From the West Alabama Newsroom– The COVID recovery effort continues to move forward across the state — but many people in Selma and Dallas County still need help feeding their families. Vaccination clinics have taken the spotlight away from food giveaways at this stage of the recovery effort — but that doesn’t mean food giveaways aren’t still happening — or…
Over the past year, the Attorney General’s Office has received a variety of complaints from citizens who believe that their personal identifying information has been used to carry out attempted unemployment benefits fraud. These schemes appear to be multi-faceted, making them difficult for the Department of Labor to trace and to shut down. Recently, the Attorney General’s Office has learned…
Montgomery COVID-19 Drive-Up Vaccination Clinic/Source: Alabama News Network BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – With Alabama struggling to improve its last-in-the-nation vaccination rate, officials say workers at some immunization sites are providing only a fraction of the shots they could give out. A vaccination clinic in its third week of operation in Lauderdale County has provided about 500 doses. But an official…
The Montgomery County Commission announced the new , ERAMCo. ERAMCo provides financial assistance to qualifying Montgomery County residents to prevent homelessness, housing instability, potential eviction, and financial hardships due to the COVID-19 public health emergency. Funds may be used to provide up to 15 months of assistance for rent, utilities including electricity, gas, water, sewer, internet & trash, and past…
It looks like something to celebrate: small businesses posting “Help Wanted” signs as the economy edges toward normalcy. Instead, businesses are having trouble filling the jobs, which in turn hurts their ability to keep up with demand for their products or services. Owners say that some would-be workers are worried about catching COVID-19 or prefer to live off unemployment benefits…
Hospitalizations linked to COVID-19 have jumped about 20% in less than two weeks in Alabama. Statistics from the Alabama Department of Public Health show 362 people were hospitalized Monday for the illness caused by the new coronavirus. That’s up from the 301 patients just 10 days earlier. But the total is still just a fraction of the 3,070 patients who…
OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) — A large school system in eastern Alabama will no longer require masks to be worn by students or employees. The rules were spelled out in a recent letter sent by Lee County Schools to staff and school stakeholders. Even though masks will not be required in school or at school events, the school system says it…
A large school system in Alabama will no longer require students or employees to wears masks. According to reports, the Lee County School system is no longer requiring students and employees to wear masks. The school system sent letters out to students and stakeholders about the rule change. The school isn’t requiring people to wear masks at school or events…
SBA Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman has announced key details on application requirements, eligibility, and a program guide for the Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RFF). The restaurant industry has been among the hardest-hit sectors during the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. To help bring jobs back and revive the industry, the American Rescue Plan, signed into law by President Joe Biden, established…
FILE – (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plan to meet Friday to discuss the pause in Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, and the top U.S. infectious disease expert says he’d be “very surprised if we don’t have a resumption in some form by Friday.” Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that “a decision…
