Music, art, and more at Sumac Cottage this weekend for Black Belt Birding Festival
Join Sumac Cottage on August 1st from 10-3 for an art exhibition, live music, pop-up shop and more, all in celebration of Alabama Audubon’s 6th Annual Black Belt Birding Festival. For the past 5 years, Sumac Cottage and Black Belt Workshop have worked to bring a visual arts component to each Black Belt Birding Festival,... Read More
Marion police seek information on Thompson Circle shooting
Marion police are still seeking a Selma man wanted in connection with a July 12 shooting on Thompson Circle that injured a bystander and damaged occupied and unoccupied vehicles and dwellings. Jeremiah Orlando Crawford, 21, also known as “Bill,” is described as 5 feet 6 inches tall and about 160 pounds and is known to... Read More
Cedric Wilson
Cedric Wilson, 38, of Baton Rouge, La., died Friday, July 10, in Baton Rouge. Visitation was held Friday, July 24, from 1 to 6 p.m. at Phillip White’s Julia L. White Funeral Home, 322 North St., Uniontown. Funeral services were held Saturday, July 25, at noon at Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church, 12024 U.S. 80,... Read More
Vola Sue Ussery Burcham
Vola Sue Ussery Burcham of Marion died July 11 at the age of 92. Burcham was born Sept. 24, 1933, in Perryville, Arkansas, to the late Frank Ussery and Ruth Rogers Ussery. Survivors include her children, Michael Burcham (Julie), Amy Vasquez (Francisco) and Beth Sabo (Bill); grandchildren, Francisco Vasquez Jr. (Kirsten), Victor Vasquez, Eva Painter... Read More
Mae Elizabeth Wilcox
Mae Elizabeth Wilcox, 95, of the Ocmulgee community in Perry County died July 20. Wilcox was born Aug. 20, 1930, in Selma, the daughter of James Russell Williams and Eula Mae Williams. Her mother died shortly after her birth, and she was raised in Marion Junction by her maternal grandparents, Joseph E. Smith and Emma... Read More
Albert Tubbs Sr.
Albert Tubbs Sr., 94, of Newbern died Thursday, July 23, in Tuscaloosa. Funeral services will be held Saturday, Aug. 1, at noon at Marion Baptist Academy in Marion. Burial will follow at Norfleet Cemetery on Sand Road in Newbern.
Leonard Russell Stewart
Leonard Russell Stewart, 89, died Tuesday, July 21, at his home in Madison. Stewart was born May 9, 1937, in Sprott to Charlie and Mae Stewart. He attended Maplesville High School and graduated in 1955. On Aug. 19, 1961, he married Mattie Ruth Rush Stewart, and they began building a life and legacy of love... Read More
Storytelling workshop set for Aug. 15 at Opera House
The Greensboro Opera House will host a storytelling workshop led by Dolores Hydock on Saturday, Aug. 15, followed by a free public presentation the next afternoon. The workshop meets in two sessions, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Enrollment is limited to 20 participants, and the fee is $20. Those... Read More
Project Horseshoe Farm Fellows: CLIMB students spend a day at UAB
Students in the CLIMB program traded their classroom at Hale County Hospital for a college campus earlier this month, spending a day at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The group spent part of the day in an advanced microbiology lab, where students talked with a professor and took part in hands-on activities. They also... Read More
Walter E. Brown
Walter E. Brown died July 19. A viewing was held Friday, July 24, at Melvin Miller Funeral Service in Marion. A celebration of life was held Saturday, July 25, at the funeral home, with interment following at the Brown family cemetery in Newbern.