Alabama Notes » thursday http://alnotes.com Alabama News Optimized for Mobile Devices | BETA Thu, 24 May 2012 05:57:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Westlawn, Orchard elementary schools getting 1,000 new children’s books http://alnotes.com/westlawn-orchard-elementary-schools-getting-1000-new-childrens-books/ http://alnotes.com/westlawn-orchard-elementary-schools-getting-1000-new-childrens-books/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 20:47:34 +0000 Alabama Notes http://alnotes.com/westlawn-orchard-elementary-schools-getting-1000-new-childrens-books/

MOBILE, Alabama — The Pearson Foundation will be donating 1,000 new children’s books to Mobile’s Westlawn and Orchard elementaries on Thursday and Friday.

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The Reunion Friendly Network, a national organization dedicated to educating veteran military reunion planners, is visiting the city Thursday through Sunday.

» Read more from The Huntsville Times

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The Reunion Friendly Network, a national organization dedicated to educating veteran military reunion planners, is visiting the city Thursday through Sunday.

» Read more from The Huntsville Times

]]> http://alnotes.com/huntsvillemadison-county-convention-visitors-bureau-hosting-reunion-friendly-network/feed/ 0 Bridge inspections to close I-65 lanes in Calera http://alnotes.com/bridge-inspections-to-close-i-65-lanes-in-calera/ http://alnotes.com/bridge-inspections-to-close-i-65-lanes-in-calera/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 03:53:00 +0000 http://alnotes.com/bridge-inspections-to-close-i-65-lanes-in-calera/

ALDOT will close northbound and southbound outside lanes of I-65 in Calera to perform bridge inspections on Thursday, May 24 starting at 9 a.m.

» Read more from FOX 6 WBRC

]]> http://alnotes.com/bridge-inspections-to-close-i-65-lanes-in-calera/feed/ 0 Full schedule for Smith Farms Festival released http://alnotes.com/full-schedule-for-smith-farms-festival-released/ http://alnotes.com/full-schedule-for-smith-farms-festival-released/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 22:50:00 +0000 Alabama Notes http://alnotes.com/full-schedule-for-smith-farms-festival-released/

The full schedule for the first ever Smith Farms Music Festival has been released, with acts spread out from Thursday May 24, to Saturday May 26.

» Read more from the Cullman Times

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Four people are charged with capital murder in the death of a Headland man, who died Thursday after spending two weeks in the hospital being treated for injuries he received while being beaten.

» Read more from the Dothan Eagle

]]> http://alnotes.com/four-charged-in-headland-mans-death/feed/ 0 Researcher attempts to create peanut resistant to drought, disease http://alnotes.com/researcher-attempts-to-create-peanut-resistant-to-drought-disease/ http://alnotes.com/researcher-attempts-to-create-peanut-resistant-to-drought-disease/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 12:29:29 +0000 Alabama Notes http://alnotes.com/researcher-attempts-to-create-peanut-resistant-to-drought-disease/

FAIRHOPE, Alabama — The perfect peanut may be growing in a dusty field outside of Fairhope. The candidates — different varieties bred by an expert peanut geneticist — were planted Thursday morning at Auburn University’s Gulf Coast Research and Extension Center.

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Birmingham firefighters are investigating at least? 14 suspicious fires since Thursday and they are all abandoned homes and businesses. Investigators say the fires could all be connected and they are looking for an arsonist.

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]]> http://alnotes.com/more-suspicious-fires-burn-in-birmingham/feed/ 0 Birmingham firefighters battle four more fires as rash of blazes continue http://alnotes.com/birmingham-firefighters-battle-four-more-fires-as-rash-of-blazes-continue/ http://alnotes.com/birmingham-firefighters-battle-four-more-fires-as-rash-of-blazes-continue/#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 14:57:50 +0000 Alabama Notes http://alnotes.com/birmingham-firefighters-battle-four-more-fires-as-rash-of-blazes-continue/

Firefighters have now battled at least 13 blazes since Thursday night, most of them in the western part of the city Read more from The Birmingham News

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Bentley retreats again The Decatur Daily Gov. Robert Bentley's stand on the Legislature's immigration bill could have been a defining moment in which he demonstrated his political courage. Instead, he made a weak protest that came a year late. On Thursday, Bentley announced …

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