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Humble Heart Farms & Goat Yoga

3/29/2019

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​Family Fun Day at Humble Heart Farms

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​On March 31st, this Sunday, Humble Heart Farms will be hosting another Family Fun Day. Families will be able to enjoy farm tours, cheese tasting and special food dishes. Bottle feed baby goats and see how it’s done. Co-Sponsoring the event will be our friends at C.T. Garvin Feed & Seed along with Red X Fitness and together we will try...


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Athens Art League Spring Season

3/28/2019

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​It’s the spring season and art events are blossoming in Athens

Athens Arts League is welcoming the spring season and blossoming with creativity.
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​Area artists are submitting entries for the annual Alabama Spring Contest and Exhibit, which will open to the public in April. The Alabama Bicentennial Commission is endorsing the exhibit since it highlights the beauty of springtime in Alabama. Art pieces will range from blacksmith creations to oil paintings to stained glass.
 
“Alabama awakens from winter with such beauty from North Alabama with its creeks, farms and wooded trails to the coast with its ocean breezes,” said Athens Arts League Vice President Diane Lehr, who oversees the contest and exhibit. “Art is an ideal way to capture the gorgeous sites of spring in Alabama.”
 
The Alabama Spring Exhibit will be at...


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Hospice Chili Challenge 2019

3/22/2019

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Hospice Chili Challenge Spicing Things Up In New Location

PictureBooth decorations and themes are part of the fun during the annual chili challenge. Pictured is the Limestone County Career and Technical schools - Jackpot booth.
​Perhaps your images of a hospice - a community organization that offers compassion and support to terminal ill people and their families - doesn't include jalapenos, chili beans, and family fun but in Limestone County Alabama it does. 

Hospice of Limestone County is ready to spice things up with their annual fundraiser on a new date and at a new location.  This year's Hospice of Limestone County Chili Challenge and Silent Auction has...


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2019 Spring Turkey Season

3/15/2019

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​Turkey Season Opens Saturday, March 16, in Most Alabama Counties

​Delayed season dates on select WMAs
PicturePhoto by Gary Mitchell
​​Spring turkey season will open March 16, 2019, and close April 30 for most Alabama counties. In 2018, the Conservation Advisory Board passed a motion that set the start date for turkey season as the third Saturday in March each year.

The decision was made to allow...


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2019 Student State-Fish Art Contest

3/8/2019

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Students Encouraged to Enter
​State-Fish Art Contest

Deadline for entries is March 31
PicturePhoto: Longear sunfish by Austin Zhan. 2018 contest winner for Alabama in grades 4-6 catagory.
​Each year, K-12 students from across the country can enter their artwork in the Wildlife Forever State-Fish Art Contest. The contest requires student artists to depict a state fish. Prizes are awarded at the state and national levels in four categories: K-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12, with students in grades 4-12 writing a one-page essay about the fish, its natural habitat and the importance of that habitat in addition to the artwork. Complete contest rules and the entry form can be found on the Wildlife Forever website, www.wildlifeforever.org.
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Artists can choose to depict either...


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AL Non-game Wildlife Fund

3/8/2019

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Your Donations Help Support
​Alabama’s Wildlife

State income tax check-off makes it easy
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You might not associate wildlife with doing your state income taxes, but there is a connection. The Alabama Nongame Wildlife Fund check-off box on the state income tax form provides citizens a way to donate all or a portion of their state tax refunds for the benefit of nongame wildlife.
Alabama is home to more than 1,000 species of animals that are categorized as nongame – species that are not hunted, fished or trapped. The Nongame Wildlife Program, administered by the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR), is responsible for


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2019 Trash Attack A Go - With Changes

3/7/2019

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March 9th Trash Attack A GO
with A Few Changes

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​Keep Athens-Limestone Beautiful (KALB) in cooperation with TVA, United Pest & Turf Control, Lowe’s, Keep Alabama Beautiful, and ALDOT will hold the Limestone County-Wide Trash Attack this Saturday, March 9th as scheduled with a few changes to the master plan.

The event will go on as planned on Saturday for...


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Athenian Players: April 2019

3/7/2019

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The Athenian Players Present
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

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​Athens, AL – The Athenian Players invite you to experience the marvelously creative tale of Hamlet through the eyes of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two hapless minor characters in Shakespeare’s iconic play.
Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead tells their version of the story as the pair stumble their way in and out of the action of Hamlet.

In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to...


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Calhoun: 2019 Writers' Conference

3/4/2019

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Calhoun to host 13th annual Writers’ Conference; nationally-recognized Poet Kevin Young to be featured artist

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Decatur, AL -- Calhoun Community College today announced that the college will host its 13th Annual Writers’ Conference, Thursday, March 7, 2019.   Featured writer for this year’s event is Kevin Young, New Yorker Magazine poetry editor, author and poet.  Young also currently serves as director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and is widely regarded as one of the leading poets of his generation.

An editor, essayist, and curator, Young’s books of poetry include:


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ASU - Andy Leftwich & Friends Concert

3/1/2019

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Andy Leftwich & Friends Coming to Athens State

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​Athens, AL – Andy Leftwich & Friends will be coming to Athens State University as part of the Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Concert Series. The concert will be the second of the four-part series that leads up to the 2019 Fiddlers Convention in October, allowing bluegrass lovers to enjoy the sounds of old-time music throughout the year. The event will be held on Thursday, April 11 at 7:00 PM in McCandless Hall.
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Andy, a four-time Grammy winning instrumentalist, brings with him...


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