(RNS) After three Russian Orthodox Church priests were expelled from Bulgaria on charges of espionage last month, their former church is at the center of a diplomatic rift between the Russian and Bulgarian governments and an ecclesiastical one between the two countries’ Orthodox churches.
The former Bloomington YMCA at the corner of Washington and East streets in downtown Bloomington served as a training spot for aerialists and performers.
To celebrate Anniston’s 140th anniversary with the same enthusiasm that infused the city’s Diamond Jubilee festivities of 1958, Main Street Anniston is throwing a party and everyone is invited.
Built in 1914 by the Lynchburg Foundry Company of Virginia, a pipe plant located in northwest Anniston that operated until 1944 was given a new lease on life in 1948.