Elected officials and residents in Northport gathered Monday to celebrate reopening a community center that seemed doomed for demolition less than a year ago.
A divided Northport City Council voted 3-1 to appoint a local businessman to fill the District 5 seat vacated by council president Jeff Hogg last month.
Christy Bobo, the former president pro tempore of the Northport City Council, has assumed the role after the shock Thursday resignation of embattled president Jeff Hogg.
It wasn't clear if the city wanted to mend fences or burn bridges Monday in a bizarre attempt to keep the Kentuck Festival of the Arts from leaving its longtime home in Northport.
Northport Mayor John Hinton is excited by what the city council has accomplished in the three years since they were first elected and even more so by what he expects is soon to come.
A popular Alabama steakhouse will begin work on a new location in Northport after the city council there approved a tax incentive package to attract them Monday.