Crestwood Medical Center announces new CEO

HUNTSVILLE, AL – Crestwood Medical Center’s Board of Trustees has announced the appointment of Matthew Banks as Chief Executive Officer effective July 18, 2022.  Banks joins Crestwood from Merit Health Wesley, a 211-bed acute care facility in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he has served as CEO for the past 4 years. Previously, he was CEO at Davis […]

Artemis Update: Despite minor test errors, wet dress rehearsal fires off smoothly

After a very long day of work, the Artemis team has earned a well-deserved chance to appreciate a job well done following the completion of its fourth wet dress rehearsal. NASA administrators announced during the post-wet dress teleconference that although the latest exercise wasn’t without a few hiccups, all of the critical targets had been […]

Money going to advocates as city tackles homeless issue

When Scott Erwin and Jennifer Geist approached the Huntsville City Council at a recent meeting to get approval for funds to expand a local homeless advocate center, the sell wasn’t a hard one. Asked about one recent horrific incident at a local camp, where many of the residents live in tents or simply in the […]

U.S. Space & Rocket Center Receives Major Donation for New Skills Training Center

Space Camp, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this week, will soon take another giant leap forward thanks to a major donation by Aviation Challenge graduate and Shift4 Founder/CEO Jared Isaacman.  On June 17, U.S. Space & Rocket Center CEO Dr. Kimberly Robinson and Isaacman announced a $10 million gift for a new training facility […]

HudsonAlpha, University of Georgia CROPS Conference Addresses Plant Sustainability

Hundreds of scientists and agricultural researchers from across the country converged on HudsonAlpha from June 13-16 for a biotechnology conference hosted by the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. HudsonAlpha’s fourth annual CROPS conference marked the return to in-person meetings, with this year’s theme focusing on […]

South Huntsville Main Business Association Receives 2022 Main Street America Accreditation

HUNTSVILLE, AL – South Huntsville Main Business Association has been designated as an Accredited Main Street America™ program for meeting rigorous performance standards. Each year, Main Street America and its partners announce the list of Accredited programs to recognize their exceptional commitment to preservation-based economic development and community revitalization through the Main Street Approach™.  “We […]

Huntsville Black Business Expo set to return in late Summer 2022

Vicki Morris, along with the help of other organizers, held the first Huntsville Black Business Expo in November of 2021 to “Help bring the two worlds of Huntsville together.” Her mission was to take her expertise in helping small businesses in the Huntsville area and highlight black owned small businesses while also providing a family […]

Horizon Sets New Broadband Possibilities in Ohio with Adtran

HUNTSVILLE, AL – Adtran, Inc., (NASDAQ: ADTN), headquartered in the Rocket City, recently announced Horizon has selected the Adtran 10G fiber access platform and intelligent SaaS software to build a new fiber network throughout several communities in Ohio. Horizon is leveraging the Adtran end-to-end broadband solution to expand its service footprint, proactively monitor its growing network and bring high-quality symmetrical broadband to rural communities. […]

Businesses Taking Steps to Smooth Transition Back to Physical Workspaces

As the pandemic wanes and most people are comfortably venturing out in public again, businesses are increasingly calling for employees to return to the office. While essential workers and those who solely relied on in-person interactions commuted to their jobs throughout the pandemic, many knowledge-based positions, particularly in the tech sector, shifted to strictly virtual […]