A public-private partnership came to fruition in Northport Thursday morning, where city leaders cut the ribbon on a new outdoor fitness court designed for everyone 14 and up.
Elected officials and residents in Northport gathered Monday to celebrate reopening a community center that seemed doomed for demolition less than a year ago.
Christy Bobo, the former president pro tempore of the Northport City Council, has assumed the role after the shock Thursday resignation of embattled president Jeff Hogg.
It wasn't clear if the city wanted to mend fences or burn bridges Monday in a bizarre attempt to keep the Kentuck Festival of the Arts from leaving its longtime home in Northport.
Northport Mayor John Hinton is excited by what the city council has accomplished in the three years since they were first elected and even more so by what he expects is soon to come.
It will only require approval from three elected officials to sell the Northport Community Center after the city council voted to repeal decades-old protections Monday.