More than $500,000 in U.S. Department of Labor grants are being awarded to job-finding programs for Alabamians who have been laid off.
Gov. Robert Bentley says more than $196,800 will be used to support a mobile career center operated by the Alabama Department of Labor.
Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs officials say the vehicle will travel throughout the state offering on-site help to people who have been laid off or lost jobs because of business closures. Officials say the mobile center will house a computer lab for job finding and training sessions.
Officials say $307,450 is being given to Southern Union State Community College. The money will fund individual training accounts for laid-off workers looking to gain skills for jobs in new industries.
High school government students are attending the Alabama Supreme Court’s hearing in Huntsville tomorrow. The state’s highest court will hear cases there at the invitation of the Huntsville-Madison County Bar Association. Mary Ena Heath is a local attorney who helped coordinate the event. She says officials and schools in the community were behind the event once the court agreed to travel to Huntsville.
“We are having twelve hundred high school government students come and hear the oral argument, so we wanted to make sure that was something the school systems were interested in and would support, and they have.”
Heath says she hopes the hearing will educate students about how the appellate system works. The hearing is being held at the Von Braun Center Concert Hall in Huntsville.
The home place of famous Alabamian Hellen Keller now looks a little different. APR student reporter Taylor Swinney reports how the landscape has changed…
Workers at the birthplace of Helen Keller had to cut down a more than 200-year-old oak tree that the famed activist and writer climbed on as a child.
A chainsaw crew removed the sprawling water oak Monday at Ivy Green, now a museum in the Northwest Alabama city of Tuscumbia.
The tree which has been subject to severe damage over the last few years from tornadoes and bug infestation became a hazard to guests at the museum. Board members that oversee the historic venue had no alternative but to cut down the old tree after efforts to save it were unsuccessful.
The tree played a large role in Keller’s life as it was spotlighted during the 1963 film “The Miracle Worker.”