A new partnership is helping to ensure Tallassee City School students in need have food to put on the table. According to Child Nutrition Program Coordinator Loria Hunter, 60% of students in the Tallassee City School system are eligible for free and reduced lunches. When the coronavirus pandemic began, the school system offered curbside pickup to help meet students nutritional…
Governor Kay Ivey issued a “Safer At Home” order effective at 5pm on Thursday, April 30. In accordance, Jackson Hospital is continuing its policy to prohibit visitors at this time. The restrictions remain as follows: No Visitations will be allowed into the hospital. Delivery personnel are not permitted into the hospital. One visitor per patient will be permitted into the…
Alabama State University has partnered with the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) and the Montgomery Housing Authority (MHA) to provide free COVID-19 testing for residents of a local housing community. President Quinton T. Ross, Jr., made the announcement on Monday, May 4, that a drive-up clinic for eligible residents of the William B. Paterson Court Housing Community will be…
Alabama lawmakers have resumed a shortened legislative session focused on state budgets. Legislators had taken a nearly two month break during the COVID-19 outbreak but returned to Montgomery to pass state budgets and a few other bills. Legislators wore masks. Members of the 105-member House of Representatives spaced themselves out over two floors at the Alabama Statehouse in order to…
We know that Alabama’s COVID-19 data is constantly changing, and now so is the way that leaders are responding to the pandemic at the local level. Monday, Alabama News Network got a look at the “COVID-19 Unified Command” in Montgomery. Governor Kay Ivey established the group as a hub for state health, military, and emergency management leaders who are collecting…
Alabama gas prices have fallen 2.2 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $1.52/g today, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 3,348 stations. Gas prices in Alabama are 16.1 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 98.3 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. According to GasBuddy price reports, the cheapest station in Alabama is…
Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced today that ADOL has disbursed more than $503 million in COVID-19 related unemployment compensation benefits. Alabama is now paying benefits under all three programs covered in the CARES Act: Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC). $503,011,424 has been paid to 206,694 claimants over…
A rural Alabama sheriff says his department won’t enforce state guidelines limiting public activities during the coronavirus pandemic. Reports say that Blount County Sheriff Mark Moon says he has instructed deputies not to stop businesses or churches that violate state restrictions. Moon says he isn’t defying Gov. Kay Ivey. He says he just can’t punish someone who is trying to…
As we continue to navigate through the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and recommendations continue to evolve, Baptist Health remains focused on protecting patients, medical providers, team members, and the local community. Based on Governor Kay Ivey’s recent Safer at Home order and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), American College of Surgeons (ACS), Alabama Department of Public…
It has now been two months since Super Tuesday. Former Auburn football head coach Tommy Tuberville and former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will face off in the U.S. Senate GOP primary runoff on July 14th. The candidates now have extra time to prepare since the March 31st runoff was postponed due to coronavirus concerns. “They both finished in about…
