Alabama Notes » Birmingham http://alnotes.com Alabama News Optimized for Mobile Devices | BETA Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:16:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 St. Mary’s-on-the-Highlands getting new landscaping, parking http://alnotes.com/st-marys-on-the-highlands-getting-new-landscaping-parking/ http://alnotes.com/st-marys-on-the-highlands-getting-new-landscaping-parking/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:54:55 +0000 Alabama Notes http://alnotes.com/st-marys-on-the-highlands-getting-new-landscaping-parking/

Golightly Landscape Architecture’s plans approved by Birmingham Design Review Committee. Read more from The Birmingham News

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No word yet whether Mrs. Romney will make any public appearances while in Birmingham. Read more from The Birmingham News

]]> http://alnotes.com/mitt-romneys-wife-ann-plans-birmingham-fundraiser-appearance/feed/ 0 Lena Margaret Peoples Hicks, age 93, of Oneonta; today’s Birmingham obituaries http://alnotes.com/lena-margaret-peoples-hicks-age-93-of-oneonta-todays-birmingham-obituaries/ http://alnotes.com/lena-margaret-peoples-hicks-age-93-of-oneonta-todays-birmingham-obituaries/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:24:54 +0000 Alabama Notes http://alnotes.com/lena-margaret-peoples-hicks-age-93-of-oneonta-todays-birmingham-obituaries/

Read today’s obituaries from The Birmingham News. Read more from The Birmingham News

]]> http://alnotes.com/lena-margaret-peoples-hicks-age-93-of-oneonta-todays-birmingham-obituaries/feed/ 0 Birmingham’s mounted police running out of horses http://alnotes.com/birminghams-mounted-police-running-out-of-horses/ http://alnotes.com/birminghams-mounted-police-running-out-of-horses/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:39:47 +0000 Alabama Notes http://alnotes.com/birminghams-mounted-police-running-out-of-horses/

Birmingham isn’t exactly a one-horse town, but it’s close. The police department’s Mounted Patrol — which acquires its animals solely through public donations — has just four horses left on the equine fleet, and only one of those is now able to patrol the city Read more from The Birmingham News

]]> http://alnotes.com/birminghams-mounted-police-running-out-of-horses/feed/ 0 420 bills submitted as Alabama Legislature opens 2012 session http://alnotes.com/420-bills-submitted-as-alabama-legislature-opens-2012-session/ http://alnotes.com/420-bills-submitted-as-alabama-legislature-opens-2012-session/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:39:08 +0000 Alabama Notes http://alnotes.com/420-bills-submitted-as-alabama-legislature-opens-2012-session/

Two metro Birmingham legislators take oath of office. Read more from The Birmingham News

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A newly formed Alabama company is buying the 57 stores owned by Birmingham-based Southern Family Markets.

» Read more from the Tuscaloosa News

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The slaying of 5 men, just over a week ago, has made a Birmingham City Council member call for better lighting across the city.

» Read more from NBC 13

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Most of Alabama’s “American Idol” competitors hail from Birmingham, but tomorrow Tuscaloosa steps up in the form of 16-year-old Justin Oliver, an American Christian Academy student who got passed on to Hollywood after auditioning in San Diego last summer.

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Red bows are popping up on mailboxes, at churches and even garbage trucks around town, in honor of a Tuscaloosa boy who has leukemia. It’s part of the Paint the Town Red for Fuller event, which is raising money for Children’s Hospital in …

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]]> http://alnotes.com/paint-the-town-red-raises-money-for-childrens-hospital/feed/ 0 Jefferson County Commission pulls contracts because of faulty information http://alnotes.com/jefferson-county-commission-pulls-contracts-because-of-faulty-information/ http://alnotes.com/jefferson-county-commission-pulls-contracts-because-of-faulty-information/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:11:20 +0000 Alabama Notes http://alnotes.com/jefferson-county-commission-pulls-contracts-because-of-faulty-information/

“They don’t have their own house in order,” said State Rep. John Rogers, D-Birmingham. Read more from The Birmingham News

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