Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL) articles from July 2000

Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL) archives from July 2000

Montgomery Advertiser, Ala., Business Question and Answer Column.
July 30, 2000... Byline: Mike Sherman Jul. 30--Janet May of Montgomery runs an advertising firm from the Perry Street home that had been occupied by former Gov. Fob James' family during his first administration. The Coosa County native grew up in...

Explorer Remains Popular in Montgomery, Ala., Area Despite Tire Recall.
July 30, 2000... Byline: Mary Lett Jul. 30--Dealers here expect the recent recall of millions of Bridgestone/Firestone tires to have little effect on local sales and popularity of the Ford Explorer. Ford Motor Co. has sold 3.6 million Explorers since...

Montgomery, Ala., Hosts Hunting Exposition.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Mary Lett Jul. 29--Christmas has come early for local hunting and fishing equipment suppliers. The seventh annual Buckmasters Exposition, expected to bring more than 35,000 people to Montgomery Civic Center today through...

OPINION: Web sites help parents, kids beat back-to-school blues.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Denise Berkhalter Jul. 29--"Come on in here, baby," the bubbly, brown woman said with a crescent smile across her face. She put her arms around my small, bare shoulders and ushered me into the room. Behind me, standing in the...

35,000 Visit Montgomery, Ala., for Hunting Exposition.
July 29, 2000... Byline: Mary Lett Jul. 29--Montgomery's lodging and restaurant industry expects a booster shot this weekend as more than 35,000 people descend upon the city. The bait is the seventh annual Buckmasters Exposition, which kicks off at...

Prattville, Ala., Candy Shop Offers Homemade Treats.
July 26, 2000... Jul. 26--For local chocolate lovers, Utopia does exist, and it's not Hershey, Pa. It's in Prattville, home to Chocodelphia, a candy shop where pecan pralines, snappers, tiger butter, truffles and sugar-free chocolates top the list of...

Airline, Congress to Discuss Delta's Plan to Modify Montgomery, Ala., Service.
July 26, 2000... Byline: Mike Sherman Jul. 26--Business representatives will join Mayor Bobby Bright and area members of Congress to discuss air service complaints with airline officials at a Tuesday meeting in the Washington, D.C., office of U.S. Sen....

Rising Natural Gas Prices Cause Alabama Gas Firm to Raise Residential Rates.
July 26, 2000... Byline: Andrew Reese Jul. 26--Price increases for natural gas across the country have prompted Alagasco to raise residential rates by an average of $2.59 Consumers should be on the lookout for a hike in their natural gas bills. ...

Drought Dries Up Seafood Supply in Montgomery, Ala., Area.
July 26, 2000... Byline: Mary Lett Jul. 26--The prolonged dry spell has diminished fish quantities and pushed up prices while threatening catfish farmers Cattle, corn and cotton are not the only Alabama products suffering from heat exhaustion. ...

Montgomery, Ala., Shoe Store Uses Electronic Check Debits.
July 26, 2000... Byline: Mary Lett Jul. 26--Customers paying by personal check at Montgomery's Shoe Station Superstore are in for a surprise. The store returns the check to the customer immediately following the purchase. The purchase is not a gift,...

Effects of Paper Firms' Deal on Alabama Is Not Yet Clear.
July 25, 2000... Byline: Mike Sherman Jul. 25--Time will tell the effects of two major paper firm deals on Alabama It is too early to assess effects on Alabama of Georgia-Pacific Corp.'s decisions to buy Fort James Corp. and to sell its own...

Montgomery Advertiser, Ala., Money Talk Column.
July 24, 2000... Byline: Mike Sherman Jul. 24--WE ARE PLEASED to report that Hillwood Cafe reopened Monday as a new upscale restaurant on Zelda Road in Montgomery. It is serving lunch and dinner. David McGuffin, who was trained at Johnson and Wales...

Nashville, Tenn., Restaurant Company to Test Beer License in Montgomery, Ala.
July 22, 2000... Byline: Marty Roney Jul. 22--PRATTVILLE, Ala.--A request for license to sell beer at a Prattville restaurant is part of a market test for Captain D's Seafood locations in the Montgomery area. Shoney's Inc., parent company of Captain...

Alabama Retailers Begin to Use Electronic Check Transactions.
July 22, 2000... Byline: Mary Lett Jul. 22--Customers paying by personal check at Montgomery's Shoe Station Superstore are in for a surprise. The store returns the check to the customer immediately following the purchase. The purchase is not a gift,...

Montgomery, Ala., Gas Stations Keep Eyes Open as Drive-Offs Increase.
July 22, 2000... Byline: Steve Mayo Jul. 22--Employees at gasoline stations in Montgomery and everywhere are keeping their eyes peeled, on the lookout for people trying to drive away without paying for fuel. And with gasoline prices shooting through...

Lowndesboro, Ala., Councilman Objects to State Approval of Landfill.
July 22, 2000... Byline: Alvin Benn Jul. 22--LOWNDESBORO, Ala.--A Lowndesboro leader opposed to a solid waste landfill for this little Lowndes County community said Thursday that the state's approval of the project "opens Pandora's box." "I can just...

Montgomery, Ala., Newspaper Publisher Takes New Job at Parent Company.
July 22, 2000... Byline: Mike Sherman Jul. 22--Thomas A. Bookstaver is leaving as publisher of the Montgomery Advertiser for expanded duties with Gannett, the Advertiser's parent. Bookstaver made the announcement to members of the newspaper's...

Montgomery, Ala., Sign Studio Grows From Small Business to Million-Dollar Firm.
July 22, 2000... Byline: Mary Lett Jul. 22--When MacGregor Hodges started his billboard business in May 1989, he had two customers and one of those was his father, Roy Hodges, president of W. H. Hodges and Co. Today, the Montgomery-based company has...

Alabama Counties Anticipate Operation of Surface Water Treatment Plant.
July 22, 2000... Byline: Marty Roney Jul. 22--In the wake of a Millbrook water system asking customers to conserve water, Autauga County and Elmore County water systems are looking to the day when a surface water treatment plant goes on line. The...

Alabama Agencies Line Up Relief Loans to Help Farmers.
July 21, 2000... Byline: Mary Lett Jul. 21--The plight of Alabama farmers suffering in this year's drought has not fallen on deaf ears. Help has come to cattle farmers in the form of free hay from the state Agriculture Department and low-interest...

Drought Reduces Crop Yields in Montgomery, Ala., Area.
July 21, 2000... Byline: Mary Lett Jul. 21--Billy Sellers has raised cattle on his south Montgomery farm for more than half a century. However, the drought of 2000 has the farmer wondering how he is going to feed his livestock. "As of this date,...

Montgomery, Ala.-Area Entrepreneurs Find Help in Business Groups.
July 21, 2000... Byline: Andrew Reese Jul. 21--Like other people who've just started small businesses, Mark Cline is busy trying to get his ideas off the ground. Three months ago, Cline and Andy Martin started Square Root Solutions, which provides...

Architects, Historian Trace Past of Montgomery, Ala., Ice-Making Plant.
July 20, 2000... Byline: Mike Sherman Jul. 20--A team of architecture technicians and a historian are documenting almost a century of ice making at a now-vacant plant in north Montgomery. The six-member team from the Historic American Building...

Alabama Consortium to Use Grant to Give Work Training to Black Belt Residents.
July 20, 2000... Byline: Mike Sherman Jul. 20--The West Alabama Regional Skills Consortium plans to use a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to train rural Black Belt residents for a work force that will help the state compete in the world...

Alabama Program That Supplies Cattle Herds with Hay Will End.
July 19, 2000... Byline: Mike Sherman Jul. 19--Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bishop served notice Tuesday that the state program designed to save cattle herds in drought-stricken southern Alabama will end Aug. 15. Facing the largest drought in...

Two Divisions' Earnings Boost Performance for Montgomery, Ala., Firm.
July 18, 2000... Byline: Mike Sherman Jul. 18--John M. Panettiere, chairman and CEO of Blount International, said record performance by two divisions position the company well for good performance for the year. Montgomery-based Blount reported...

Montgomery, Ala., Customers to Remain with AT&T Cable Services.
July 17, 2000... Byline: Mary Lett Jul. 17--AT&T Cable Services customers in Montgomery, along with more than 150,000 others across the state, will remain with the company. Negotiations have ended between AT&T Broadband, a business unit of AT&T and...

Air Force Conference Focus on Fighting Computer Terrorism.
July 17, 2000... Byline: Denise Berkhalter Jul. 17--Computer terrorism combat sounds a little bit like a video game, but the subject is indeed a serious one to military information technology personnel, said Darlene Cowsert, chief of public affairs for...

Airlines Post Record Numbers as Delta Ends Jet Service to Montgomery, Ala.
July 17, 2000... Byline: Mary Lett Jul. 17--Major U.S. airlines saw record numbers of passengers in June with planes for major carriers, on average, 80 percent full at a time when Delta plans to discontinue MD-88 jet service to Montgomery. Delta Air...

Firm Donates Computers to Montgomery, Ala., Day Care Service.
July 17, 2000... Byline: Denise Berkhalter Jul. 17--At a time when low unemployment demands cultivation of the future work force, west Montgomery has planted seeds by the water some call education. Aundria Green, a Bellingrath High School teacher,...

In-Home Tornado Defense Available for Montgomery, Ala.-Area Residents.
July 17, 2000... Byline: Denise Berkhalter Jul. 17--Alabama knows severe weather and the grief it can bring, for the state has recorded more than 1,000 tornadoes in the past 50 years and remains in the top five nationally for tornado deaths. No...

Montgomery, Ala.-Area Commission Chairman Helps Hospital That Saved His Life.
July 17, 2000... Byline: Mary Lett Jul. 17--Last October, Ed Beasley suffered a heart attack and was taken to Crenshaw Baptist Medical Center where he underwent surgery to unblock several arteries. Beasley, chairman of the Crenshaw County Commission,...

Decreased Medicare Reimbursements Affect Jobs, Services in Alabama Hospitals.
July 17, 2000... Byline: Mary Lett Jul. 17--Seventy percent of Alabama hospitals are operating in the red this year, reports the Alabama Hospital Association. Among them are Montgomery's Baptist Health and Jackson Hospital where financial hard times...

Montgomery, Ala., Firm Offers Internet, Wireless Phone for Businesspeople.
July 17, 2000... Byline: Denise Berkhalter Jul. 17--In this widely wired world, one may wonder just how much more connected we can become. Montgomery's latest addition to the cellular phone industry, Nextel Partners, is selling an Internet ready,...

Major Airlines Yank Major Airplanes from Montgomery, Ala., Airport.
July 12, 2000... Byline: Mary Lett Jul. 12--Major U.S. airlines saw record numbers of passengers in June with planes for major carriers, on average, 80 percent full at a time when Delta plans to discontinue MD-88 jet service to Montgomery. Delta Air...

Future of Gas Prices Uncertain, Unstable in Alabama.
July 12, 2000... Byline: Andrew Reese Jul. 12--Gas prices in town, and statewide, should hold steady for at least a few weeks. After that, who knows? "It takes a crystal ball to be able to come up with an answer," said Tom Scott, a spokesman for...

Tallassee, Ala., Residents Worry about Cutback in City Ambulance Coverage.
July 6, 2000... Byline: Nick Lackeos Jul. 6--Red Hill resident Frances Griffith is worried about being able to get an ambulance during an emergency. "Well, I expect it's going to be pretty rough," said Griffith, 72. Griffith, who grew up in...

Elmore County, Ala., Voters Select Party Candidates for November Elections.
July 6, 2000... Byline: Christie K. Sellers Jul. 6--ELMORE COUNTY, Ala.--Voters say they're tired of hearing about Elmore County's reoccurring financial problems and want some new county commissioners to turn the situation around. And Tuesday's part...

Autauga County, Ala., Education Officials to Hold Budget Hearings.
July 6, 2000... Byline: Barbara Knight Jul. 6--The Autauga County Board of Education will hold the first of two annual public budget hearings tonight at 6:30 p.m. The budget meetings are mandated by law, said Lois Finlay, the board's custodian of...

Prominent Montgomery, Ala., Lawyer Dies at Age 90.
July 6, 2000... Jul. 6--Jack L. Capell, a prominent Montgomery attorney who founded the law firm of Capell & Howard in 1947 with the late Fontaine M. Howard, died Monday, June 26, 2000 in Montgomery. He was 90. Capell primarily represented real estate...

Alabama Trucking Companies Suffer as Fuel Prices Remain High.
July 6, 2000... Byline: Andrew Reese Jul. 6--High fuel prices translate directly into big trouble for local trucking companies that operate big rigs. With the price of diesel fuel leveling out to a national average of $1.51 per gallon, up from $1.15...