit. Read the full story
Alabama Association of School Boards director Sally Smith and other officials from the AASB gave a short seminar to school administrators from Calhoun and nearby counties as a refresher on religious expression in schools. It’s one of a series of such meetings the group has held across the state this year. Read the full story
Events of local interest from 25 years ago.
States with lower obesity rates tend to have more policies in schools that ensure students get adequate physical activity and healthy food each day, said John Auerbach, president and CEO of Trust for America’s Health, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit.
Alabama Association of School Boards director Sally Smith and other officials from the AASB gave a short seminar to school administrators from Calhoun and nearby counties as a refresher on religious expression in schools. It’s one of a series of such meetings the group has held across the state this year.
Images from a fitness class at the Anniston Aquatic & Fitness Center at McClellan.
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City officials learned that local banks offer several loan or grant programs that could help those residents. And several banks have agreed to set up a kind of marketplace Thursday at the Anniston Meeting Center. At the event, residents can talk with representatives from local banks to see what loans or grants they might qualify for.
Twenty-eight-year-old Adrian Wordlow’s body was found on a street in Carrollton with a single gunshot wound to the torso, according to Carroll County Coroner Keith Hancock.
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The partnership was just one of five agreements the depot signed with area stakeholders on Thursday to meet mutual needs. The agreements were the culmination of months of talks between the depot and the stakeholders. The hope is to improve efficiency and reduce the cost of operations for the depot and all agencies and cities involved.
Anniston’s school board on Thursday approved a budget of more than $22 million, reflecting significant changes from the document presented at the board’s first budget meeting a week ago.
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Meeting last week with representatives of the U.S. General Services Administration, Anniston officials learned the agency has narrowed the list of potential firms to two: Harbert International of Birmingham and W.G. Yates and Sons Construction in Atlanta.
Jacksonville State University’s forensics lab expects to expand the crime scene investigation training it offers to area police through a recent $100,000 state grant.
“The greatest danger to any collection is putting it on public display,” Anniston museum director Alan Robison said. “Ideally, to preserve something, you’d keep it in a controlled environment. When you put it on display, you open yourself to what the public can do.”
An Anniston man was shot on the porch of his Argyle Place home Monday night, police said Wednesday.
Jonathan Gaddy, director of the Calhoun County Emergency Management Agency, has been hired as assistant director of the Alabama Emergency Management Agency and will start work in October, state EMA spokesman Greg Robinson said Wednesday. Gaddy said he’ll put in his last day at Calhoun County’s EMA on Friday.
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George Smith's column of Wednesday 12 Sept 2018
Calhoun County residents recognized the 17th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks Tuesday at remembrances in Jacksonville and Anniston.
A judge recently ruled in favor of Anniston City Councilman Ben Little concerning a challenge to his 2016 election victory brought on by his former opponent, Seyram Selase.
The Anniston City Council approved a budget amendment that will have the city giving $10,000 to a local business incubator as well as an extra $15,000 to a local drug task force.
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