Huntsville Hospital Vaccination Clinic + New Music Festival

Good morning, neighbors! Amy Young here with a brand-new issue of the Huntsville Daily. In today's edition, check out an update from Huntsville Hospital about their vaccination clinic, a new music festival in Huntsville this weekend, and updates on schools in the area decisions on sporting event rules for COVID-19.

First, today's weather:

Humid and partly cloudy throughout the day. High: 91 Low: 72.

Here are the top stories in Huntsville today:

1. Huntsville Hospital will be reopening their community vaccination clinic at John Hunt Park. The clinic will reopen August 18 and will serve anyone over 12 with the Pfizer vaccine. (WAFF)
2. Sluice Fest, Huntsville’s new music festival, will be the place to find new bands to listen to! This is going to be a festival that spans three stages and two venues and will be this weekend. (AL.com)
3. Schools in the area are setting their COVID-19 rules for this year’s sporting events. Many systems are deferring to the state athletic associations’ guidelines, but WHNT has compiled a list you can see at the link. (WHNT)
4. Crestwood Medical Center has now also decided to limit inpatient visitation due to the rising COVID numbers. Inpatients will be allowed one visitor that in most cases must be 16, and NICU patients will be allowed two visitors. (WAAY)
5. The federal government has announced that they have awarded the contract for the new courthouse in Huntsville to Brasfield & Gorrie LLC. Work is set to start in the spring of 2022. (AL.com)

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Today in Huntsville

• Grades 2 & 3 Laptop Distribution - Roger B Chaffee Elementary School (12:00 AM)
• Fall Picture Day - James Clemens High School (12:00 AM)
• Master Artist Workshop with Lian Quan Zhen (9:00 AM)
• Time Out Book Club - My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand (12:00 PM)
• Fifth Grade Parent Orientation - Hampton Cove Elementary (3:30 PM)
• Ribbon Cutting: MLJ Escrow, LLC - Huntsville Madison County Chamber (4:00 PM)
• Bulls and BBQ - Hampton Cove Middle School (5:00 PM)
• 2nd Grade Curriculum Night - Columbia Elementary School (5:00 PM)
• City Council Meeting - City of Huntsville (5:30 PM)
• First Grade Curriculum Night - Weatherly Heights Elementary School (5:30 PM)
• Back to School Family Storytime - Huntsville Madison County Public Library (6:00 PM)
• Open House Meet & Greet - Sparkman Middle (6:00 PM)
• Downtown Writers Group - Huntsville Madison County Public Library (6:00 PM)
• 3rd Grade Curriculum Night - Rainbow Elementary School (6:30 PM)
• Coosa Valley Group Monthly Meeting, Native Grasses with Forester Kyle Lybarger (6:30 PM)

Huntsville Patch Notebook

• The Huntsville Museum of Art will welcome"9/11 and Beyond: Photographs from The Associated Press" on September 11 in honor of the twentieth anniversary (Details)
• Athens parents showed up to the meeting Monday night and shared their opinions on the mask mandate. Read about it here.

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— Amy Young

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