Alberta News

Quilt mural trail highlights Gee's Bend artists

Alabama Live - Sat Nov 08

GEE'S BEND - The quiet here has a way of making sounds more distinct, and the landscape is illuminated much more by nature than neon.

There's no substitute for newspapers

Selma Times-Journal - Sat Oct 04

I like newspapers, not tabloids, newspapers. When visiting other cities, I glance over the USA TODAY, which is left each morning at my hotel room door , but it is the local daily I purchase to enjoy with ...

Drug prosecution unit waits on grant

Selma Times-Journal - Mon Sep 29

The drug prosecution unit covering the largest geographical circuit in the state is awaiting word on approval for a grant to help with funding.

Former Camden officer sentenced for sexually abusing girl

WSFA-TV Montgomery - Tue Sep 16

A former Camden police officer learned his fate Monday after a conviction on sexual abuse charges.

Quilters put life back into bee

Montgomery Advertiser - Mon Sep 15

GEES BEND -- The Free dom Quilting Bee, once given up as a worthy but lost cause in one of America's poorest communities, is coming back to life.

Free prostate cancer screening locations

WSFA-TV Montgomery - Tue Sep 09

The Alabama Department of Public Health and the Urology Centers of Alabama are offering free prostate cancer screenings on Saturdays from 10 until 2 at these county health departments.

Alabama Health Officials Urge Prostate Screenings

NBC13.com - Tue Sep 09

State health officials are offering free prostate cancer screenings in West Alabama.

Barbour County statistic stunning

Eufaula Tribune - Tue Sep 09

Some statistics pass by me in a blur. Then at other times, they jump off the page.

Artist finishes Gee's Bend quilt murals

Montgomery Advertiser - Fri Sep 05

GEE'S BEND -- An artist has finished painting wooden murals of some of the famous quilts made in the Wilcox County community of Gee's Bend.

Artist finishes painting Gee's Bend quilt murals; next step is placing them along a tourist trail

Alabama Live - Wed Sep 03

Artist Tyree McCloud has finished painting wooden murals of some of the famous quilts made in the Wilcox County community of Gee's Bend, and now it is up to the county commission to put the murals at designated ...