Alabaster News

Cindy Hawkins, director of Kids First Awareness Coalition Learning Center, invites the public to "A Day of Community Service" July 18 from 9 a.m.-noon to celebrate the center's seventh birthday.

As the summer months creep upon us, many of you at-home moms are finding yourselves with kid overload.

Progressive Finishes received the grant from the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs, which received the funds from American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Spartan Logistics will construct a 121,000 square-foot distribution center that will result in at least 65 jobs, an annual payroll of more than $2.7 million and a capital investment exceeding $7 million, said James Dedes, executive director of the Shelby County Economic and Industrial Development Authority.

A Shelby County business has received a $50,000 U.S. Labor Department grant to train employees for metal parts coatings operations.

Alabaster Police arrested Sonia on Friday, while officers served the warrant on "Chopper" at the Shelby County Jail, where he is currently being held.

Jim a N Nicka s Bar-BQ Alabaster is sponsoring an open house Sunday, June 28 from noon-3 p.m. for the House for a Cure fund-raiser. U.S. soldier Branch Dildine and his wife are raffling their three-bedroom, two-bathroom house at 208 Cove Place in Pelham to benefit the Mississippi Chapter Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Last July, brothers Will Bryant Hines and Demetrius Hines were arrested on cocaine and trafficking cocaine charges following a long-term investigation.

"They are the talk of the community," owner Bridgette Weathers said of cow Molly and goat Maddie Lane.

Today Shelby County businesses hosted a shopping blitz called "Spend 20 on June 20th." County leaders said if every adult in Shelby County spent at least $20 in the same day, it would pump $2.8 million back into the local economy.

For The Birmingham News Alabaster's South City Theatre is not much to look at from the outside.

Welcome to Getting Local With Jane, our weekly roundup of local events of interest to Jane Austen fans.

Two Shelby County cemeteries recently joined the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register.

Prattville High added a new member to its football staff last week with the hiring of assist ant Brad Lowe.

A Helena man turned himself into police late Wednesday after police executed a search warrant on his home at 349 Old Cahaba Trail.

Joseph Allen Ray, 39, turned himself in to the Helena Police Department at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, after police had recovered evidence from his home in the 300 block of Old Cahaba Trail earlier in the evening.

Alabaster has a cruise-in the first Saturday of the month at the Alabaster Promenade shopping center.

The suit, which was filed in Birmingham Federal Court June 1, alleges the city and individual defendants denied Carter due process, equal protection and constitutionally protected rights in an effort to halt his plans to build an apartment complex and commercial development.

A man is in jail after a meth lab bust Thursday night. His young daughter is with child protective services.

Organizers of this year's CityFest in Alabaster said they had expected at least 40,000 to attend, but attendance could reach 50,000. Adam Moseley, an Alabaster city councilman and member of the Alabaster Arts Council, said crowd grew so large today that organizers had to call in more buses to shuttle people back and forth between parking areas and ...