Here's your local news at a glance for Tuesday, the 27th of October.
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🏘️ Community
Flatwoods Fancy and Flatwoods Fellas offers free donated shoes, clothing, and toiletries to students and family members, letting kids who arrive in ill-fitting clothes choose items that fit (Flatwoods Elementary School, Northport).
🎭 Culture
The Gorgas House Museum is using ghost stories to teach history with the exhibit (Calling the Spirits In: Spiritualism in America), on display through Oct.
28. Its Otherworldly Encounters Haunting at the Museums event occurs today from 5 to 8 p.m., with haunted tours and student-curated displays.
🎓 Education
The Saban Center received $251,939.59 from the Alabama STEM Council to expand hands-on science, technology, engineering, and math programs with staff training, curriculum, classroom and outreach materials, and program staffing.
Its planned downtown Tuscaloosa campus will bring together the state STEM hub, Tuscaloosa Children’s Theatre, and IGNITE.
🏥 Health
The UA College of Community Health Sciences is launching a rural EMS system after receiving $1.76 million from the Alabama Rural Health Transformation Grant Program to equip participating agencies with telemedicine, connectivity, training, and clinical protocols to treat eligible patients on scene and reduce ER trips.
Eagles' Wings opened Virginia Stables at Eagles Pointe to offer horse-riding therapy for adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities, and organizers say trainers will work with the two horses, Louie and Dixie, for about three months before rides begin for the nonprofit's 40 clients.
🏈 Sports
Oxford High center Xavier Endicott committed to Alabama's 2027 class, a 6-foot-4, 280-pound interior lineman who made multiple visits and was recruited primarily by offensive line coach Adrian Klemm and will join Stafford Willis as an early addition to the Tide's offensive line group.
Alabama defensive lineman Fatutoa Henry was named the SEC Defensive Line Player of the Week after his four-tackle, two-sack, two-tackle-for-loss performance in last Saturday's 31-20 win over Texas A&M.
Alabama is on a bye this week and will travel to Baton Rouge on Saturday, Nov. 7 to face No. 15 LSU.
Alabama will play LSU at Tiger Stadium (Baton Rouge) at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov.
7, and the game will air on ABC.
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