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Author says Southern baking is “possibly the first and finest style of baking America has ever known.” When cookbook author Anne Byrn was learning the fine art of pastry making from the top chefs in Paris in the 1980s, she still longed for the taste...
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Social Media Sensation Kyle Lybarger Helps Us See the Grasslands for the Trees Next time you spot a weedy patch on the roadside, slow down and pay attention. You may be in the presence of an ancient and vanishing Alabama ecosystem or a wildly popular...
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A Victim of Time, Weather, Erosion By Emmett Burnett With binoculars focused on a tiny plot of sand off the coast of Dauphin Island, a lighthouse comes into focus. Even from three miles away, one can see the changes. Sand Island is hardly an island...
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Drive-In Movies

Get in the Trunk! I would guess most kids growing up today wouldn’t want anything that their parents had. We had three channels. They have about

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A Love of Maritime History

Correction: The print version of this story contained an error in the first paragraph. John Sledge debarked from Blakeley State Park’s Delta Explorer cruise vessel,

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Sauces, dips, and dressings

Food prepared and photographed by  Brooke Echols Cook of the Month: Kim Johns, PowerSouth Energy Cooperative When Kim Johns’ children were much younger, they often found

Worth the Drive

Electric Cooperatives

Since 1936 electric co-ops have built 2.5 million miles of power lines across rural America – long enough to reach from the earth to the moon five and a half times.

From booming suburbs to remote rural farming communities, Alabama’s electric cooperatives are energy providers and engines of economic development. Statewide, electric cooperatives serve more than 1 million Alabamians in their homes, businesses, farms and schools. Their coverage spans approximately 70% of Alabama’s landmass.

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Alabama Rural Electric Association (AREA)

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Worth the Drive: Bella Vista

Bella Vista by the Creek
153 W. Main St., Prattville, AL 36067

334-356-6863

Hours: 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday-Wednesday;

10:30 to 3 p.m. and 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday

Find them on Facebook @BellaVista19

Outdoor

Crustacean Catching

Handlining for crabs can provide incredible family fun A family crabbing adventure can make great memories as well as provide delicious meals for little cost. People can

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Spinning Tails, Not Tales

One day decades ago, Dad wanted to make a quick morning fishing trip before everyone else arrived at the pond we called the Ol’ Swimming

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May 2025

Crustacean Catching

Handlining for crabs can provide incredible family fun A family crabbing adventure can make great memories as well as provide delicious meals

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