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“A Living Hope” Update: Adair on Hospice Care

We have been following the story of Rhonda Adair, a Millbrook mom battling cancer, since her diagnosis. Rhonda Adair has decided to go under hospice care. She is now back home after getting treatment at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Texas. Doctors say they have done all they can do and last month, just gave her weeks to live. Adair’s Facebook…

Rain Later Today, Freezing Temperatures Ahead

Last night started off clear, but overnight, our flow has shifted back around from the south and moisture is returning, and we are seeing that with the clouds moving back into the area this morning. Before heading out the door this morning, grab the rain gear as a rather wet Monday is ahead. RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS: Days like today…

Driver Finds Success with Uber One Year Later in Montgomery

Johnny Green is on the road these days…. Formerly known as “Windee Breeze” on “Good Afternoon Montgomery,” he now has a new alias. “Hi, everybody! I’m Johnny Green, better known now as the “Papa Uber…. the Ubernator,’” said Green. He says Uber has been a great way to earn a living on his own terms. “I’ll give you an example,…

Salvation Army Honors Volunteers at Annual Dinner

The Salvation Army gave back Thursday night to the people who give so much to them. It was the annual volunteer dinner held at Frazer United Methodist Church. Guests enjoyed a speakers, music, and a good meal. More than 45 hundred volunteers served The Salvation Army in some way throughout the past year. One of those volunteers was Martha Poole…

Sun Today, Rain Tomorrow, Colder Next Week

Gorgeous weather will continue today, most of today will be mostly sunny and very warm with a high up in the upp 70s. Clouds will be on the increase late in the day as our next system approaches the area. FRIDAY: Moist air returns Friday, and we will have the risk of a few scattered showers and possibly a thunderstorm…

State Board of Education Discusses MPS Takeover

The State Board of Education met Wednesday for a work session to discuss plans for the takeover of Montgomery Public Schools. The board met in a work session to clarify some issues that have recently come to the forefront. Those issues included the Alabama Reading Initiative. Superintendent Michael Sentance says there is a lack of quality reading teachers in the…

A Couple of Nice Days, Rain Returns Friday

TODAY/TOMORROW: The front is pushing out of Alabama this morning and a drier air mass will settle into the state for these two days. Both days will feature more sun than clouds with lows in the lower 40s, and highs in the lower to mid 70s. Very nice weather for the second week of March. FRIDAY: Moist air returns Friday,…

Forty-five Lawmakers Work to Stop Toxic Lending in AL

You don’t have to go very far to see payday lending shops in Alabama. “The states around us have done things, so that has pushed a lot of payday lenders into Alabama. So per capita, we have the highest number of the payday loan shops in the state,” said Christopher Nanni, President and CEO of The Community Foundation of Greater…

Golden Apple: Katy Elliott

Our Golden Apple Award Winner this week comes from the Crenshaw County School System. As the 6th grade science and social studies teacher at Highland Home School, Katy Elliott says a lot has changed in her 24 years of years teaching, and offers these words of advice to anyone interested in becoming an educator. “Anyone that is thinking about becoming…