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September 12th, 2017

Growing the Bench: Huntsville Municipal Court to get additional judge

The City of Huntsville’s Municipal Court, located in the Public Safety Complex, is not the courtroom of network dramas, of [Read More]

September 11th, 2017

Huntsville firefighters step it up to honor memory of brethren lost on 9/11

Twenty-one firefighters from Huntsville Fire & Rescue (along with one each from Decatur and Madison) participated Sunday in the 8th [Read More]

September 8th, 2017

My views on leadership – Shane Cook

Name: Shane Cook  Age: 44  Title: Director of Water Pollution Control  Family: Wife Emily, daughters Savannah (16), Ava (13), Elainah (8)  Education: Bibb Graves High in Clay [Read More]

September 7th, 2017

Keeping Huntsville ‘Green’ is team effort between City and volunteers

A Realtor is conducting a dizzying, confusing tour through Huntsville with future residents. Yes, Highway 53 becomes Jordan which becomes [Read More]

September 7th, 2017

Gaining ground in the lucrative tourism and hospitality market

When visitors arrive in Huntsville, we expect them to look up in awe under the Saturn V rocket at the U.S. [Read More]

September 5th, 2017

Promising the Moon: how a former council member inspired service

On Aug. 10, 2017, Council voted to name the redevelopment project at the site of the old Grissom High School [Read More]

September 4th, 2017

Building a Cyber Alabama

Mayor Battle offered his vision for a cyber Alabama during his address to the annual conference of  Government Managed Information [Read More]

September 1st, 2017

Having a heart attack and living to tell about it – Council Member Mark Russell

Less than a week after crumbling to the turf while officiating a high school football game, Huntsville City Council Member [Read More]

September 1st, 2017

Riptide Rescue: Quick actions by off-duty Huntsville firefighter praised as heroic

He wasn’t trying to be a hero. He was merely “doing for him what I’d want them to do for [Read More]

August 31st, 2017

My views on leadership – Byron K. Thomas

Name: Byron K. Thomas  Title: Director of Human Resources  Family: Wife Natalie, daughters Nicole and Nena, son Nylan; parents Victor and Ruthie; brothers Leon and Daniel Thomas, [Read More]