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CommUnity Thanksgiving not returning

The CommUnity Thanksgiving of Etowah, which fed over 10,900 community members last year, is set to dissolve its charity prior to this holiday season. “After 27 years of serving our community with Alabama’s largest Thanksgiving Day meal, serving nearly 11,000 plates last year, the board has made the tough decision to end the event,” Craig […]

Hardin Center for Cultural Arts presents Farese

The Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts is proud to present Add|Mix|Fold, a solo exhibition by acclaimed photographer and social entrepreneur Nancy Richards Farese, on view from October 17, 2025, through January 10, 2026.  Organized by the Gadsden Cultural Arts Foundation, the exhibition examines the ways visual narratives, particularly photography, intersect with memory, culture, […]

Gadsden prepares for the final First Friday of the year

On Friday, Oct. 3, Downtown Gadsden will wrap up the 2025 First Friday season. It’s a great opportunity to enjoy a fall evening downtown while supporting local retail shops, restaurants, and The Gadsden Museum of Art and The Cultural Arts Center. Multiple locations along the street will feature live music performances from local and regional […]

Emblem commits $200,000 to Challenger Center

Emblem Credit Union announced a gift of $200,000 to Challenger Learning Center of Northeast Alabama, supporting its mission to ignite a passion for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in middle school students across the region. The donation will sponsor the Center’s Spacecraft experience for the next ten years – offering an immersive, hands-on simulation […]