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IVY GREEN, THE BIRTHPLACE OF HELEN KELLER, will be closed for interior painting from January 8-21. Normal business hours will resume on Monday, January 22.

FLORENCE – The 32nd Annual Martin Luther King Unity Breakfast takes place Monday, January 15 at 8am at the Shoals Marriott Conference Center. This community event is sponsored by the

FLORENCE – The Florence-Lauderdale Public Library’s popular ‘Get Out of Town’ series returns this month on the first floor colonnade at 2pm for a new travel experience every Sunday.

Anybody wishing to take a dip in Torrevieja’s municipal swimming pool earlier this week may have been disappointed and had to resort to the rather chilly Mediterranean Sea, as the pool was closed to the public for the recording of a scene for a feature film. The film, Hora y veinte, is a thriller directed

FLORENCE – The Red Kettle Campaign is the Salvation Army’s oldest and most important annual fundraiser and the lifeline for many of the Salvation Army’s vital programs. Every dollar raised

Just before the New Year began, a 16-year-old was killed in a shooting in Mandarin. Then, the shooting death of a 14-year-old in the Sherwood Forest neighborhood marked Jacksonville’s first homicide of the year.

FLORENCE – The Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts is pleased to present on display, This House Was Full of People: The Art of Mary Wallace Kirk from January 7 –

FLORENCE – Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts is pleased to present the Shoals Piecemakers Quilt Guild Exhibition January 5 - February 29. The Piecemakers Challenge theme for this year is,

INFANTS/ADULTS CLOTHES, AND SHOES giveaway – Our winter clothes and coats are out. Thursday, January 4 from 8–10am at the Care Center, First Baptist Church, Killen

Central Japan may experience earthquakes with maximum intensity on its seven-tier scale system in the coming week, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said on Monday.