The Alabama Cooperative Extension System, through the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), is inviting the community to come together in support of local families for a Drop & Go Drive-Thru Baby Shower and Donation Drive. This event is being held in an effort to ensure that expecting parents and newborns in Hale County... Read More

Television has long been an escape, not just for me, but for many of us. This is where I could reference David Foster Wallace, the cycle of irony, and ‘algorithmic loneliness’—yet this is a recipe column, not a college paper. Still, I have been reexamining my relationship to such passive entertainment. Cooking has always been... Read More

Mars Hill Missionary Baptist Church will hold its annual homecoming and 158th church anniversary on Sunday, July 12, during the 11 a.m. morning worship service. Guests for the occasion will be Pastor Quentin Urban Jones and the Faith Believing Church of God family of Huntingtown, Md. Former members and friends are invited to come home... Read More

First Baptist Church of Akron will hold its annual Homecoming and Twelve Tribes Program on Sunday, July 19, at 2 p.m. at the church, 7160 First Avenue North. The celebration brings together two of the church’s traditions, Homecoming and the Twelve Tribes Program, for an afternoon of worship and fellowship. The program will honor the... Read More

A public forum on data centers and their impact on Hale and Marengo counties will be held Thursday, July 30, in Gallion. The forum, titled “What the Community Should Know About Data Centers,” runs from 3 to 6 p.m. at Wallace Community College, 186 Field of Dreams Drive. It is open to the public and... Read More

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 memorial fund has been established at Peoples Bank of Greensboro to help the family of Dale Bates, the longtime Greensboro postal worker who died last month. The Dale Bates Memorial Fund will assist his wife, Patrice Bates, in caring for their son, Dale Bates Jr., 32, who has cerebral palsy. Those wishing to contribute... Read More