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Annual Citywide Clean-up Day

Submitted by Sarah Broadway on Sunday, April 21st, 12:45 pm
Annual Citywide Clean-up Day

Organizations, scouts, businesses, and individuals are needed to help pick up littered streets at the Annual Citywide Clean-up Day. 

Volunteers will be supplied with vests, bags, gloves, breakfast, and lunch. 

Groups can call ahead (256-760-6494) for a designated area or meet us at the Florence-Lauderdale Coliseum on Saturday morning at 8:00 a.m. 

Help Keep Florence Beautiful!  Join in the fun!

Source: City of Florence

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Curbside Experiment

Submitted by WAFF Web Staff
Thursday, March 28th, 2013, 9:08am
Curbside Experiment

The Decatur Daily
Curbside Experiment
The Decatur Daily
FLORENCE — Blue carts will line the curbs of the city on trash and recycling collection days this spring, but they won't be seen on every street. The city's Recycling Department is using a grant from the Alabama Department of Environmental Management ..... Read More

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Sport fishing survey underway

Submitted by Mike Brown, Area man
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013, 1:13pm
Sport fishing survey underway

Muscle Shoals, AL (WAFF) - As spring comes creeping into the Tennessee Valley, anglers around Alabama are preparing to his the water. The Tennessee Valley Authority is working hard to make sure they've got something to catch.

TVA crews have been conducting their annual sport fish health surveys over the past week. They started at Wilson Reservoir in Muscle Shoals back on March 12th, and will continue through early May.

The fish are collected using electro-fishing equipment, which gives them a small but harmless shock. The stunned fish are collected, examined, and released back into the water.

Biologists are looking for species, abundance, age, weight and general health.

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River group presses for old landfill cleanup

Submitted by WAFF Web Staff
Tuesday, February 26th, 2013, 10:14am
River group presses for old landfill cleanup

River Group Presses for Old Landfill Cleanup
courierjournal
A polluted spring flows into Cypress Creek which a local group claims is caused by a former landfill in Florence. photo: Charles L. Rose FLORENCE– The nonprofit organization, Tennessee Riverkeeper, has announced its intention to file a federal lawsuit ..... Read More

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Florence council expected to approve contract today for closure of landfill - The Decatur Daily

Submitted by WAFF Web Staff
Tuesday, January 8th, 2013, 12:52pm
Florence council expected to approve contract today for closure of landfill - The Decatur Daily

Florence council expected to approve contract today for closure of landfill
The Decatur Daily
FLORENCE — The long and expensive process of closing and monitoring the city's sanitary landfill could be formalized today. The City Council is expected to approve a contract with Joyce Engineering, of Greensboro, N.C., during today's meeting... Read More

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Hispanic and Women Farmers and Ranchers Claims Process

Submitted by Jim Segina, Photojournalist/VJ
Monday, October 22nd, 2012, 9:49am
Hispanic and Women Farmers and Ranchers Claims Process

USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA,) Rural Development (RD) and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) are holding five public meetings where USDA program updates and the Hispanic and Women Farmers and Ranchers Claims Process will be discussed.  

The 180--day Hispanic and Women Farmers and Ranchers claims filing period opened September 24, 2012, and will close on March 25, 2013.

Below is a list of upcoming USDA public meetings:

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Residents asked to conserve water

Submitted by Bliss Bowman Wade, Digital Content Director
Monday, June 25th, 2012, 11:45am
Residents asked to conserve water

The Florence-Lauderdale Emergency Management Agency says officials at Chisholm heights Water Authority is requesting residents to conserve water until further notice.

They say this is because of the dry weather conditions.

Click here for 100 ways to conserve water.

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