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Specialty grocery store will open Northport site

May 10, 2012

NORTHPORT | A family-owned specialty grocery store is coming this summer to downtown Northport. Mark’s Mart, which first opened in Selma in 1980, is opening a second location that will be in an old, converted barn off Fifth Street near Main Avenue, next to the railroad trestle

Four Alabama federal courthouses under consideration for closing

March 29, 2012

Federal courthouses in Florence, Gadsden, Selma and Opelika are among 60 federal courthouses in the country listed for possible closing to save money, The Times Daily of Florence reported.

Commemorative march has deeper meaning for protesters of new immigration, voter ID laws

March 5, 2012

SELMA | The son of civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. told hundreds of demonstrators preparing for a six-day, 50-mile march between Selma and Montgomery that he didn’t believe his father even thought there would be an effort to suppress the vote in

Rev. Al Sharpton among speakers at event commemorating Selma to Montgomery march

March 4, 2012

About 250 people attended the annual Unity breakfast at Wallace Community College in Selma

Civil Rights Heritage Tour makes brief stop in Birmingham

March 3, 2012

Tour group will participate in Bloody Sunday commemoration in Selma on Sunday.

GOP candidates for Alabama’s 7th Congressional District see role for government

March 1, 2012

Don Chamberlain of Selma and Phil Norris of Hoover are competing in the March 13 GOP primary

Selma fest returns to handcrafted roots

December 5, 2011

With more than 40 vendors and artists, baked goods and candies, the two-week Selma Holiday Festival offers shoppers a bit of everything, all in one location.

President Barack Obama comments on Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth

October 5, 2011

Then-Sen. Barack Obama looks on as civil rights leader Fred Shuttlesworth, front left, greets former president Bill Clinton in Selma, Ala., Sunday, March 4, 2007. (Birmingham News, Linda Stelter) WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama today issued a statement about the…

City approves funds for sidewalks around Dothan elementary schools

October 4, 2011

The Dothan City Commission agreed to spend $215,000 during this fiscal year to construct sidewalks around four Dothan schools. The funds will help add sidewalk areas around Jerry Lee Faine, Heard, Selma Street and Hidden Lake schools.

James Ryall, CPA and business instructor at USA, dies at 68; complete coastal Alabama obituaries

September 1, 2011

Read about the life of James Bomar Ryall Jr., a Selma native who worked as a CPA and taught in Mobile, and view links to all of today’s coastal Alabama regional obituaries from the Press-Register.

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