Trash Pandas Manager Brings Big-game, Championship Experience to First-year Club
Major League veteran Jay Bell is named the first manager of the Rocket City Trash Pandas
Entries by Mike Easterling
Mario’s Five Points: A New Face in a Familiar Place with the Same Attitude
There’s a brand new eatery in an old familiar place with the same eclectic vibe for residents of Five Points in east Huntsville. Mario’s Five Points, which had delivered pizza while sharing space with Galen’s restaurant for a few years, now occupies the entire building at what many city residents knew as Mullins Drive-In for […]
Monroe Manor to Offer Luxury Living Outside the City Lights
MERIDIANVILLE — A new residential development offers home builders a chance to live just off a golf course of a winding waterway in the northern part of Madison County. Casey Stafford of Stafford Realty is introducing Monroe Manor, a 150-plus acre spread that sits hard against the south end of Colonial Golf Course on one […]
Jim Parker Tribute is Saturday at Hobbs Island Pit Stop
During his senior year of high school in Amarillo, Texas, in 1961, Jim Parker met his future. Jerry Gilmer, who led the band Fireballs in that era, was trying to teach Parker’s sister how to play the theme from the television show “Peter Gunn” on the guitar. Gilmer gave her brother a guitar. “I bought […]
City Receives $1.3M Grant to Renovate Butler Terrace Area
The announcement didn’t come gradually or with the drama that accompanied the rollout of the top four teams participating in the college football playoff, but for the city’s civic leaders the news was just as exciting and filled with suspense for the future. Huntsville is one of four cities nationwide to receive a Choice Neighborhood […]
War Dawgs’ Josh Langford Using Basketball Career to Drive His Mission
“If I can get as many people as I can to come together in peace, I believe we can have a better community and clean it up a little bit.’’
Booz Allen Digital Soldier Program Aims to Make Soldier ‘Unbeatable’
In a conference room at Booz Allen’s fifth-floor Bridge Street office, anyone wearing virtual reality headgear can instantly be standing in the open door of a military plane flying above a training facility on the United States base of the instructor’s choosing. A first-timer wearing the contraption looks around the inside of the plane, steps […]
Huntsville Classic, Korn Ferry Tour Join for Huntsville Championship
The Huntsville Classic golf tournament and fundraiser, a community-wide staple since 1989, is joining forces with the Korn Ferry Tour to provide a week-long event in the city. The Huntsville Hospital Foundation, a nonprofit fundraiser, announced a partnership with the Huntsville Championship. The tournament is in its first year. Golf fans will have the chance […]
War Dawgs Unveil Uniforms; Open Home Season Tonight
The North Alabama War Dawgs unveiled four uniforms Friday in anticipation of the first home game tonight in their inaugural season in the American Basketball Association. The team opened the season on the road with a 119-113 loss to the Atlanta Storm, which is the opponent for tonight’s 7:15 home game at Mae Jemison High […]
Naming of Toyota Field was a Two-Year Drive in the Making
MADISON — On a sunny, let’s-play-three day that begged for baseball, even though the calendar had turned mostly toward football and beyond, the Rocket City Trash Pandas got a name for their new home yard hard on the Huntsville-Madison city limit lines. Toyota Field will usher in the inaugural season of the Double-A Southern League […]
