Vote for Michael  Johnson for the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award.  We really want Selma to represent.  Vote as often as you choose or vote at least once a day until the campaign is over.

Dallas County EMA sounds the tornado sirens the first Tuesday of the month at 10:00AM.

Vote for Michael  Johnson for the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award.  We really want Selma to represent.  Vote as often as you choose or vote at least once a day until the campaign is over.

Vote for Michael  Johnson for the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award.  We really want Selma to represent.  Vote as often as you choose or vote at least once a day until the campaign is over.

Vote for Michael  Johnson for the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award.  We really want Selma to represent.  Vote as often as you choose or vote at least once a day until the campaign is over.

The Selma City Council Work Session will be held Thursday, January 4, 2018, at 5:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber to hear citizens request and to discuss business items.

Vote for Michael  Johnson for the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award.  We really want Selma to represent.  Vote as often as you choose or vote at least once a day until the campaign is over.

Vote for Michael  Johnson for the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award.  We really want Selma to represent.  Vote as often as you choose or vote at least once a day until the campaign is over.

Vote for Michael  Johnson for the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award.  We really want Selma to represent.  Vote as often as you choose or vote at least once a day until the campaign is over.

The  Selma City Council will hold a meeting on Tuesday, January 9, 2018, at 5:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber. This meeting will be held to discuss city business. 

Ages 6-14

Workshop location: Dallas County Family Resource Center (in the Alagasco Building)

Address: 10096 Alabama Highway 14 West, Selma, AL 36701

Contact Information: Contact Stephanie Tarver at 334-327-3293 or email at

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the Local, an experimental food cooperative in development in Selma, is hosting "NDORH (National Day of Racial Healing) Finale Concert on the River" at the Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth and Reconciliation to give folks a taste of what the Local is hoping to do in some form or another in Selma: to mash-up food and culture in ways that bring more good flavor, culture, and interesting entertainment to downtown Selma. There is limited seating, with a suggested donation to the Local for the evening of $5 online and $7 at the door, which includes 4 small plates (of possible menu items from the Local), tea, water, and a ticket to the concert (please RSVP here on FB and we will aim to post a link soon so you can purchase tickets ahead of time via Eventbrite). 

Our musical guests are described in more detail below, but we will be serving a series of small plates of some dishes we are experimenting with, as they bring us music, conversation, and a slideshow around the intersection of Japanese concentration camps in the U.S. in the 1940s and the Civil Rights Movement. As a part of that, they will share some about Kiyoshi Kuromia, who was born in the same concentration camp where one of our guest’s (Erin Aoyama) mother was incarcerated, and who went on to protest Vietnam, as well as to march in Selma and be a leading LGBT / AIDS activist before he died in 2000 (more on Kuromia here). This is part of a series of events commemorating both MLK Day (Mon., 1/15) and the National Racial Day of Healing (Tues., 1/16). See the flyer posted in the discussion below for more details on the other events Sun., Mon. and Tues. of that week...

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More on our musical guests:

Join internationally acclaimed songwriter and violinist, Kishi Bashi, in an intimate acoustic setting, as he shares his songs in a stripped down, acoustic incarnation. He will also show footage and share stories about his documentary about the Japanese American Incarceration and American identity (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/omoiyari-a-songfilm-by-kishi-bashi-music-film). 

Kishi Bashi will be joined by songwriter and scholar Julian Saporiti (https://nonoboymusic.tumblr.com/about) and Erin Aoyama, whose grandmother was incarcerated at Heart Mountain, one of the ten concentration camps where Japanese Americans were imprisoned during WW2. Saporiti and Aoyama, both PhD students at Brown University, will share work from the No-No Boy project, which turns stories of Japanese Incarceration into songs.

Atlanta based cello maestro Takenobu will also join in this very special evening of music making, food, and conversation. This concert is part of a musical and research oriented trip which will take the group to Arkansas, where there were two Japanese Incarceration camps.”

The Selma Redevelopment Authority

will hold its regular meeting of the Board of Directors

at 4:00 pm in the conference room of ArtsRevive in the Carneal Building, located at 3 Church Street, Selma, AL 36701.

These meetings are open to the public. For further information, please contact Juanda Maxwell, Chair at

Councilman Johnnie Leashore will host an Administrative Committee Meeting on Friday, January 19, 2018, at 1:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber to discuss increasing of the Ad Valorem Tax.

Workshop location: Dallas County Family Resource Center (in the Alagasco Building)

Address: 10096 Alabama Highway 14 West, Selma, AL 36701

Contact Information: Contact Stephanie Tarver at 334-327-3293 or email at

  Lunch at the Library “Quilts and Crockpots-A Winter Warm up at Your Library”

Creations by Jamie Alvey. Enjoy Sara Bush’s special stew and Leigh Johnson’s yummy soup.

Seating is limited to 40.

Lunch begins at noon. The program begins at 12:30. Lunch $8.00.

Reservations at 334-874-1725 www.selmalibrary.org

Full band. Old hymns. New music. 

$10 in advance, $12 at the door.

Matthew Smith is a Nashville-based singer-songwriter who writes brand new music to centuries-old hymn texts. He is a founding member of the Indelible Grace community, whose work has drawn acclaim across denominational lines and is used in churches around the world. Born out of a college ministry, the reimagined hymns have found wide acceptance both among college students and the church at large, joining people who desire to honor tradition with those who want a modern musical approach. His latest album is QuietHymns.

Tickets Available www.itickets.com 

Rural Health Medical Program, Inc., located at 101 Park Place is celebrating its Groundbreaking Ceremony

at 9:30 am.

Congresswoman Terri Sewell will be the guest speaker.

For more information, contact Tashunta Moore at 334-874-7428 ext. 132. 

The State of the City Address

from 10:00 am-12:00 pm at the

Selma Interpretive Center, located at 2 Broad Street.

RSVP to 334-327-4980 or

Councilwoman Angela Benjamin will host a Public Buildings Committee Meeting on Tuesday, January 30, 2018, at 5:30 p.m. in the Council Chamber to discuss annexation, auctioning public property, and other public building concerns.