Archives: June 2021

Triplets
Archives, Local News

Triplets graduate with honors from Central High

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By WVUA 23 News Reporter Aajene Robinson Three’s not a crowd for this group of seniors: it’s family. Triplets Jagger, Bailey and Lux Lynn graduated with honors and accolades from Central High School last week. All three walked with honors medals and cords for dual-enrollment, National Honor Society and social and humanities awards. Jagger’s fourth

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Alabama News, Archives, Local News

Alabama clinics offer free vision screening for rural areas

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – A program meant to prevent vision loss among some of Alabama’s most vulnerable residents will provide free vision screening and testing in rural communities. Studies have shown that poor, Black and Hispanic people are disproportionately at risk for problems that can cause blindness. And many people delay getting eye exams in

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Para Goals
Archives, Local News

Maddox wants more funding for PARA from Northport

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By WVUA 23 News Reporter Karris Harmon Community members gathered at Northport City Hall on Thursday, May 27, to hear Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox’s proposal for Tuscaloosa County Park and Recreation Authority funding. Maddox said his goal is to have the best parks system in the United States. “How are we going to have the best

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Alabama News, COVID-19, Local News

Birmingham mayor pushing city worker bonuses amid pandemic

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Birmingham employees could soon have a bonus coming to thank them for their work during the coronavirus pandemic if city and council officials agree to the pay adjustments. AL.com reports Mayor Randall Woodfin sent a message to employees Friday announcing his plans. The mayor’s office says Woodfin will present the proposal to

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Alabama News, Local News

Police shooting leaves man dead in Central Alabama

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JEMISON, Ala. (AP) – A confrontation between police and a person who was firing a gun in a rural community in central Alabama left a man dead. Jemison Police Chief Shane Fulmer says officers were sent to a home in the Chilton County town of Jemison on Monday because of reports that an armed man

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