The Black Belt Community Foundation awarded $27,450 in community and arts grants to 19 Hale County organizations at a ceremony held in Selma this past weekend, part of a region-wide grant cycle that distributed nearly $359,000 across 12 Black Belt counties. Hale County received $20,500 in community grants shared among 17 organizations and $6,950 in... Read More

A Sawyerville man has been charged with murder in what the Hale County Sheriff’s Office is calling the county’s first homicide of 2026. Rayderell Jermaine Tinker, 38, of County Road 35, Sawyerville, was charged Monday in Hale County District Court with: Murder, a Class A felony Possession of a pistol by a certain person forbidden,... Read More

The former executive director of the Greensboro Housing Authority has filed a lawsuit in Hale County Circuit Court alleging she was unlawfully terminated by an illegally constituted board acting in violation of the Alabama Open Meetings Act. Robin Hamilton filed the complaint on May 1 against the Housing Authority of the City of Greensboro, seeking... Read More

It’s no secret that I love a cookbook. In fact, it’s from reading all these cookbooks in our kitchen that was the impetus for this little weekly correspondence. This Spring, I had lofty ideas of full garden beds and loaves of leavened bread every week. Life, however, has a way of throwing us curve balls;... Read More

Marion attorney Asherica M. Heard is offering two $500 community scholarships to graduating high school seniors from Perry County schools. Eligible applicants must: Have a minimum GPA of 2.5 Plan to attend a college, university, trade school, or technical program in the fall of 2026 Submit a completed application Applications are due May 11, 2026,... Read More

A Uniontown woman was killed in a single-vehicle crash early Sunday morning on U.S. Highway 80 in Dallas County, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA). Kimeia A. Bennett, 43, was fatally injured when the 2011 Hyundai Sonata in which she was a passenger left the roadway, struck a guardrail, and overturned at approximately... Read More

A Selma man has been charged with harassment after allegedly threatening to kill a Perry County law enforcement officer. Ottis Renard Williams, 40, of Thomas Drive, Selma, was arrested April 30 and charged with harassment, a Class C misdemeanor, according to Perry County District Court records. According to the criminal complaint filed in Perry County... Read More

Perry County farm operators may be eligible for emergency loan assistance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) after 30 Alabama counties were designated as primary natural disaster areas due to drought. Perry County was listed as a contiguous disaster county in the designation, which makes producers eligible for the same Farm Service Agency (FSA)... Read More

Perry County drivers are paying the highest gas prices in the state as Alabama’s statewide average crossed the $4 mark this week for the first time since 2022. The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in Perry County stood at $4.27 on Monday, the highest of any county in Alabama, according to AAA.... Read More