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Florence is the largest and principal city of the "Quad Cities," more commonly known as "The Shoals," which also includes the cities of Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia in Colbert County and had a population of 148,779 as of the 2020 census. Florence is considered northwestern Alabama's primary economic hub.
The TimesDaily was founded in 1889 as The Florence Times and published its first edition on July 4, 1890. A sister paper, The Tri-Cities Daily , was founded in 1907. [ 4 ] The merger of these two newspapers in 1967, [ 5 ] which published for a time as The Florence Times—Tri-Cities Daily , gives The TimesDaily its distinctive name.
The Quad Cities is a region of five cities (originally Tri-Cities, later four, see History) in the U.S. states of Iowa and Illinois: Davenport and Bettendorf (the fifth to be included) in southeastern Iowa, and Rock Island, Moline and East Moline (the fourth to be included) in northwestern Illinois.
Voted #1 Weekly Newspaper in Alabama by the Alabama Press Association. [citation needed] Cherokee County Herald: Centre: Weekly Chilton County News: Clanton: Weekly The Citizen of East Alabama: Phenix City: 1957 Weekly R.M. Greene Largest weekly newspaper in Alabama Clanton Advertiser: Clanton: Daily Clark County Democrat: Grove Hill 1856 ...
Sister city Florence, Alabama, is frequently referred to as "the birthplace of the Blues". W. C. Handy was born in Florence and is generally regarded as the "Father of the Blues". Every year since 1982, the W. C. Handy Music Festival is held in the Florence/Sheffield/Muscle Shoals area, featuring blues, jazz, country, gospel, rock music and R&B.
Three local daily newspapers serve the Quad Cities, all of them morning editions. The Quad-City Times, based in Davenport, is circulated throughout the Quad Cities metropolitan area, including Davenport, Bettendorf and Scott County in Iowa; and Moline, East Moline, Rock Island and Rock Island County in Illinois.
However, it retained viewership in northwest Alabama (Florence, Sheffield, Muscle Shoals, Tuscumbia and areas known as "The Shoals" in recent times and referred to as "The Quad Cities" years ago) by offering local newscasts, which for most of the station's 40-plus years were the only newscasts concerned specifically with northwestern Alabama ...
It publishes 72 daily newspapers in 25 states, [2] and more than 350 weekly, classified, and specialty publications. [3] Lee Enterprises was founded in 1890 by Alfred Wilson Lee [ 2 ] and is based in Davenport, Iowa .