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Athens and Florence Walk Away With Awards During Main Street Alabama Awards Of Excellence Conference

MONTGOMERY ─ Lt. Governor Kay Ivey and Mary Helmer, President and State Coordinator of Main Street Alabama announced the winners of the Main Street Alabama Awards of Excellence this afternoon during the aLABama Downtown Laboratory in Montgomery.

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What killed small town Alabama, and how we're bringing it back to life

For the most part, interstates and the Internet are useful, convenient tools, but over the last few decades, they helped decimate America's small downtowns. Alabama was no exception.

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Ideas for Oxford’s downtown flow at Wednesday meeting

OXFORD -- A chalkboard in the front of the meeting room inside the Oxford Civic Center Wednesday quickly filled with words attendees wrote denoting what they’d like downtown Oxford to become.

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Oxford Main Street project gets feedback, visit from the governor

OXFORD, Alabama -- Oxford residents tonight spent about two hours trying to put into words what they want the city's Main Street downtown revitalization program to accomplish.

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Main Street Alabama visits Oxford

A team from Main Street Alabama is spending three days visiting one of its newest members. Oxford was one of three cities selected for the program this year and an evaluation team is currently visiting the area.

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