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A stone mound created by American Indians sits behind the Oxford Exchange. Workers are using the dirt from the hill as fill for a new Sam's Club. Photo: Stephen Gross/The Anniston Star
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OXFORD — A stone mound on a hill behind the Oxford Exchange created by American Indians 1,500 years ago will soon disappear. And whether Oxford's taxpayers wanted it or not, they paid for its destr...
CDA contracts not at Oxford City HallPeople looking for contracts signed by Oxford’s Commercial Development Authority won’t find them at City Hall where the board meets. They’re up the road on East 13th Street in An...
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Oxford promised to pay CDA bonds
OXFORD — The development of two large commercial projects in Oxford happened because the City Council made a promise to pay back debts of its Commercial Development Authority.
OXFORD — The development of two large commercial projects in Oxford happened because the City Council made a promise to pay back debts of its Commercial Development Authority.
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The Silent Partner: Changes in law give more power to citiesLanding a big retail store in Alabama sometimes takes serious bait. Since 1994, Oxford’s Commercial Development Authority has been the city’s fishing pole. The city baited the CDA...
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The Silent Partner: Oxford mayor has financial ties to Commercial Development Authority activitiesSeveral financial ties connect Mayor Leon Smith and the board promoting the city’s commercial development. Smith sees nothing wrong with these links between his political fundraising, one ...
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Five years ago, there was little but an overgrown wooded area south of Interstate 20's exit 188.
Today the once-empty space is dominated by the city's new economic engine, the Oxford Exchange...
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An update on the major figures in the case of the 1965 shooting death of Willie Brewster Sr.
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Four-plus decades does little to blunt the pain that Willie Brewster's widow, Lestine Easley, feels today.
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One name often mentioned in the turbulent history of the civil rights movement in this part of Alabama is Kenneth Adams. The case of Willie Brewster, shot down by nightriders in July of 1965, is no...
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As to the facts of the case of Willie Brewster, a man shot to death by nightriders on a lonely stretch of Alabama 202 more than four decades ago, Harry Sims is as detailed as the frayed onion-skin ...
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During the darkest days of the civil rights movement, 7-year-old Willie Brewster Jr. took his dying daddy’s hand in an Anniston hospital and held it tight as the reality of the darkest day of his y...
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The FBI's case file on the shooting of Willie Brewster. Part 2 of 2.
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