Parents who have concerns about a child’s development, learning, speech and language, hearing, vision or other areas can get help through Child Find, and early identification can make a difference, Perry County Schools said this week. Child Find is a statewide effort by the Alabama State Department of Education and the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation... Read More

Sacred Space, Inc. is inviting artists from Hale County and across the Black Belt to take part in the Black Belt Paddle Festival, set for Saturday, Sept. 26, at Jennings Ferry Campground on the Black Warrior River. Organizers are looking for artists working in painting, photography, sculpture, textiles, mixed media, folk art and nature-based art... Read More

The Perry County Revenue Commissioner’s Office is updating addresses and telephone numbers for everyone who pays tag, title and property taxes in the county, and Revenue Commissioner Rita Kynard-Smith is asking residents to call in their current information. Current contact information ensures that every customer is properly informed of pressing matters and that unforeseen issues... Read More

A Marion woman is charged with endangering the welfare of a child after Selma police say they found four young children left unattended in a hot vehicle in the Selma Walmart parking lot Thursday, Sept. 3. D’Anna Nicole Harris, 26, was arrested after officers on routine patrol spotted the children in a parked car as... Read More

Pizza has always been there for me—it doesn’t let you down. There’s a reason almost every depiction of teenagers in any given TV show or movie brings it around to pizza in one way or another. You’d think I was made of pizza when I was a teenager. In fact, I distinctly remember many a... Read More

Zion Chapel Methodist Church in Marion has been awarded a $54,937.50 historic preservation grant through the Alabama Historical Commission’s Historic Sites Grant Program, funded by the state Legislature. Sen. Robert Stewart announced the award, noting that the church, known locally as Zion Church, holds an important place in the history of the Voting Rights Movement.... Read More

The Marion City Council has postponed its Tuesday, Sept. 8, meeting after the death Saturday, Sept. 5, of Bennie C. Hinton Sr., 73, the father of Mayor Dexter Hinton, the city announced Sunday. The council’s next regular meeting is Monday, Sept. 21. Funeral services will be Saturday, Sept. 12, at 1 p.m. at Berean Baptist... Read More

Fire science and criminal justice degrees added this fall; plans unveiled for a model fire house Marion Military Institute cut the ribbon Wednesday, Sept. 2, on two major additions to its First Responder Program: a fire training burn tower funded through an Alabama Community College System workforce development grant and a fire training pumper engine... Read More