When Burke Hospice and Palliative Care and Caldwell Hospice and Palliative Care merged in the spring of 2021, they chose to rename the hospice and palliative care organization, AMOREM. The
The Fort Payne Board of Education reluctantly accepted Superintendent Jim Cunninghamâs announcement that he plans to retire, effective October 1.
Board members offered their gratitude for his 36 years of service to the city schools, including the past 18 at the helm, as they began the search for a successor.
âThis has been the best thing thatâs ever happened to me because we have a great school system in a great community, working with outstanding board members, and I really appreciate that,â Cunningham said. âOur employees are fantastic, as you know.â
Board attorney Rocky Watson and Board President Jimmy Durham offered comments praising Cunninghamâs forward-looking leadership to build campus facilities and tech infrastructure that have resulted in academic and athletic excellence, including success in keeping children learning and reopening schools despite the many challenges of doing so during a pandemic.
When Midvale Speedway opened in 1953, it was one of three race tracks in Tuscarawas County, but it has long outlasted its other two competitors.
In the 1950s, fans of auto racing could attend events on Thursday evenings at a track in Strasburg operated by the Strasburg Volunteer Fire Department, on Saturday nights at the Tuscarawas County Fairgrounds in Dover and then on Sundays in Midvale. Stock car racing has really taken this county, as well as the state, by storm in the past couple of years, and now with the third track being built in the county and the Tappan Speedway Inc. making its grand opening this Sunday, local fans of stock car racing have more than an adequate number of tracks to watch the throttle jockeys manhandle their souped up autos, the Uhrichsville Evening Chronicle commented on June 12, 1953, several weeks before the track at Midvale opened.