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10 Year Anniversary of the EF-4 Tornado that Hit Elmore County Today marks the ten year anniversary of the April 27, 2011 tornado outbreak in Alabama. On that day, a series of storms across the state demolished homes, tore down trees, and claimed hundreds of lives. Governor Ivey has proclaimed today as a Day of Remembrance in Alabama. It’s been a decade since that tornado outbreak killed more than 250 people across the state There were more than 60 tornadoes that hit the state of Alabama in a...

Alabama News The Montgomery City Council will be voting to re-name the road Jeff Davis Avenue. The plan is to name the road after Attorney Fred Gray. Gray is well known for being Rosa Parks’ lawyer along with being on the front lines of a lot of the civil rights movement in Montgomery. Gray is a Montgomery native, his childhood home is on Jeff Davis Ave. The City Council will put the name change to a vote Tuesday afternoon. In addition to Gray being a civil rights activist, he also served as ...

Alabama News The city of Montgomery and the Montgomery County Historical Society teamed up for the Oakwood Cemetery Project. They had a ribbon cutting early Friday morning to announce the start of the digital project. This project is open to volunteers who want to help find the exact location of all of the people buried in this local cemetery. The Montgomery County Historical Society is setting the record straight by Geo-locating and updating records of burial sites in the Oakwood cemetery. The...

Alabama News National Public Safety Telecommunications Week was held April 11 through April 17th. Four members of the telecommunications department received awards today including dispatcher of the year and supervisor of the year. Mayor Steven Reed was in attendance to give recognition to the department and share a few encouraging words to the employees. The telecommunications department are true first responders since they are the ones who answer the 911 calls. Since the pandemic first started...

Alabama News Senators Clyde Chambliss and Bobby Singleton are sponsoring a bill that will take funds from the statewide property tax that is tied to the confederacy, to help preserve and promote black history. Alabama First Created this tax to help confederate soldiers and their widows after the war. The state has continued to collect taxes ever since. Most of the revenue is used for other purposes, but 1% goes to the state’s Confederate Memorial Park  in Mountain Creek. The two senators wan...

Alabama News Updated: Political Analyst Steve Flowers is awaiting campaign announcements.. just like the rest of us in Alabama. For Senator Shelby’s seat, Flowers says the state doesn’t need someone who’s already retirement age, but someone much younger. ” You really need someone young to take senator Shelby’s seat because seniority is so important in Washington, that it is more than likely that its going to take someone 10 to 15 probably 20 years before they have any power. So if yo...

Alabama News Family and friends gathered in the Lowndes County Courthouse today to honor the life and legacy of sheriff big John Williams Sheriff “Big John” Williams was a well loved sheriff in the Lowndes County community. Local law-enforcement and family members gathered in the courthouse in remembrance of his life, Wednesday afternoon. Williams was murdered back in November 2019 and because of the pandemic the county was not able to honor him sooner. His family was given awards on his be...

Alabama News The State mask mandate is set to end Friday, April 9th after 5 p.m. The Montgomery City Council voted to extend the mask mandate for the city  for an additional 30 days. Once the mandate is lifted, local small businesses will have the ability to regulate if they want masks to be required for consumers to wear in their establishments.  

Alabama News Updated: Downtown Wetumpka hosted a Community Market, Thursday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. This event kicks off the first “Linger Longer” weekend. The weekend also includes an Art Walk that will take place Friday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. More than 30 artists, including many well-known local artists, and some from out of state, will showcase their work. The Community Market will take place the first Thursday of each month until November. Organizers say the event featured up to 45 vendor...

Alabama News Updated: The Television series ‘Hometown Takeover’ is a show that features a town that Ben and Erin Napier choose to renovate. Wetumpka was chosen out of 2,600 towns to be features on the series. Two years after the devastating EF-2 tornado hit the downtown area, the community came together to turn that destruction into an opportunity to grow. The first episode will run on HGTV on May 2nd. Wetumpka residents gathered on main street to have their first Community Market since th...