Keep Dangers & Costs in Check With winter’s arrival, most of us alternate between hunker-down mode, staying inside to keep cozy, and holiday havoc, busily shopping and transforming our homes into brightly lit, flashing, fabulously festive feasts for the eyes.…
Lighting Festivities Begin After Christmas Parade Enjoy a merry evening of beautiful sights, holiday sounds, and tasty treats when Stevenson City Park lights up to welcome the yuletide season on Saturday, December 13. Carols will fill the air, and both…
Cook Up a Safe Thanksgiving Count Amps While Counting Your Blessings If your house is the gathering spot this Thanksgiving, electricity is not likely to be the top thing on your mind. However, prepping a feast for family and guests…
Xelevate Uses Site for Drone Training, Innovation For half a century, the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant in Hollywood has been a source of local curiosity and speculation. After 14 years of construction, the Tennessee Valley Authority halted the project in 1988,…
Grand Marshal Betty Ann Ballard Lights The Way Winter Wonderland is the theme of the annual Bridgeport Christmas parade, set for Saturday, December 6. The parade, which starts at 4:30 p.m., will be a lighted event for the second consecutive…
Moody Brick Owners Put Their Own Touches on Historic Home Long shrouded in mystery, the Harris-Moody Brick house still stands roughly 180 years after its construction, having survived time, war, fires, vandals, and ghost hunters. Today, visitors turning into the…
North Alabama Electric Cooperative (NAEC) opened its first office in 1940 in downtown Stevenson and finished its first year of operations with 126 miles of power lines and 1,026 members. As state Representative Mike Kirkland reminded cooperative members and employees…
Campers Pampered at Graham Farm & Nature Center 2 eye-catching Conestoga wagons might make Graham Farm and Nature Center visitors wonder if they stumbled upon a campsite along the Oregon Trail instead of in Alabama’s Paint Rock Valley. But other…
Bridgeport Span Is a Modern Link to the Past Bridgeport keeps its rich history alive through Trail of Tears events, battle reenactments and artifacts within the beautifully preserved Depot Museum built in 1917. But the city’s 21st-century restoration of its…
TVA Rewards Educators’ Energetic Efforts The Kate Duncan Smith Daughters of the American Revolution School will be making energy-efficiency improvements to its historic campus with $210,000 in grants awarded through the Tennessee Valley Authority’s EnergyRight School Uplift program. KDS was…