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The Daily Mountain Eagle is a daily newspaper servicing the Jasper, Alabama area. The paper is owned by Paxton Media Group and operated locally. It is the closest daily newspaper that provides information to the locals in the immediate area, after The Birmingham News ceased publishing and converted to digital-only. While the newspaper focuses ...
Loren “Vaughn” Dixon, 73, of Plymouth, died Dec. 20 at home. He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and lived in the Tri-Cities area for 48 years. He was a retired mechanic for the Kennewick School ...
Jasper is a city in and the county seat of [2] Walker County, Alabama, United States. Its population was 14,352 as of the 2010 census. [ 3 ] Named in honor of Sergeant William Jasper , an American Revolutionary War hero, Jasper was settled around 1815 and incorporated on August 18, 1886.
In 2003 Jasper's FBC purchased the facility previously owned by Collins-Burke Funeral Home. The building now houses a small sanctuary, as well as meeting rooms. Prior to their current facility, JFBC youth met in a church-owned facility next to the Family Life Center.
I Heard 'Em Say" by Ryan Bingham is about Byrd's murder and the racially charged climate around Jasper following the crime (2012). [69] Byrd's murder is the subject of Lucille Clifton's poem "jasper texas 1998". [73] The Geto Boys track "Eye 4 An Eye" from Da Good da Bad & da Ugly refers to Byrd's manner of death in its second verse.
The Classical Revival-style house was built for John H. Bankhead in 1910. [3] He served in the Alabama Legislature, as a U.S. Representative, and as a U.S. Senator.His granddaughter, the award-winning actress Tallulah Brockman Bankhead and her sister Eugenia, were raised in the house when Congress was not in session. [2]
WJLX (1240 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Jasper, Alabama. It airs a full-service oldies music format. [3] The station was assigned these call letters by the Federal Communications Commission since January 29, 2008, when it swapped with then-sister station WLYJ. [1]
WQJJ-LP (101.9 FM, "101.9 Fox-FM") is an American low-power FM radio station licensed to serve the community of Jasper, Alabama. WQJJ-LP is owned by North Alabama Public Service Broadcasters. [2] WQJJ-LP has been active in the Birmingham, Alabama, radio market since it first began broadcasting in January 2005.