A wind turbine in Texas is expected to power the dreams of Hokes Bluff High School students in years to come, thanks to a scholarship endowment from Hokes Bluff alumnus Don Street.
Street, professor emeritus of economics at Auburn University, created the endowment in honor of his late wife, Dr. Mary Gardner Street.
For years, the Hokes Bluff Golden Eagles 50 year-plus alumni have funding scholarships through the Legends program. People may donate $100 and recognize a notable Hokes Bluff graduate, with the money doing toward scholarships.
Member Karen Owen said the group got a letter from Street, Class of 1951, who wanted to do a fundraiser.
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Even though the coronavirus pandemic rages on, continuing to affect more and more people around the world, life continues to go on and plans for the future continue to be made.
That’s the case in Hokes Bluff, where Mayor Scott Reeves recently gave an update on how things are looking, now and in the future, for the Etowah County municipality.
According to Reeves, Hokes Bluff has plenty to look forward to in the near future.
“We do have a new business prospect that wants to locate across from our shopping center,” he said. “Some may not know, but this year the Etowah County Board of Education will begin construction on a new elementary school, and we are excited about that project. We have a new fire apparatus that will be arriving sometime in the early spring, a much-needed addition to our fire fleet.
Tom Lankford, civil rights reporter secretly in league with police, dies at 85 Matt Schudel Tom Lankford, a journalist who covered the civil rights movement in the troubled city of Birmingham, Ala., while also conducting secret surveillance for his publisher and local police authorities in the 1960s, died Dec. 31 at a hospital in Gadsden, Ala. He was 85. His family announced the death in a notice in the Gadsden Times newspaper. His former newspaper, the Birmingham News, reported that he died of covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Mr. Lankford began working for the News, then an afternoon newspaper, in 1959, when the civil rights movement was gaining strength, along with White resistance to it. For several years, he seemed to be everywhere in the South, covering major civil rights flash points.