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Council amends Gadsden's business license code; setup will be revisited every five years
Gadsden will no longer go decades between a revisiting of its business license code and schedules following action Tuesday by the City Council. The council passed a measure that will reclassify certain license types (reflecting current businesses that might not have existed in the past), expand the tiers on certain business license schedules, modify the penalty for underpayment of business license fees or fraudulent license activity and adjust the duties of the city's revenue director.
White Plains Better Than Cycle
White Plains, AL – White Plains’ Richardson homers twice, adds triple and double as Wildcats power way past Jacksonville for area title. Both teams headed for regional Area softball tournament results/pairings Class 6A, Area 12 At Choccolocco Park FRIDAY, April 26 Oxford 14, Gadsden City 1 Pell City 15, Clay-Chalkville 0 Pell City 15, Oxford 4 […] The post White Plains Better Than Cycle appeared first on Calhoun Journal.
Historic Alabama: Chemistry for the front lines
During World War II, women filled the chemistry lab at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber plant in Gadsden. The plant closed in 2020, 91 years after it opened in 1929. The plant was busy during the war, producing a number of war-related products, including gas masks, tires for the Army, rubber-dipped fabrics and reclaimed and synthetic fiber. Photo courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives & History.
GCHS honors National Merit Scholarship finalists
Gadsden City High School honored its two National Merit Scholarship finalists, seniors Mithun Rameshkumar and Sally Whitt, with a reception and ceremony on April 19. Rameshkumar, son of Gyathri Kandasamy and Ramesh Chellamuthu, has a 4.0 GPA and is in the top 1% of his class, according to a news release from the school.
Smaller runway to be decommissioned at Northeast Alabama Regional Airport
The Northeast Alabama Regional Airport is about to have one less runway and a bunch more opportunities, according to city officials. The City Council on Tuesday signed off on the Gadsden Airport Authority's decision earlier this year to decommission Runway 18-36 at the airport. Council approval is required since the city is the authority's partner on the facility.
A historical marker in Alabama unearths a long-forgotten cold case
How many times have you passed a historical marker on the side of the road or stood in front of one on the street and wondered, who writes these things? Who decided this needed to be here? NPR has spent the past year examining the stories these markers tell. We've found they've spread hate, they've spread joy, and even on occasion, they've unlocked secrets. As part of our ongoing series "Off The Mark," NPR's Laura Sullivan brings us this report from Alabama about a place where a man was killed on the edge of a dusty two-lane highway and then forgotten.
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