Perry County high school students interested in experiential learning, service and career exploration have until Friday, Aug. 28, to apply for the fall session of Community Leaders in Medicine and Beyond, or CLIMB. The free Project Horseshoe Farm program meets Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. Aug. 28 and are available through Project Horseshoe Farm Perry... Read More

A Marion resident posted video this week of what he described as raw sewage overflowing from a city sewer pump station on Magnolia Street and running downhill into a creek, writing that the city has been called about it multiple times. Forrest Hale posted the video in a community Facebook group. It shows liquid pouring... Read More

Students in Perry County schools are in line for school-based mental health services under two of the 138 grants Gov. Kay Ivey announced Monday, Aug. 24, in the first round of the Alabama Rural Health Transformation Program. Cahaba Medical Care Foundation, the Centreville-based community health center that operates a clinic on Washington Street in Marion,... Read More

Funding will go toward imaging, equipment upgrades, IT, parking, and more improvements Rural Health Medical Program Inc. has received a $1,015,000 federal investment to renovate its Uniontown Health Center, the organization announced last week. The money came through the fiscal 2026 federal appropriations process, RHMPI said. The project, which RHMPI is calling a rural health... Read More

A Huntsville man is charged with felony criminal mischief after authorities say he drove a vehicle into a privacy fence at a Marion residence last September, tearing the fence apart and knocking its gate off the hinges. Takeldrick Deonta Heard, 31, of Huntsville, was arrested Aug. 21 on a charge of criminal mischief, first degree,... Read More

Callan Power LLC, the subsidiary Callan JMB announced Aug. 6 to bring transformer manufacturing to the Atlas Complex in Marion, has agreed to buy oil and gas leases in the Williston Basin of North Dakota and Montana, will be run by the founder of Northern Oil and Gas, and will be renamed Reger Energy LLC... Read More

A 14-year-old has been charged with making a terrorist threat after an anonymous threat closed the Perry County school system Monday, Aug. 24, the Perry County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday. School officials said the threat came in Sunday morning, Aug. 23, and announced that day that schools would be closed Monday out of an abundance... Read More

Two candidates now claim the Democratic nomination for Perry County Commission District 1, and the officials who could settle it have taken opposing positions. On Friday the Alabama Democratic Party’s contest committee voted 5-0 that a disputed ballot from the May 19 primary should count for incumbent Commissioner Albert Turner Jr., putting him ahead of... Read More