Tag: community
Habitat for Humanity Builds 14 Homes in One Week
By Dennis Washington
Alabama NewsCenter
To say Tonya Torrance is happy would be an understatement.
“It feels great. It’s a feeling that can’t be explained.”
Torrance and her...
UAB’s Sowing the Seeds of Health celebrates 15 years of service...
By Adam Pope
UAB News
For the past 15 years, the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in partnership with local organizations, has organized...
Girl Scouts Gather in Birmingham For Leadership Summit
Special to The Times
Hundreds of Girl Scouts from across Alabama attended the 2019 G.I.R.L. Leadership Summit earlier this month at Samford University in Birmingham.
This...
Rebuilding Titusville Community with $300M in Investments
By Ameera Steward
The Birmingham Times
Picture the Titusville you grew to know and love, a place with miles of land and even more potential. There’s...
Who Are Names Behind Some of Titusville’s Biggest Developments
By Ameera Steward
The Birmingham Times
Ronald Bayles may not live in the Titusville community, but it is where he has attended church for the past...
‘It will be great to not see the blight’ — Residents...
By Ameera Steward
The Birmingham Times
Beverly Varner remembers Titusville—her neighbors, the homes, children playing outside. She and her family moved to North Titusville when she...
Titusville Home to Condoleezza Rice, Odessa Woolfolk and Other Notables
By Denise Steward
For the Birmingham Times
When she was a child, Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Carole Smitherman often spent her summers visiting the public...
DC Blox in Titusville Serves Locally; Connects Globally
By Ameera Steward
The Birmingham Times
When DC BLOX officially opened the first phase of its multitenant data center on Sixth Street South in Titusville earlier...
AT&T Gives Back at Bush Hill’s STEAM Academy
By Ameera Steward
The Birmingham Times
Administrators and teachers at Bush Hills STEAM Academy in west Birmingham got a boost preparing for the first day of...
Kat Files, Dancer, Model, Actress, Returns Home From NY to Teach...
By Ameera Steward
The Birmingham Times
Renowned dancer, model, and actress Kat Files loves to give back to her hometown. Files was in town this month...