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District 4 2018 outlook: Turning the old into new again

In the coming days, City Blog will take a look at what’s in store in 2018 in each of the...

District 3 2018 outlook: Roadwork milestones, new-look for Ditto Landing

In the coming days, City Blog will take a look at what’s in store in 2018 in each of the...

Toyota-Mazda announcement greeted enthusiastically by community leaders

It was 190 miles away from the epicenter, but the celebration was no less enthusiastic. One hundred or so community...

Lessons learned in loss pay dividends as Huntsville lands Toyota-Mazda

Out of loss came victory. Out of loss came lessons and patience and perseverance. Out of loss came the right...

Inside Story: How Huntsville landed the nation’s top job-creation project

Mayor Tommy Battle won’t likely forget the past holiday season any time soon. From Thanksgiving to Christmas, for hours on...

Raising the bar: How Huntsville fosters an exceptional and growing workforce

Six years ago, Mayor Tommy Battle watched with amazement a robotics demonstration at a Huntsville middle school, with the students...

Huntsville police officer makes life-saving effort through stem cell donation

With no fanfare and little effort, Karl Kissich went through a simple registration process and “totally forgot about it for...

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...

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,...

Community weighs exciting possibilities for the J.O. Johnson campus

As Devyn Keith pronounced the benediction on the meeting, he asked others to share a vision, to accept some potential...