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Alabama Senior News

• Baldwin County, city staffers cope with summer heat

  BAY MINETTE, Ala. — County and municipal work crews have long-established procedures for dealing with Baldwin County summer heat, but recent three-digit temperatures have spurred renewed caution for worker safety.

• Gulf Coast Festival applies for Pepsi grant

  GULF SHORES, Ala., — The Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival has submitted an idea to receive a Pepsi “Refresh the Gulf” grant to assist in funding the 26th Annual Songwriters Festival to be held Nov. 11-21.

• Man killed in tractor accident

  An elderly New Harmony man died Wednesday after the tractor he was driving rolled over on top of him, trapping him in a pond. Bobby Standridge, 81, was pronounced dead at his home, early Wednesday morning by DeKalb Coroner Tom Wilson.

• Mail-order scams reported in Boaz

  Companies using familiar names like Publishers Clearing House and Reader’s Digest are behind possible scams hitting Boaz mailboxes, according to a Better Business Bureau spokeswoman.

• Birmingham police seek family of woman left at hospital

  Birmingham police are looking for relatives of an elderly woman who was left in a hospital parking lot.