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21 hrs ago | Selma Times-Journal

Job fair scheduled for Wilcox County

ThyssenKrupp Steel USA and ThyssenKrupp Stainless USA will hold a jobs fair today from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. at Wilcox Central High School in Camden.

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Related Topix: Camden, AL

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Montgomery Advertiser

Lowndes landowners unhappy with disparity in wetland prices

LOWNDESBORO -- Why should wetland in Lowndes County be worth $285 an acre less than similar prop erty in neighboring Wilcox County? That's a question Lowndes County resident Rick Pate and several of his farming friends are asking.

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Related Topix: Lowndes County, AL, Lowndesboro, AL, Agriculture, Science, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Representative Bobby Bright, Democrat, Montgomery, AL

Mon Oct 19, 2009

Selma Times-Journal

Gee's Bend seniors to benefit from grant

MONTGOMERY a ' A $25,000 Community Development Block Grant to the Wilcox County Commission will see construction of a new senior center at Gee's Bend.

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Related Topix: Montgomery, AL, Boykin, AL, Camden, AL

Sat Oct 17, 2009

WSFA-TV Montgomery

Ala. unemployment continues rise

The state of Alabama's unemployment rate continues an upward trend jumping another four-tenths of a percent in September.

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Thu Sep 24, 2009

Alabama Live

Roads Less Traveled: Searching for the statue a church didn't want erected

I knew it had to be here. I drove back and forth, up and down highways and narrow trails in the tiny place back in a corner of Wilcox County.

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Related Topix: Pine Hill, AL

Tue Sep 22, 2009

Alabama Live

Tombigbee River continues rising

Recent rains continue raising water levels along the Tombigbee River. Forecasters at the National Weather Service expect the Tombigbee River to flood on Wednesday, affecting Choctaw, Washington and Clarke counties in southwest Alabama.

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Related Topix: Weather, Natural Disasters, Flood, Choctaw County, AL, Coffeeville, AL

Sun Sep 20, 2009

Decatur Daily

Morgan unemployment rate stays flat; Lawrence worsens:

The August unemployment rate remained flat in Morgan County, with improvement in Limestone County and worsening conditions in Lawrence County, according to figures released Friday.

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Related Topix: Morgan County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Lawrence County, AL

Fri Sep 18, 2009

Decatur Daily

County unemployment rates for August released

The August unemployment rate remained flat in Morgan County, with improvement in Limestone County and worsening conditions in Lawrence County, according to figures released Friday.

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Related Topix: Limestone County, AL, Lawrence County, AL

Tue Sep 15, 2009

Times-Journal

Quilt fair to be featured at Boom Days

Some believe quilting began when the first settlers arrived in America. The Gee's Bend Quilters Collective was established 2003 by more than 50 quilters from Gee's Bend in Wilcox County.

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Related Topix: Life, Quilting, Hobbies

Sun Sep 13, 2009

Alabama Live

Experts closing in on site of bloody battle of Mabila

A team of 17 academics -- historians and archeologists, folklorists and anthropologists, geographers and geologists -- believe they are zeroing in on the holy grail of Southeastern archeology: the central Alabama site of the battle of Mabila.

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Related Topix: Anthropology, Science, Europe, Spain, World News, University of Alabama

Sat Sep 05, 2009

Forbes Autos

Alabama to spend $6M to stop spread of pesky weed

The state of Alabama plans to spend more than $6 million in federal stimulus money in an effort to control a pesky, grass-like weed that much like kudzu has spread across the state.

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Related Topix: Alabama, Mobile County, AL, Wilmer, AL, Pine Apple, AL, Auburn University

Tue Aug 25, 2009

Alabama Live

Falling timber industry hits rural Alabama, U.S. hard

Traffic flows through the town of Pine Hill, Ala., Thursday, July 9, 2009. Pine Hill, population about 1,000, has been dying for years as gas stations, restaurants and the town's only motel have closed along a state highway that parallels the railroad tracks through town.

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Related Topix: Pine Hill, AL

Wed Jul 29, 2009

WSFA-TV Montgomery

Judge finds himself being judged

A West Alabama judge finds himself facing a judge Wednesday. The Alabama Court of the Judiciary is deliberating in the case of Hale County Circuit Judge Marvin Wiggins who is accused of not stepping aside in a case involving three of his relatives.

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Related Topix: Alabama State University

Thu Jul 23, 2009

Alabama Live

Fairhope women's group helps Wilcox County

After Jean Harmon read a Press-Register article about economic woes in Wilcox County, she said she could not just forget about it.

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Related Topix: Camden, AL

Wed Jul 22, 2009

Montgomery Advertiser

State's jobless rate reaches double digits

The Alabama Department of Industrial Relations released its most recent figures on the state's unemployment rate from June -- and the forecast says things will remain cloudy for state residents.

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Related Topix: Elmore County, AL, Montgomery Metro, Montgomery, AL

Mon Jul 20, 2009

Shelby County Reporter

County unemployment doubles in past year

Shelby County's unemployment rate for the month of June was 7.6 percent, more than double June 2008's unemployment rate of 3.4 percent, according to the Alabama Department of Industrial Relations.

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Sun Jul 19, 2009

ABC 33/40

Alabma Unemployment Passes 10%

Alabama's unemployment has gone into double digits and is at its highest mark in 25 years.

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Related Topix: Alabama, Madison County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Talladega County, AL

Fri Jul 17, 2009

Montgomery Advertiser

Problem arises over Camden's helipad

CAMDEN -- Darryl Perryman suffered a heart attack during a business meeting in Camden last October and woke up at a Montgomery hospital less than an hour later.

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Related Topix: Camden, AL, Montgomery Metro, Montgomery, AL

Wed Jul 15, 2009

WHNT-TV Huntsville

Missing Montgomery woman with Alzheimer's found walking through Camden neighborhood

Wilcox County sheriff's deputies have found a missing Montgomery woman who has Alzheimers.

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Related Topix: Montgomery, AL, Camden, AL

Tue Jul 14, 2009

The Mobile Register Online

Gee's Bend ferry receives $1.4M grant for upgrade

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says Wilcox County will receive more than $1.4 million in federal stimulus money to improve ferry service between Gee's Bend and Camden.

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Related Topix: Camden, AL

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