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- Project Horseshoe Farm Fellows: CLIMB students spend a day at UABStudents in the CLIMB program traded their classroom at Hale County Hospital for a college campus earlier this month, spending a day at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The group spent part of the day in an advanced microbiology lab, where students talked with a professor and took part in hands-on activities. They also heard presentations on the UAB application process and scholarship opportunities. In the anatomy lab, students handled human bones and organs, including brains and hearts. Students... Read More
- Walter E. Brown
Walter E. Brown died July 19. A viewing was held Friday, July 24, at Melvin Miller Funeral Service in Marion. A celebration of life was held Saturday, July 25, at the funeral home, with interment following at the Brown family cemetery in Newbern. - Free prostate cancer screening will be Aug. 1 at Hale County Health DepartmentOn Saturday, August 1, 2026, the Urology Health Foundation will hold a free prostate cancer screening for men 40 years of age and older from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. at the Hale County Health Department, 670 Hall Street in Greensboro, Alabama. No appointments are needed. Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men. Age and race are the strongest risk factors for prostate cancer. African-American men are at special risk for the disease, with... Read More
- Ethel Carter Brasfield
Ethel Carter Brasfield, 68, of Akron, died Saturday, July 11. She was born Nov. 16, 1957, to the late Ben and Mary Harris. She joined church at an early age. She was a member of New Pentecostal Holiness Church and joined Shekinah Glory Holiness Church of Akron. She was preceded in death by six brothers and two sisters. She is survived by her loving and devoted husband of 41 years, Joseph Brasfield of Akron; one daughter, Angela (Bobby) Nobels; one... Read More - Paula Jeanne Plummer
Paula Jeanne Plummer, 58, of Tuscaloosa died July 19 at DCH Regional Medical Center. Services were held Friday, July 24, at Greensboro Baptist Church at 10:30 a.m., with Bobby Dubose and Keith Pugh officiating and Magnolia Chapel South directing. Burial followed at Oakwood Cemetery. Plummer was born May 27, 1968, in Demopolis. She graduated from Greensboro High School as class president, salutatorian and a member of the bio-med program, and earned a Bachelor of Science in commerce and business administration... Read More