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LeaderSports Featured Athlete: Sam Higgins, Bevill State Community College

Words by Jenny Lynn Davis | Images by Justin Hunter When Sam Higgins first picked up a tennis racket, he wasn’t following in anyone’s footsteps. No childhood tournaments, no family legacy in the sport—just a curiosity that led him to the court during his sophomore year at Austin High School in Decatur, Alabama. Now in

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Sweet Grown Alabama Expands Program to Promote Alabama Gulf Seafood

Montgomery, Ala. – The marketing and promotion of Alabama’s seafood industry has found a new home with Sweet Grown Alabama. Sweet Grown Alabama, the state’s agricultural branding program, has successfully promoted Alabama-grown produce and proteins since 2019 through an online searchable database, robust advertising, and events held statewide. Adding Alabama Gulf seafood to its portfolio

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Bevill State’s Dylan Schloerb Named Semi-Finalist for National Transfer Scholarship

Bevill State Community College (BSCC) is proud to announce that Dylan Schloerb, a sophomore in the engineering transfer track, has been named a semi-finalist for the 2025 Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship. This highly competitive scholarship recognizes the nation’s top community college students who plan to transfer to a four-year institution to complete their

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Get to Know: Ashleigh Keeton, HR Specialist – Pinnacle Bank

Words by Anna Duncan Owens | Images by Ryan McGill For Ashleigh Keeton, banking isn’t just about transactions and spreadsheets—it’s about people. As the Human Resources Specialist at Pinnacle Bank, she works behind the scenes to support employees and keep things running smoothly. But banking wasn’t always the plan. Her path wasn’t mapped out from

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Mia Henslee Earns First Runner-Up at Youth of the Year Competition

Words by Jenny Lynn Davis | Images by Justin Hunter Carbon Hill High School sophomore Mia Henslee recently stood before an audience of 300 distinguished guests at the Boys and Girls Club Youth of the Year celebration, held at The Club in Birmingham, speaking about resilience, opportunity, and the lessons passed down from her mother.

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