From the monthly archives: August 2010
Where else can you smile and sway to ole timey blues, enjoy the delicacies of right-off-the grill barbecue and polish sausages, feast on freshly cooked country dinners with assorted pies and cakes and then top it all off with hand churned homemade ice cream. All this and more is happening at the annual [...]
The Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund celebrated its 43rd Annual Meeting this past weekend in Birmingham and at the organization’s Rural Training and Research Center at Epes, Alabama. On Saturday, August 21, Shirley Sherrod, a former Federation staff member and recently dismissed Georgia State Director of USDA Rural Development and Ben Jealous, [...]
A big part of the annual Black Belt Folk Roots Festival is the many local and regional crafts people who bring their creations to sell to festival attendees. Two of them take everyday materials and turn them into beautiful items which are also usable. Mrs. Odessa Rice and Mrs. Mary Hicks are just [...]
The Alabama New South Coalition held a Leadership Retreat on August 6 and 7 in Montgomery, Alabama to prepare for the November 2, 2010 General Election. Motivating and mobilizing young people in the age range of 18 to 35 to actively participate in the voting process was a key focus of the weekend [...]
In the Greene County Civil Court on Tuesday, August 17, Circuit Judge Eddie Hardaway dealt with several cases involving Greenetrack as well as a case which questions whether or not the Riley-appointed Sheriff George Cook is even qualified to serve as sheriff and a case involving monies owed the county by the Town of Forkland. [...]
At Tuesday’s Eutaw City Council meeting, the Council voted 3 – 1 to support a new ordinance to change the zoning of the former Sumter Veneer site from M-1 (light industry) to M-2 (heavy industry) to accommodate Elam Properties that wants to use the site for a scrap metal and tire recycling business. Residents of [...]
Lucius Black of York, AL, age 84, died on Thursday August 5, 2010. Black, a lifelong resident of Sumter County, served in the Alabama House of Representatives for the District 71 covering Greene, Sumter, parts of Marengo and Tuscaloosa counties from 1983 until his retirement in 2006.
On Wednesday morning, August 11, Greenetrack CEO Luther “Nat” Winn was acquitted in the Greene County District Court of the charge of reckless endangerment in the takeover of Greenetrack by Gov. Bob Riley’s Task Force. He and the Greenetrack employees and supporters who were jailed for Obstructing a Government Operation earlier that same morning had [...]
Civil Rights Attorney Jim Blacksher filed a class action suit on behalf of voters of Greene and Macon counties against Gov. Bob Riley and Illegal GamblingTask Force leader John Tyson in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Western Division on Thursday, July 28, 2010. This suit was based on [...]
People began arriving at Greenetrack shortly after 8 a.m. on Wednesday morning, July 28, to receive free food from the House of Prayer Family Church. Everyone was given a flyer which detailed the eligibility rules, which depended on the size of the family and the yearly income. “Anyone who receives USDA food stamps is eligible for [...]
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