Louis Wedgworth, a 14-year-old cowboy from Livingston and the son of a Hale County native, has added another world title to his rodeo résumé, winning the 2026 Goat Tying World Championship at the National Little Britches Rodeo Association Finals in Oklahoma City. The finals concluded Saturday, July 4. The championship marks Wedgworth’s third world title.... Read More

A Hale County woman has sued AT&T and DIRECTV in circuit court, alleging the companies billed her for phone services she never used and cut off her television service after failing to forward payments she had already made. Mary Ruth Parr filed the complaint in Hale County Circuit Court on July 3, naming AT&T Mobility... Read More

The town of Newbern would receive $746,868 for improvements to its wastewater collection system under federal appropriations bills moving through Congress, U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell announced. The money for Newbern is part of nearly $7 million Sewell said she secured for nine community projects across Alabama’s 7th Congressional District, which includes Hale County. She announced... Read More

The Newbern Library is bringing a special program to the library on Friday, July 10, 2026, called “Nature on Wheels.” The nature-oriented program will begin at 10:00 a.m. and run until 11:00 a.m. The program is an outreach initiative of the Alabama Nature Center, part of the larger Alabama Wildlife Federation in Millbrook, Alabama. The... Read More

A syndicate of lenders led by JPMorgan Chase Bank has placed more than $221 million in construction financing on the EG Saturn solar project near Newbern, according to a mortgage recorded May 15 in the Perry County probate office. The Fee and Leasehold Mortgage, Security Agreement, Assignment of Rents and Leases and Fixture Filing, recorded... Read More

For the first time, the public is being asked to participate in the Wild Turkey Brood Survey. With this tool, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources collects valuable data about annual nesting success, brood survival and distribution and abundance of wild turkeys. While the survey is conducted annually, previous submissions were solicited from... Read More

Commemorating two-hundred and fifty years of America’s history with one-hundred and sixty one years of a people’s (African descendants and African-American people) emancipation from slavery is monumental within itself, many would say. This Juneteenth, we had the privilege to celebrate this in Alabama as well as in Georgia. Birmingham’s Boutwell Auditorium staff not only celebrated... Read More