Tuscaloosanews.com (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
By Lydia Seabol Avant Staff Writer The intersection of Union Chapel Road and Alabama Highway 69 can sometimes be precarious, with two red lights close together and an intersection that is askew.
Tuscaloosanews.com (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
By Lydia Seabol Avant Staff Writer The $10 million Faucett Brothers Park recreational center is now expected to open in early 2011, later than originally planned.
Tuscaloosanews.com (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
By Lydia Seabol Avant Staff Writer Local soup kitchens and food banks are preparing for larger crowds this Thanksgiving week.
Tuscaloosanews.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
By Lydia Seabol Avant Staff Writer NORTHPORT | Officials from the Tuscaloosa Public Library met with the Northport City Council to ask for more money during a council work session Thursday night.
Tuscaloosanews.com (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
By Lydia Seabol Avant Staff Writer The Northport City Council voted Monday night to include five managerial positions in the city’s civil service system.
Tuscaloosanews.com (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
By Lydia Seabol Avant Staff Writer Anyone interested in the city of Northport’s 2010 budget will have a chance to comment and give input before the council votes on it next month. The city plans to go over the proposed budget during a special called meeting Nov. 30.
Tuscaloosanews.com (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
By Lydia Seabol Avant Staff Writer TUSCALOOSA | The list of people eligible to get the H1N1 vaccine has grown longer. Now, those 24 or younger can get the vaccine at their local county health department. This week, the Alabama Department of Public Health sent a second shipment of the vaccine to counties statewide and loosened restrictions on who can receive it.
Tuscaloosanews.com (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
By Lydia Seabol Avant Staff Writer NORTHPORT | A $45,000 appropriation from the city of Northport to the Tuscaloosa Public Library may not be much, compared with the $2.7 million total that the library receives from the governments of the city of Tuscaloosa and Tuscaloosa County.
Tuscaloosanews.com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
By Lydia Seabol Avant Staff Writer The city of Northport plans to create six new positions, buy 19 public safety vehicles and give employees a 4.5 percent raise this fiscal year.
Tuscaloosanews.com (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
By Lydia Seabol Avant Staff Writer TUSCALOOSA | The voice of Stillman College sophomore Princess Stewart reverberated off the walls of Birthright Auditorium Sunday morning as she sang a gospel song a capella in front of 40 of her fellow students. It was part of a special worship service to kick of Stillman’s homecoming week this week.
Tuscaloosanews.com (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
By Lydia Seabol Avant Staff Writer Another trustee on the board of the Alabama Department of Mental Health has resigned, the second resignation from the 16-member board in the past nine days. Luther Strange, who is running for Alabama attorney general, sent his resignation to Gov. Bob Riley on Friday.
Tuscaloosanews.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
By Lydia Seabol Avant Staff Writer Its future has yet to be decided, but no one wants Bryce Hospital to move to Birmingham...
Tuscaloosanews.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
By Lydia Seabol Avant Staff Writer NORTHPORT | For the past decade the city of Northport has planned to rework a drainage ditch in the Buckhead subdivision to help the flow of stormwater runoff. Now, the cost of the project just went up by $162,000 because the drainage area has been designated as a creekbed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Tuscaloosanews.com (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
By Lydia Seabol Avant Staff Writer About 150 employees crowded into the chapel at Bryce Hospital on Tuesday to tell John Houston, commissioner of the Alabama Department of Mental Health, their concerns about the possible sale of Bryce.
Tuscaloosanews.com (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
By Lydia Seabol Avant Staff Writer A crowd of bystanders helped detain a man after he robbed Modern Loans on Skyland Boulevard East on Monday morning.
