Rocket City Mom Media Group Welcomes New COO

The Rocket City Mom family continues to grow alongside the city it calls home. Lindsey Barron is the new Chief Operations Officer at Rocket City Mom Media Group and RocketCityMom.com. Barron will oversee daily operations for Sales and Editorial Staff and can be reached via email at lindsey@rocketcitymom.com. “As the Huntsville area continues to experience […]

City of Huntsville Secures Federal RAISE Grant For Pedestrian Access Project

Thanks to a massive infusion of $20 million in federal grant funding, the City of Huntsville can now check off another of its long-desired goals: creating a more walkable city. An added bonus: the grant will provide an economic boost to low-income communities. While the pedestrian access and redevelopment corridor (PARC) project has been on […]

Huntsville Company’s Solar Sail Propulsion Extending Deep Space Exploration

A CubeSat developed by the Huntsville company NeXolve and NASA will soon take space exploration even further. Known as the Near Earth Asteroid Scout, the small craft was developed under NASA’s Advanced Exploration Systems Program at Marshall Space Flight Center and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. CubeSats show immense promise for space-based science […]

Wrestling legend Flair brings virtual wings restaurant to Rocket City

Old Guard professional wrestling fans take note: Ric “The Nature Boy’’ Flair, the legendary squared-circle hall of famer who recently announced he had participated in his final match, is trying to be “The Man’’ in a new arena: hot wings via virtual restaurant Wooooo! Wings. Flair launched the food delivery venture in six cities: Huntsville, […]

Lockheed Martin’s Next Generation Interceptor Achieves Communications Testing Milestone, Proves Ability To Operate In Harsh Environments

Lockheed Martin recently validated prototype communications radio technology for its Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) during a recent test milestone. The NGI’s mission is to protect the U.S. homeland from increasing and evolving intercontinental ballistic missile threats. Critically, the interceptor and its components must be able to receive and share data from the ground and throughout […]

New county courthouse among topics at State of the County address

Huntsville’s downtown square has always been centered by the Madison County Courthouse. That will no longer be true once a site has been determined to build a new courthouse. And while the destination for the new building that will replace an outdated courthouse that was built in 1964 has not been decided, one thing is […]

Local, national hospitals deal with staffing shortages amid rising COVID numbers

A recent challenge for hospitals across Alabama, along with the rest of the nation, has been staffing. Dr. Don Williamson, with the Alabama Hospital Association explained in a recent interview that less health care professionals are working now than during the omicron and delta spikes. “We might have substantially greater difficulty dealing with 1,500 people […]

Judge rules in favor of TVA over Bellefonte sale

Recently, U.S. District Judge Liles Burke sided with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in a lawsuit claiming they breached its contract with Nuclear Development LLC over the acquisition of the Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant. Judge Liles ruled that TVA was within its rights to cancel the sale of the power plant to the Memphis based […]

Staffing and supply chain issues remain as Covid stays active

While the coronavirus keeps reminding the country, and Madison County, it’s not through with us as recent case numbers and hospitalizations rise in wake of the new sub-variant BA.5, the original COVID-19 is still having an impact. Though perhaps not as significant as at the height of the pandemic, staffing and supply chain issues that […]

Former Coca-Cola site agreement gets alterations; City rezoning discussed

The planned construction of a new urban center on the vacant 13-acre site where the Coca-Cola bottling plant once sat in Downtown Huntsville is still a go, albeit under a different agreement between the city and the developer. Shane Davis, Director of Economic and Urban Development, presented an amendment to an already approved deal between […]