Convention & Visitors Bureau Launches Annual #iHeartHsv ‘Digital Lovefest’

With February, comes Valentine’s Day, along with the candy, hearts, and flowers associated with it. What a perfect time to show the love for Huntsville and the hospitality industry!  Despite the pandemic, the Huntsville/Madison County Convention & Visitors Bureau is rolling out its eighth annual #iHeartHsv social media campaign. It runs Feb. 1-14. Folks are […]

High Noon Shutdown Tomorrow; South Memorial Parkway Closed for Blasting

All lanes of South Memorial Parkway near Green Cove Road and Freedom Powersports will be closed temporarily at noon Friday for blasting operations. Weather permitting, a construction crew will be blasting at the intersection of Oak Dairy Lane and South Memorial Parkway. The work is to clear rock for underground utilities for a residential development. […]

Alabama A&M Joins Grow with Google, Thurgood Marshall College Fund Program

Alabama A&M University is among 20 Historically Black Colleges and Universities to join the Grow with Google HBCU Career Readiness Program. Through a $1 million investment in the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, the Google-backed program provides digital skills workshops in HBCU career centers to help Black students prepare for the workforce. “The global pandemic has […]

Former Huntsville Remington Plant For Sale

The former Remington Outdoor plant is up for sale. B. Riley Real Estate, NAI Global and its Huntsville office NAI Chase Commercial announced the offering. The 800,000 square-foot facility is going to market unpriced, the announcement said. The vacant properties are available for immediate sale or lease. Huntsville-based Remington Outdoor opened the plant and its […]

Wilson Lumber Improving Communication with Spanish-Speaking Employees

Building materials supplier Wilson Lumber is making concerted efforts to better engage with employees whose first language is Spanish. About 25 percent of the Wilson Lumber workforce speaks Spanish as their first language; of those, about half are female. These employees are primarily truss builders at the company’s truss plant in Madison. Over the last year, the […]

State of Madison County is ‘Strong … on Solid and Steady Ground’

Despite a crippling pandemic, Madison County was able to sustain growth and success in 2020, Madison County Commission Chairman Dale W. Strong said in the annual State of the County Address. Strong spoke Wednesday to members of the Huntsville-Madison County Chamber of Commerce in celebrating the accomplishments of 2020 and looking forward to 2021. The […]

Fow Wow Designs Owner Just Wants to Have Pun

When it comes to “Made in Alabama” retail merchandise with a twist, nobody does it better than Jonathan Fowler, owner of Fow Wow Designs. Demonstrating a big love for the Huntsville community matched with an imagination just as large, Fowler has come up with a quirky, yet memorable assortment of coffee mugs, t-shirts, ballcaps, and […]

Mazda Foundation Awards Grants to Food Bank, Madison Education Program

A local food bank and education program have been awarded a share of a $450,000 grant from the Mazda Foundation. The Huntsville-based Food Bank of North Alabama and the AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) Center in Madison are among four organizations named Wednesday to receive assistance as part of the foundation’s yearly grant giving. The […]

Athens Area Housing Sales Jump 39% from November to December

ATHENS — It seems everywhere you look, today, sales of homes are skyrocketing. And Athens is riding that rocket, too. According to the latest monthly report from the Alabama Center for Real Estate, home sales (single-family and condos) in Athens and Limestone County were up 39.3 percent from November to December last year. ACRE said […]

Huntsville’s deciBel Research now Employee-Owned

Huntsville-based deciBel Research announced Tuesday it is “100 percent employee-owned.” According to a news release, the company transitioned from a privately held, small business to an employee-owned company through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, effective Jan. 1.  Jeff Gronberg, deciBel Research Chief Executive Officer, will continue to lead deciBel Research and the company’s day-to-day management […]