Shirts apparently made recently for Congressman Mike Rogers’ re-election campaign use a Jacksonville State University logo not approved by the institution, a campus spokeswoman says. Read the full story
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
City leaders voted to add three new members to Jacksonville’s industrial development board on Monday and replace the chairman who has years of experience recruiting industry. Read the full story
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.
City leaders voted to add three new members to Jacksonville’s industrial development board on Monday and replace the chairman who has years of experience recruiting industry.
Calhoun County’s Chamber of Commerce is planning to replace its usual pre-election candidate forum with a series of online interviews, but some candidates wish they’d go back to the old system.
Candidates in Alabama’s midterm elections have spent about $17,000 on advertising at sporting events or donations to high school sports teams at schools in Calhoun County, according to campaign finance reports. Statewide, candidates have forked over $218,226 to high schools in the 2018 election cycle.
Images from Weaver Heritage Day at Elwell Park in downtown Weaver.
The sheriff, in interview Wednesday, said finding the inmates as quickly as possible remained his top priority over fulfilling legal requirements, but his deputies’ recapture of the escapees still met the 12-hour time frame of the Joel Willmore Act.
Criminal background check paperwork was missing in the files of more than 10 percent of the adoption applications checked by Alabama state auditors in 2015, but officials of the Department of Human Resources say they’re confident the background checks were actually done.
Images from The Berman Museum's Family Craft Day.
Events of local interest from 75 and 25 years ago.
County Commission chairman Lee Patterson said leaders are working to find solutions to an overpopulation problem at the county jail and to find revenue for pay raises. But, he said, stipulations of a state grant say the money can’t be used for raises.
During its Tuesday meeting, the Oxford City Council named the park’s entrance road after Rusty Riley, who died last year, to honor his service as the park’s first director.
Alabama lawmakers set aside $250,000 in 2014 for an ombudsman who could take female inmates’ complaints directly to the governor. Then-Gov. Robert Bentley never created that office, and spent the money on a different program — a lapse that went largely unnoticed until state auditors uncovered it earlier this year.
Alabama Power’s latest license to operate Neely Henry Dam — and six other dams on the Coosa River — became invalid Monday. That doesn’t mean the dam will be shut down or dismantled: Company officials say they can operate Neely Henry under an old license which has been repeatedly renewed in recent years.
Images from the Walt Maddox rally at the Peerless Grille in Anniston.
If you had been a Star reader 75 or 25 years ago, these items might have caught your attention.
The prospect of a consumer boycott against America’s largest motorcycle manufacturer didn’t pose much of a problem Saturday for Oxford’s yearly gathering of Harley-Davidson fans.
“It helps to have a buffer there to not have to have a line of credit to make monthly payroll and other expenses,” said Sally Smith, executive director of the Alabama Association of School Boards. “It also gives the school capacity to handle unanticipated expenses.”
More than a year after the Alabama Legislature put the pro-life amendment on the ballot, there’s been little public campaigning for or against the measure. Activists on both sides say the inclusion of anti-abortion wording in the Alabama Constitution would amount to a momentous change.
The report shows that 83.2 percent of babies born in the U.S. in 2015 were breastfeed. Still, only 35.9 percent of those babies were still nursing after 12 months. For Alabama, 68.1 percent of babies born in 2015 breastfed. And only 35.9 percent of those babies were still breastfeeding after 12 months, the report states.
An Anniston man faces a felony theft charge after brass vases went missing from more than 100 graves in Anniston and Oxford cemeteries, police say.
Joel Cobb was recently awarded a $35,000 federal grant to partially reimburse him for energy efficiency upgrades he’s made in recent months at his poultry farm just outside Anniston.
Images of incoming JSU students during the annual JSU move-in day.
Images from a day selling cool AJ's Ice Cream treats.
