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Big Mama From Greensboro Alabama Never Stirred Her Eggs Like Everyone Else, And Her 10 Tricks Make Scrambled Eggs Soft And Creamy So Nobody Asked For Ketchup

Most of us know the sad scrambled egg. It comes off a hot skillet as a...

Greensboro, AL · 1d

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Opportunity Zones for Selma and Wilcox, Hale, Greene and Montgomery counties approved by feds

The federal government has approved Opportunity Zones to attract investment in 141 places in Alabama, including several in the Black Belt News Network coverage area. Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday announced that Alabama’s Opportunity Zones 2.0 nominations have been approved by the U.S. Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service. The Opportunity Zones Program encourages long-term private investment in economically distressed communities through tax incentives.

Selma, AL · 4h
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University of Alabama Lands $9.9M Grant to Help Rural Readers Who Keep Falling Behind

A $9.9 million federal grant is about to change how dozens of rural Alabama schools handle their most stubborn reading struggles. The University of Alabama is launching Project LIFT, a five-year effort that will train teachers in 75 primarily rural elementary schools to use an intensive literacy intervention called Friends on the Block, aimed at young students who keep falling behind even after getting the standard instruction and interventions available at school.

Alabama · 1d
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Demopolis votes to tear down former Holifield Clinic to make way for future development

The Demopolis City Council voted to pay for tearing down three abandoned buildings near Whitfield Regional Hospital for future development. The council voted at their Nov. 5 meeting to pay up to $75,000 to Steward Construction Co. to take down the former Holifield Clinic and two houses east of the hospital.

Demopolis, AL · 2d
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