Gardendale News

From left, Allyson Crenshaw, Roxie Faulkner and Jillian Beasley, all 12, practice feeding babies during Babysitter's Boot Camp, a two-day program offered by the American Red Cross that teaches a range of skils, from feeding and holding babies to constructing a splint or a sling to interviewing for a job.

Randall Tharp of Gardendale, Ala., won the Walmart Bass Fishing League Empire Division tournament on Lake Champlain Saturday with a five-bass catch weighing 22 pounds, 15 ounces.

Review of Bill Hybels, Holy Discontent: Fueling the Fire that Ignites Personal Vision.

Publix will break ground on a Gardendale location this summer. My co-worker Dana Jaffe tells of the good news for north Jefferson County residents in an article appearing in today's Birmingham News North Community News section.

The owner of the Comfort Suites in Daphne has a lot of cleaning up to do! Early Saturday morning, a hotel guest activated the building's sprinkler system when he got a call from a man who identified himself as an alarm company technician.

America's Thrift Stores said it will open a location in Gardendale this month. Located in the Food World shopping center on Decatur Highway, it will be its eighth store in Central Alabama and its 14th in the Southeast, said a news release.

A view of the Jefferson County Courthouse from the center of Linn Park. "We will be getting plans in place to close the satellites and reduce our work force," Commission President Bettye Fine Collins said Saturday in an interview with The Birmingham News.

Jefferson County may have to slash it's budget after the House took no action on the Occupational Tax Bill Friday.

Residents line up after the new Jefferson County courthouse annex opened in June 2006 in Gardendale.

The Anniston Community Education Foundation is the recipient of the Whitney M. Young Jr.

The highlight of the Magnolia Festival in Gardendale this afternoon was the Pooch Parade, where the dogs came dressed for the occasion.

When Linda Brock strolls through her garden each morning, coffee cup in hand, she sees more than the blossoming azaleas, hydrangeas, dogwood and native wildflowers.

C. Holmes, Gardendale, wanted to buy a small print of Phillips High School and one of Ed Salem's, both by Carl Salter.

MAKING FAIRY HOUSES WED 2-4 p.m. Aldridge Botanical Gardens, 3530 Lorna Road, Hoover.

A 17-year-old Gardendale boy was airlifted to UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, Wednesday night after a wreck in northern Jefferson County.

Investors are more likely to be interested in buying debt from a new authority led by the governor than from Jefferson County, said Sen.

THE ISSUE: Only one of a half-dozen sewer bills in the Legislature would assist Jefferson County through its crisis.

By Tiffany Green STAFF WRITER A new Bible study is sweeping across Cullman. It has grown from a handful of people meeting in a living room to more than 200 in a few months.

Students at Gardendale High School will be able to return to classes Friday, March 27, 2009.

Gardendale High School Principal Anna Vacca says a health class was practicing taking blood pressures when the tube containing mercury broke, and the mercury spilled on to the floor.