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ALBBAA Announces Winner of 2025 Sporting Dog Photo Contest

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (March 25, 2025) – When Baldwin County resident Ashley Ammons learned about the Alabama Black Belt Adventures’ Best Sporting Dog Contest, she immediately knew the photo she wanted to submit. The photo – showing Fancy, Ammons’ Boykin spaniel, carrying a pheasant during a pheasant shoot sponsored by the Central Alabama Shooting Dog Association (CASDA)

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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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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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Get to Know: Nicole Brackett, Director of Children’s Services – The Adam Bishop Center

Words by Nick Rizzo | Image by Al Blanton Nicole Brackett has always had a heart for working with children. As Director of Children’s Services at the Adam Bishop Center, Northwest Alabama Mental Health Center’s Walker County office for Child and Adolescent Services, she loves the opportunity to give young people hope and the tools

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