Spirit of Alabama: The best seats for the Kentuck Art Center
At first glance, you might not know that Hunter Tunnell and Boy Scout Troop 90 leader Mike Henderson are demonstrating Hunter's Eagle Scout project. The two…
Author: Mike Royer
Spirit of Alabama: Rise Center offers love, support
The Rise Center at the University of Alabama is the first program of its kind. In fact, it's been around so long that some of the children who went through…
Annual Stillman health fair honors late student
Stillman College had an excellent turnout for the Denzel Davis Memorial Health Fair on Tuesday. Representatives from the Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center, DCH Health System, Five Horizons Health Services, Sickle Cell…
Northridge High band hosts concert dinner fundraiser
The Northridge High School marching band has performed at a number of parades and even bowl games, including the Sugar Bowl. But there is a new opportunity that is too good…
Take extra care when driving in work zones
The Alabama Department of Transportation is reminding drivers of how important caution is after six highway workers in Baltimore died Wednesday when a driver hit another car and veered into a…
The end of an era: Chamber President Jim Page leaves after 11 years
Looking around Jim Page's office, there are 37 family photographs. That makes it easy to tell where his heart is. And soon, Jim, his wife and their two daughters are moving…
Spirit of Alabama: Celebrating 114 years at Anders Hardware
As best we can tell, the oldest continually operating business in Alabama is Bromberg’s Jewelry in Birmingham, which opened for business in 1836, a mere 15…
Spirit of Alabama: Family bringing fresh milk back in Gordo
Have you ever tasted fresh milk? I mean really farm fresh, ice-cold whole milk. If you’d like to and you live in West Alabama, all it…
Spirit of Alabama: Historian helps families find long-buried details
Steve Davis has worked for the Alabama Department of Mental Health for 47 years. In all that time, he's done a variety of jobs, but he found…
Spirit of Alabama: Educator finds new purpose in healthcare
Years ago, in fact in 1977, local educator Maude Whatley recognized that many families in Tuscaloosa did not have access to proper health care. As a teacher she would see…
Spirit of Alabama: Habitat Christmas Home
By now most everyone is very familiar with the outstanding work done by Habitat for Humanity Tuscaloosa. The organization built ten homes in our area in 2022 and…
Spirit of Alabama: Local school gets a personal look at agriculture
With today’s challenges of feeding hungry people around the world, agriculture research and modern farming is becoming more and more important. Here in Tuscaloosa, the…
Veteran found his calling when he heard of Pearl Harbor attack
President Franklin Roosevelt called Dec. 7, 1941, a day that will live in infamy. It's not hard to remember as the day the United States was drawn into World War II. …
Spirit of Alabama: Equestrian program serves blind, deaf children
This is the longest amount of time that has transpired between a story I did and a follow-up report. It was 32 years ago that I did a story with the Greene family…
Spirit of Alabama: Chambers Cemetery
The cemetery isn’t large, only about a hundred graves are there. But, 25 or 30 of those hold the remains of veterans who have served in the armed forces. There…
Spirit of Alabama: Unless U offers training, fun for adults with disabilities
In Alabama, there are around 350,000 adults with developmental disabilities. An organization in Vestavia Hills is offering a space where those adults can get together, learn and have plenty of…
Spirit of Alabama: Tuscaloosa Children’s Theatre celebrates 37th season
When the 37th season of the Tuscaloosa Children’s Theatre opens, its actors will take the stage in the newly refurbished Bama Theater in downtown Tuscaloosa. The…
Spirit of Alabama: Honoring fallen warriors
Since our country was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, a total of 266 service members who called Alabama home have lost their lives. Many died fighting in…
Spirit of Alabama: Million Dollar Band shines through history
No one is positive how the University of Alabama marching band got the name the Million Dollar Band. However, the most common and logical story comes…
Spirit of Alabama: Retired, but far from not working
If you've lived around Tuscaloosa for a while, odds are good you've at least heard the name Sammy Watson. He's known for a lot of things, including…
Spirit of Alabama: Phoenix House helps people rise above addiction
Sadly, so many families in Alabama and across the country has, in some way, faced challenges of drug and alcohol abuse and addition. Here in Tuscaloosa one nonprofit transitional housing facility…
Spirit of Alabama: Area Scouts celebrate 100 years
The Boy Scouts of America was founded in 1910. Just 12 years later the Black Warrior Council of the Boy Scouts began here in West Alabama. Tuscaloosa…
Spirit of Alabama: Ministry group spreads the gospel alongside athletics
For centuries missionaries have traveled all around the world to share their faith and often try to meet the physical needs of the people. But this…
Spirit of Alabama: Teacher performs inside and outside the classroom
Tab Cooley says she's just a girl from Brookwood, but when you get to know her, you quickly see that she's a rising star who is starting to…
Spirit of Alabama: Cheerleaders train for Special Olympics
Stories about preconceived differences on the surface often end in the realization that there's not much difference, after all. This story is about young women who have been cheerleaders for most…
Coping with national tragedies: Tips for survivors, family, friends
In the aftermath of the tragic shooting in Texas on Tuesday we talked with Dr. Robert McKinney today. Dr. McKinney is the director of University Medical Center’s Office of Case Management…
Spirit of Alabama: Student graduates with an Emmy
Many brilliant students are graduating this week at the University of Alabama. While there's a feature story in all of them, there's one in particular who's already achieved…
After two destroyed buildings, Greater Faith Church built back better
Greater Faith Church has needed a whole lot of its namesake over the years, but this month the congregation is celebrating after overcoming their latest struggle. Like so many others,…
Spirit of Alabama: Modern-day doctor makes old-fashioned house calls
TUSCALOOSA - Dr. Regina Harrell comes to work, not in a doctor's office, or hospital, or clinic, but instead to the assisted living facility where Jeanette Gibson,…
Spirit of Alabama: Exchange Club celebrates law enforcement
It’s nothing new. In fact, the Exchange Club of Tuscaloosa started a special program to honor area police officers in 1975. Former Tuscaloosa Police Chief Ken Swindle has headed up…
