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Next week, local Girl Scouts will be selling door-to-door, and at booth sales outside stores starting March 5. Cookies will be on sale until April 11.
After days of warnings about winter weather — almost all of them aimed at the counties west of the Anniston area — Calhoun County residents woke to a light dusting of snow Tuesday morning, with flakes still coming down.
Most schools in Calhoun County are opening 2-3 hours late Tuesday morning because of possible inclement weather. Cleburne County Schools will close Tuesday, also because of weather.
Temperatures are expected to drop into the low 20s Monday night, but the Calhoun County area should avoid the freezing rain that is hobbling much of the rest of the state.
As of Friday afternoon, no appointments remained available at Calhoun County Walmart stores or other nearby stores in Gadsden and Talladega.
Walmart is expected to receive about 15,000 vaccines later this month and plans to administer them in about half of its Alabama stores.
Several Calhoun County mayors signed an open letter Thursday to the Alabama Department of Public Health asking them to extend hours at vaccination sites, set up Saturday vaccination events, or allow school nurses to administer vaccines in school.
A remaining 652 unscheduled appointments will be available online at rmccares.org beginning at 7 a.m. Friday.
A judge on Thursday revoked the bond of an Ohatchee man charged in his wife’s 2018 death.
More than 4,000 appointments for COVID-19 vaccinations in Calhoun County were taken within 75 minutes of becoming available online Thursday morning. Some additional appointments will be made available Friday morning.
Next Monday through Friday, health workers will offer 1,000 shots per day by appointment, beginning at Oxford Civic Center and later in the week at Anniston City Meeting Center and the Jacksonville Community Center.
Hundreds of people showed up Tuesday at Anniston City Meeting Center to get a second COVID-19 shot — the last big step toward some immunity to the virus that has upended American life for nearly a year.
Starting Feb. 8, Alabama will offer COVID-19 vaccines to people aged 65 and up and to essential workers including teachers, grocery store employees and corrections officers.
There will be enough vaccines on hand for everyone who got a shot the first time around, and officials are not expecting the long lines that marked the January event.
Deputies and bomb technicians were investigating Tuesday after a woman reported finding a bomb in Ohatchee.
Rogers came under fire Tuesday in a blistering resignation letter from a Republican staffer for the House Armed Services Committee, where Rogers is the ranking minority member.
Ten hospital workers at “high risk” because of their exposure to COVID patients will be the first to get the shot on Wednesday.
Local jury trials have been postponed until next year due to the rising number of COVID-19 cases, a circuit judge said.
A local nonprofit was still able to complete its yearly mission despite canceling its main fundraiser due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
An Albertville man remained in jail Wednesday after he was accused of recklessly causing a man’s death earlier this year.
A young Glencoe man remained in jail Wednesday after a Calhoun County grand jury indicted him earlier this month on two sex charges.
Connecting the Ladiga Trail to downtown Anniston has long been a goal of city leaders, largely because of the city’s growing reputation as a site for cycling-based tourism.
Roughly 19,000 households in Calhoun County were still without electricity more than 24 hours after Tropical Storm Zeta passed through the area, Calhoun County Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Barton said during a Facebook press conference Friday morning.
The Calhoun County EMA has released the following list of schools that will be delayed 2 hours on Thursday due to potential bad weather:
Community safe rooms throughout Calhoun County will open at 7 p.m. tonight in preparation for Hurricane Zeta, the county Emergency Management Agency announced this afternoon, with local schools delayed two hours tomorrow.
