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The Inland Waterways Corporation commissioned the building of four self-propelled barges, the Birmingham, Gulfport, Mobile and Tuscaloosa.

New tugboat helps modernize Parker Towing Co.'s fleet When Capt. Larry Norris pilots a marine vessel down river with barges strung out in front of his tug, he knows the river can put up a fight.  "You have hours and hours of sheer boredom. It's what you get used to," Norris said Friday during the christening of Parker Towing Co.'s new tug, the Jared Phillips. "But, if you've never been over here, it's a fight. You have to fight against the bottom of the river. If the river comes up and falls out real quick, the bottom will change up. Between Oliver Lock and Fosters, the turns are real s...

Robert Barry , June 26th, 2021 08:15 With a survey of half a century of work currently on view at Almine Rech, American painter Larry Poons talks about Beethoven, baseball, and the teacher who believed in him as an artist before he did himself Larry Poons (2019) Warrior River Boy. Acrylic on canvas 170.2 x 281.9 cm “Painting is a fast medium. You go from here to there with a substance – and you do it quickly.” For Larry Poons everything is fast. Everything is immediate. Everything is now. So much so that talking about how you actually get there is liable to make him impatient. When I a...

Some people are worried about the look of their community creek in Tuscaloosa County.

The ‘fixer-upper’: County Manager, former Mayor Tony Petelos ready to retire after 35 years of public service Photo by Erin Nelson. Jefferson County Manager Tony Petelos at the Jefferson County Courthouse in downtown Birmingham. Petelos is retiring after 35 years of public service in the Birmingham-Hoover area. When Tony Petelos left the Hoover mayor’s job to become Jefferson County’s first county manager in 2011, a lot of people told him he was crazy. Hoover was considered a “happening” city where things were running smoothly, and Jefferson County’s governm...