Beyond the Cart: Huntsville’s Samantha Coots Finds Fulfillment While Fulfilling

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Huntsville shopper honored for her essential work by Instacart

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HudsonAlpha Breaks New Ground with Campus Expansion

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The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology is the epicenter of ground-breaking work in biotechnology and genomics. In keeping with that image, it hosted a rather unique ground-breaking ceremony for the expansion of its campus. Not only was it masked and socially distant, but it also took place inside the Propst Center with the participants each donning […]

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Victory Solutions Awarded $169M NASA Contract

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Huntsville-based Victory Solutions has been awarded a Consolidated Program Support Services Configuration and Data Management contract to provide CDM services at 10 NASA centers including Huntsville’s Marshall Space Flight Center. A Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned and Woman-Owned Small Business, Victory Solutions specializes in building relationships with defense and commercial customers to develop, analyze, and integrate advanced aerospace […]

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An Idea is Hatched: Hospitality Workforce Development Program to Begin in August

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Starting this summer, a new workforce development nonprofit will do its part to bolster the hospitality workforce in Huntsville while also empowering the local young adults to lead self-sufficient lives. The program called Hatch is designed to help 18 to 24 year-olds gain essential life skills with training in the hospitality industry. The program will […]

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Alabama Approves Innovation Legislation

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The state of Alabama, near the bottom of the national rankings in its support of small business and entrepreneurship took a giant step to help solve that problem. The Alabama Senate this week unanimously passed HB 540 and HB 609, two bills geared toward the advancement of state’s economy. The passing of these bills serves […]

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City Garners a ‘10’ from SEC; Future Championships Possible

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Host cities and venues generally have a year to prepare for the Southeastern Conference Gymnastics Championships. This year, the Von Braun Center had barely two months to prepare for the event after it was pulled from New Orleans because that city was deemed a COVID-19 hot spot. Alabama won the title with a late surge […]

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Telehealth Services Getting a Clean Bill of Health from Patients and Physicians

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Since the pandemic, people stayed in their homes and avoided public places. They shunned restaurants and stores, making home delivery and curbside pickup the “new thing.” Health services also evolved to meet the “new normalcy” with the popularity of telehealth services. According to a report at the Centers for Disease Control, approximately 1,629,000 telehealth encounters […]

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Sit Down with Success: David Nast of Progress Bank – Chase Your Dreams and Work as Hard as You Can

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In 2008, David Nast and four partners organized the opening of Progress Bank. It was at the time, the only bank headquartered in Huntsville, and they opened offices on Williams Street in downtown Huntsville and in Decatur. In the past 13 years, Progress Bank has expanded to offices in Madison County, Florence, Birmingham, Daphne and […]

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I-565 Interchange Helps Town Madison Ramp Up Progress

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MADISON — Toyota Field looked a bit like Mudville on Thursday as the long-awaited opening of the new Town Madison exit off I-565 struck out mightily in rain.  Moving the celebration into the open-air Toyota Field concourse from the exit ramp, the Madison Chamber of Commerce, Madison Mayor Paul Finley, Madison County Commission Chair Dale […]

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What’s Brewing at Alabama A&M? Straight to Ale’s Lager with a Bite

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Coming soon to this area – a lager with some bite.  As part of an exclusive and innovative partnership, local brew guru Straight to Ale has teamed up with Alabama A&M University in rolling out a lager-style beer.  This initiative combines Straight to Ale’s brewing expertise with the academic food science prowess of A&M.  Straight […]

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