If you have a family member resting in the Burroughs Cemetery, please send a contribution for the upkeep and maintenance to: Burroughs Cemetery Fund, c/o Samuel Ryan, 8890 County Road 32, Greensboro, AL 36744.
The Hale County Water Authority is considering applying for a Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) loan from the Alabama Department of Environmental Management to fund water system improvements. A public hearing on the proposed application will be held Wednesday, April 8, at 5:15 p.m. at the Water Authority’s offices at 19873 Alabama Highway 69 in Greensboro. An Environmental Information Document will be available for public review at the office during business hours. The hearing will cover the nature and... Read More
Justin Smalley and Abby Catherine James of Hale County received youth livestock scholarships from the Poarch Band of Creek Indians during SLE Livestock Week in Montgomery. The tribe awards scholarships to two young people from each of Alabama’s 67 counties each year to support their continued participation in youth livestock programs. Pictured from left are PBCI member and Perdido River Farms Director John English, Smalley, James, and SLE President-Elect Galen Grace.
A Greensboro man faces three counts of reckless endangerment after he allegedly fired multiple shots from a semi-automatic pistol into a crowded parking lot outside Club 14 in Sawyerville in the early morning hours of March 15. Jalen Deon Williams, 26, of 1109 Ward Street, Greensboro, was arrested March 19 and is being held in the Hale County Jail on $6,000 bond per count ($18,000 total), according to court records filed in Hale County District Court. According to the sworn... Read More
A 265-acre wildfire near the Hale County and Tuscaloosa County line has been fully contained after burning through national forest land near Duncanville over the weekend, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The South Sandy wildfire broke out at the South Sandy Shooting Range, approximately four miles southwest of Duncanville, and was first reported over the weekend. The fire was 25 percent contained as of 10:00 a.m. Monday, March 23, and had grown to 50 percent containment by 4:00 p.m.... Read More
Tammy Hannah-Anderson, of Moundville, Alabama, was recently elected to membership in The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi—the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society—at Auburn University at Montgomery. Hannah-Anderson is among approximately 20,000 students, faculty, professional staff, and alumni who are initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year.