Wilcox County News

For the second month in a row, Morgan Countya s unemployment rate dropped while other area counties suffered an increase.

For the first time in months, Covington County's unemployment rate has halted its steady climb upward - " falling 0.5 percent from September to October.

The last time the unemployment rate was 10.9% was in February of 1984. It was a .2% rise from September The county rates ranged from 25.1% in Wilcox County to 7.4% in Shelby County.

The Crane district supports Dallas, Perry and Wilcox County for the Tukabatchee Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, a program partnered with the United Way.

ThyssenKrupp Steel USA and ThyssenKrupp Stainless USA will hold a jobs fair today from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. at Wilcox Central High School in Camden.

LOWNDESBORO -- Why should wetland in Lowndes County be worth $285 an acre less than similar prop erty in neighboring Wilcox County? That's a question Lowndes County resident Rick Pate and several of his farming friends are asking.

MONTGOMERY a ' A $25,000 Community Development Block Grant to the Wilcox County Commission will see construction of a new senior center at Gee's Bend.

The state of Alabama's unemployment rate continues an upward trend jumping another four-tenths of a percent in September.

I knew it had to be here. I drove back and forth, up and down highways and narrow trails in the tiny place back in a corner of Wilcox County.

Recent rains continue raising water levels along the Tombigbee River. Forecasters at the National Weather Service expect the Tombigbee River to flood on Wednesday, affecting Choctaw, Washington and Clarke counties in southwest Alabama.

The August unemployment rate remained flat in Morgan County, with improvement in Limestone County and worsening conditions in Lawrence County, according to figures released Friday.

The August unemployment rate remained flat in Morgan County, with improvement in Limestone County and worsening conditions in Lawrence County, according to figures released Friday.

Some believe quilting began when the first settlers arrived in America. The Gee's Bend Quilters Collective was established 2003 by more than 50 quilters from Gee's Bend in Wilcox County.

A team of 17 academics -- historians and archeologists, folklorists and anthropologists, geographers and geologists -- believe they are zeroing in on the holy grail of Southeastern archeology: the central Alabama site of the battle of Mabila.

The state of Alabama plans to spend more than $6 million in federal stimulus money in an effort to control a pesky, grass-like weed that much like kudzu has spread across the state.

Traffic flows through the town of Pine Hill, Ala., Thursday, July 9, 2009. Pine Hill, population about 1,000, has been dying for years as gas stations, restaurants and the town's only motel have closed along a state highway that parallels the railroad tracks through town.

A West Alabama judge finds himself facing a judge Wednesday. The Alabama Court of the Judiciary is deliberating in the case of Hale County Circuit Judge Marvin Wiggins who is accused of not stepping aside in a case involving three of his relatives.

After Jean Harmon read a Press-Register article about economic woes in Wilcox County, she said she could not just forget about it.

The Alabama Department of Industrial Relations released its most recent figures on the state's unemployment rate from June -- and the forecast says things will remain cloudy for state residents.

Shelby County's unemployment rate for the month of June was 7.6 percent, more than double June 2008's unemployment rate of 3.4 percent, according to the Alabama Department of Industrial Relations.