City Stories

It began with conversations on the tailgates of pickup trucks and around cozy kitchen tables and on creaky wooden porches, [ Read More ]

As most of the state was idling in a deep freeze in mid-January, Alabama’s lawmakers were meeting in Montgomery for [ Read More ]

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

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

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

There has been no shortage of media interviews for Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle during 2017. But there’s one that sticks [ Read More ]

One was a self-confessed “late bloomer,” arriving on a delayed, circuitous route. The other knew in an instant this would [ Read More ]

I suspect it’s the cop/fireman/cowboy/astronaut/ball player fascination of an eternal boyhood that influences this selection. In 2017, City Blog posted [ Read More ]

On a cold, windy morning, friends and fellow veterans gathered for a final tribute in a most-appropriate location. The gathering [ Read More ]

On behalf of the 24,000 students served by Huntsville City Schools, I would like to encourage the citizens of Huntsville [ Read More ]