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🌱 How Sheffield’s aging population compares to Alabama’s oldest cities.

Sheffield, Alabama Patch AM: a 4 min read

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In today's newsletter:

  • How Sheffield’s aging population compares to Alabama’s oldest cities.

Today's riddle: What has hands but isn’t able to clap? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Nice with plenty of sunshine, with a high of 79 and low of 45 degrees.
  • Thursday: Plenty of sunshine, temps: high: 80, low: 46.
  • Friday: Nice with plenty of sunshine, with a high of 79 and low of 50 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Baldwin County Has The 4 Oldest Population Cities In The State (gulfshoresnews.com) — Sheffield ranks among Alabama’s oldest cities by median age at 45.8 years, placing it high on a new statewide list. The report explains how older populations, especially in Baldwin County, are driving major healthcare expansions and could foreshadow similar needs and opportunities for aging-focused services, jobs, and infrastructure in communities like Sheffield and across Colbert County.
   

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What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • ALL Kids helps your children grow up healthy and strong.
    It provides low-cost health care to kids under 19. Learn more at alabamapublichealth.gov/allkids. (Nextdoor )
  • The Alabama Rural Medical Service Awards (ARMSA) incentivize family medicine, internal medicine, pediatric medicine, Med/Ped, and obstetric physicians to practice in rural, medically underserved areas in Alabama.
    Learn more: alabamapublichealth.gov/ruralhealth/armsa.html (Nextdoor )
  • Jack's Family Restaurants | Restaurant posted a job opening for Team Member in Tuscumbia. Apply here.
  • SBH Health System posted a job opening for Beauty Advisor 03576 (Inside Sales) Sally Beauty in Muscle Shoals. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Sheffield here.

🗞 Nearby News

Tuscumbia

  • Colbert Heights teacher accused of sex abuse to contest termination, public hearing set for November (waff.com)
  • Tuscumbia council appoints Mary Marshall VanSant to fill District 5 vacancy (waff.com)

Muscle Shoals

  • 5745 River Rd, Muscle Shoals, AL 35661 (redfin.com)
  • Max Norton eembraces the unknown with alternative rock single "Dark Moon" (earmilk.com)
  • State files third lawsuit against Muscle Shoals Music Foundation over workers' compensation (rocketcitynow.com)

Ok Sheffield! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What has hands but isn’t able to clap?" — A clock! (Thank you Lois R. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Sheffield

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