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Tuggle's plans and vision live on.

Dr. Larry Tuggle always had a plan. Those plans included rebuilding a downtown building from its ashes. Those plans included helping build downtown Alexander City pride. Those plans included installing hazard buoys on Lake Martin. And those plans included keeping a group of five on schedule for a month-long motorcycle trip to Alaska and back.

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Students design Decatur with the iHeartDecatur Art Contest

Decatur is celebrating its bicentennial birthday and National Youth Art Month all at the same time! The Designing Decatur Activity Booklet is a coloring book published by the City of Decatur's Historic Preservation Commission. The book highlights 20 of the City's unique architectural icons.

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Downtown Alexander City will survive

Downtown Alexander City has seen its ups and downs but its spirit has always kept it going.

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New life for old downtown Athens buildings

A group of friends who graduated from Athens High in 1982 jumped at the chance to buy a vacant century-old building in downtown Athens, with plans to renovate the structure that housed a pool hall for decades.

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Local Main Street directors share updates with business leaders

The Women's Business Council heard updates from several of Shelby County's Main Street Alabama cities during the group's February virtual meeting.

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