Volunteers lend their hands to nonprofits

06/18/11 Shannon Jenkins, director of marketing and communications for the United Way of East Central Alabama, said the signature event is in its 17th year. Nearly 270 volunteers signed on for the day.

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Kitchens hosts 12th annual youth football camp

06/18/11 More than 260 kids from Etowah County and the surrounding areas showed up Saturday morning at Gadsden City High School's Titan Stadium for the Freddie Kitchens youth football camp.

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Action Heroes: Hundreds of volunteers visit Etowah County agencies

06/17/11 More than 400 volunteers swarmed Etowah County on Friday, bringing helping attitudes and elbow grease to United Way agencies.

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Riverview first Alabama hospital to offer minimally invasive knee procedure

06/16/11 Riverview Regional Medical Center in Gadsden has become the first hospital in Alabama to offer MAKOplasty, a new, minimally invasive partial knee resurfacing procedure used to treat early- to mid-stage osteoarthritis of the knee.

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Sports Sound Off: Birmingham News readers' opinions

06/12/11 I appreciate that The Birmingham News sports department lends a voice to amateurs by offering readers an opportunity to make predictions of how the SEC football teams will perform during the upcoming season.

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Newspapers, Schools, Breaking News, Sports, Weather, Alabama, Pelham, Alabaster, Calera, Hoover, Birmingham

06/12/11 Cahaba Valley Elks member Leon Johnston presents the Star Spangled Banner June 12 during a Flag Day celebration at the Pelham Civic Complex. (Reporter Photo/Neal Wagner)

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Kitchens to host his annual football camp

06/12/11 Freddie Kitchens expects some 200 to 300 youngsters ages 7 to 17 to take part in his annual football camp Saturday.

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Greenwaves Pate named Class 3A Coach of the Year

06/12/11 Jonathan Pate, who won his third AHSAA championship with the Gordo High School baseball team, has been named the AHSAA Class 3A Coach of the Year by the Alabama Sports Writers Association.

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ASWA announces all-state baseball team

06/12/11 A glimpse at the Alabama Sports Writers Association All-State Baseball Team for 2011:

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Section's Heath McRae chosen honorable mention all-state baseball

06/12/11 Section's Heath McRae has been named a Class 2A All-State honorable mention by the Alabama Sports Writers Association.

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Area athletes make All-State baseball team

06/12/11 Westbrook's Jacob Mayfield was one of 10 area athletes to be named to the first team in their respective classifications. Another 18 area athletes were selected honorable mention.

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Indian Hills Country Club hosts USTA junior tournament

06/12/11 More than 50 players from Alabama, Georgia and Florida are competing this weekend for championships at the Indian Hills Country Club Junior Invitational Tennis Tournament, a Level 4 USTA sanctioned event.

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List of APA winners

06/12/11 Division A: 1st place, The Birmingham News; 2nd, The Tuscaloosa News; 3rd, The Press-Register (Mobile). Division B: 1st, Opelika-Auburn News; 2nd, The News Courier (Athens); 3rd, The Fort Payne Times-Journal.

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Boaters attending RiverFest should take high-traffic precautions

06/07/11 RiverFest has become a big event both on and off the water. Scott Hassell, chief deputy of corrections at the Etowah County Sheriff's Office, oversees the department's marine division. The division will be assisting Alabama Marine Police officers Friday and Saturday on the Coosa River for one of the biggest festivals in Northeast Alabama.

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Latest Alabama news, sports, business and entertainment

06/05/11 Associated Press - June 5, 2011 2:44 PM ET Alabama gambling trial offers peek inside politics MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The public will get a graphic, behind-the-scenes...

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STEM camp coming to Gadsden State

06/04/11 Juniors and seniors from area high schools will attend the sixth annual Consortium for Alabama Regional Center for Automotive Manufacturing-sponsored STEM Camp June 27 through July 1 at the East Broad Campus of Gadsden State Community College.

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Woman hopes to reunite quilt with owner

06/04/11 The day after the April 27 tornadoes ravaged Alabama and the South, Gadsden resident Donna Skaggs and her two grandchildren searched through debris that was left by the storms in her backyard.

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Former Madison mayoral assistant swaps business attire for casual as owner of Tennessee Valley Marine

06/04/11 Dressed in gray shorts and a navy blue polo shirt, Taylor Edge looked at home escorting two visitors through the gargantuan building housing his two water craft businesses, Rescue One and Tennessee Valley Marine. He should. His family has been in the boating business for nearly 20 years, dating back to 1992 when his grandfather started a marine business in Gadsden where Edge grew up.

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Rock Cats Have 5 Player Transactions Over Holiday Weekend

05/31/11 NEW BRITAIN, CT - The New Britain Rock Cats of the Eastern League had five player transactions over the just-concluded Memorial Day weekend. RHP Cole DeVries, the 26-year-old bullpen specialist out of the University of Minnesota, has been promoted to Triple-A Rochester in the International League.

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Worship Guide for May 28

05/27/11 A listing of local services, Vacation Bible Schools, singings and miscellaneous church-related activities in the area.

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