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January 18th, 2018

District 4 2018 outlook: Turning the old into new again

In the coming days, City Blog will take a look at what’s in store in 2018 in each of the [ Read More ]

January 18th, 2018

District 3 2018 outlook: Roadwork milestones, new-look for Ditto Landing

In the coming days, City Blog will take a look at what’s in store in 2018 in each of the [ Read More ]

January 12th, 2018

Toyota-Mazda announcement greeted enthusiastically by community leaders

It was 190 miles away from the epicenter, but the celebration was no less enthusiastic. One hundred or so community [ Read More ]

January 12th, 2018

Lessons learned in loss pay dividends as Huntsville lands Toyota-Mazda

Out of loss came victory. Out of loss came lessons and patience and perseverance. Out of loss came the right [ Read More ]

January 10th, 2018

Inside Story: How Huntsville landed the nation’s top job-creation project

Mayor Tommy Battle won’t likely forget the past holiday season any time soon. From Thanksgiving to Christmas, for hours on [ Read More ]

January 10th, 2018

BIG Picture impact: Toyota-Mazda project meets master plan vision

As Dennis Madsen, Huntsville’s Manager of Long-Range Planning put it, “A decade ago we had already started doing master-planning for [ Read More ]

January 10th, 2018

Raising the bar: How Huntsville fosters an exceptional and growing workforce

Six years ago, Mayor Tommy Battle watched with amazement a robotics demonstration at a Huntsville middle school, with the students [ Read More ]

January 8th, 2018

Huntsville police officer makes life-saving effort through stem cell donation

With no fanfare and little effort, Karl Kissich went through a simple registration process and “totally forgot about it for [ Read More ]

January 4th, 2018

Construction timeline set for summer start on Cecil Ashburn Drive

With a bulldozer and Army surplus equipment, Cecil Ashburn and business partner Pat Gray established a road construction company in [ Read More ]

January 4th, 2018

2-1-1 service can provide cold-weather assistance – and so much more

Three simple numbers on a keypad – 2-1-1 – can make a monumental difference in a life. Particularly as other [ Read More ]