DOUBLE SPRINGS - Ashley Pool, CEO of Lakeland Community Hospital, sent out an important message at an emergency meeting attended by state and local officials Thursday, about steps the hospital is taking during the COVID-19 pandemic in the state.

WINSTON COUNTY - Traders & Farmers Bank is now taking all transactions via the drive-thru at all their locations, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

DOUBLE SPRINGS - The following press release was given to the Northwest Alabamian today concerning the closing of the Extension office in Winston County. Winston County Extension may be reached at 205-489-5376.

WINSTON COUNTY - The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Alabama jumped to 77  in the Thursday afternoon update released by the Alabama Department of Public Health.  The closest case to Winston County is a case confirmed in Walker County.

Jefferson County still has the highest number of confirmed cases at 34.  Lee County has 10 cases, Shelby County has 9, Elmore and Madison County each have 5, Tuscaloosa County has 4, Montgomery County has 3 and Baldwin, Calhoun, Chambers, Limestone, St. Clair, Talladega and Walker each have 1.

 

LAKESHORE - The owners of Lakeshore Inn & Marina provided the following letter to the Alabamian to let everyone know about the status of Lakeshore Restaurant in the wake of COVID-19:

HALEYVILLE - The following restaurants in Haleyville are open and are offering curbside pickup service, as well as drive-thru service where applicable.

WINSTON COUNTY - Attorney General Steve Marshall warns those who would seek to illegally profit from the current public health emergency that Alabama’s price gouging law has been activated.

DOUBLE SPRINGS  - The Winston County Commission in an emergency meeting held Thursday morning, voted to declare a State of Emergency, enabling Chairman Roger Hayes to carry out routine and necessary operations and expenditures due to the coronavirus or COVID-19 restrictions being issued statewide.

 

MONTGOMERY - Governor Kay Ivey and the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) on Thursday, March 19, issued a statewide health order to aid in Alabama’s efforts to contain the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19).