Events — Page 33

The arts come alive in Florence this weekend

FLORENCE — From The Ritz Theatre to the W.C. Handy Festival, there is no shortage of ways to celebrate art and artists in the Shoals, especially in the summer. This weekend […]

HUNTSVILLE — Thursday night, 18-year-old Lucas Hasting of Decatur walked across the stage at the von Braun Center to receive his Associate of Applied Science degree with a concentration in […]

Can you dig it? CoalFest weekend comes to Brilliant

BRILLIANT — A communitywide coal mining festival will kick off in Brilliant this month. CoalFest pays tribute to the roots of the coal mining industry with two days of family […]

HUNTSVILLE — The 2022 Southern Fried Film Festival takes center stage at the new Orion Amphitheater in June. Tickets are on sale for the four-day-long event. After the June 9 […]

UNION GROVE — PeopleTec is teeing up its ninth annual PeopleTec Helping People charity golf tournament at Cherokee Ridge County Club to benefit the Semper Fi Community Task Force. The event […]

HUNTSVILLE– Bridge Street Town Centre hosts Fido Fest this Saturday to benefit the Greater Huntsville Humane Society. The seventh annual event from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on the green space in […]

HUNTSVILLE — Huntsville’s most enduring summer music tradition, the Concerts in the Park at Big Spring Park, returns June 6. The series runs every Monday through Aug. 1 from 6:30-8:30 […]

DECATUR — “Up, up and away “My beautiful, my beautiful balloon” So sang the Fifth Dimension in their 1960s hit “Up, up and Away.” On Memorial Day weekend, more than […]

DECATUR — Donna C. Coleman, Calhoun Community College alumna and founder/CEO of Huntsville’s Aetos Systems, will speak at this year’s commencement exercises, the school announced. More than 450 graduates are […]

HUNTSVILLE — Taking it “1×1,” country singer Jake Owen will take the stage Saturday to open Huntsville’s Orion Amphitheater for the 33rd annual Huntsville Classic Concert. Owen brings his Up […]

DECATUR — As Calhoun Community College prepares for its first-ever graduation ceremony at the Von Braun Center on May 12, the school recently recognized its “Top Ten Most Outstanding Students” […]

HUNTSVILLE — NASA has recognized a new generation of potential space explorers who competed in the agency’s 28th annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge. The annual event challenges high school and […]

CULLMAN — A strawberry-filled day is planned for this weekend in downtown Cullman. Saturday’s annual Cullman Strawberry Festival promises plenty of strawberries but also a whole bushel of hometown fun […]

ATHENS — Strap on those chaps, sharpen the spurs and practice your rope-spinning skills because the “Greatest Show on Dirt” is coming to Athens this month. As part of Rodeo […]

The deadline to purchase $18 weekend passes for the 40th Panoply Arts Festival in downtown’s Big Spring Park is tomorrow, Friday, April 29, at 4 p.m. Day passes are available […]

Tourism officials to organize cleanup on Bear Creek Lakes

The Alabama Mountain Lakes Tourist Association (AMLA), Franklin County Chamber of Commerce and professional angler Timmy Horton, in partnership with Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), are hosting a river stewardship event […]

HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology has teamed up with Huntsville’s Urban Engine, a nonprofit specializing in innovation programs, to host the fifth HudsonAlpha Tech Challenge (HATCH). This year’s hackathon event will […]

The Southeast Family YMCA is sponsoring a Ditto Landing Clean-Up Day on Saturday, May 7, from 8 a.m. until noon as part of the YMCA’s Togetherhood Initiative. The campaign is […]

PorchFest Five Points 2022

PorchFest Five Points is set for May 7 from 6-10 p.m., all along Pratt Avenue in downtown Huntsville. As the country began to emerge from a global pandemic at the […]

MADISON — Only in a city of rocket scientists and engineers would you not be shocked to hear they are turning Toyota Field’s pitcher’s mound and home plate into goalposts […]

Parents and students have only until Friday, April 29, to nominate teachers for the What’s Pop’N Kernels of Knowledge campaign throughout the Huntsville, Madison City, Madison County, Decatur and Hartselle-area […]

Rock the Vote 2022

HUNTSVILLE — With the Alabama primaries exactly one month away on May 24, Huntsville’s Committee 100 Young Professionals debuted their biennial Rock the Vote event at Stovehouse this weekend. 256 […]

First Horizon Bank awarded three Huntsville businesses for their submissions to the Back to Business contest designed to celebrate resilient businesses in the communities the bank serves. The bank awarded […]

Foundation 1781 has been spearheading its “Foster the Love” donation drive through April in celebration of Military Child Month and National Child Abuse Prevention Month, but they will continue donation […]