2023 Outstanding ACE Leadership Award – Mayor Sheldon Day of Thomasville
MONTGOMERY – The Alabama League of Municipalities announced the Alabama Communities of Excellence STAR Award recipients at its annual Municipal Leadership Institute and graduation/awards ceremonies on November 8, 2023, in Orange Beach. The League prese …
Thomasville, AL A Regional Model for Rural Success
Located 100 miles from the nearest urban center in one of Alabama’s poorest regions, Thomasville is shifting the narrative for a multi-county area within the Black Belt through collaboration, forward-thinking and steadfastly refusing to accept the status quo.
There’s no doubting Thomasville as an Alabama Community of Excellence
The town of Thomasville sits about 100 miles away from Mobile to the south, Montgomery to the east and Tuscaloosa to the north. Some might say this places the rural community in the middle of nowhere. Longtime Thomasville Mayor Sheldon Day prefers to say that the city actually is “in the center of everything.”
Thomasville
Thomasville, class of 2005, designated 2007, thomasvilleal.com Thomasville, which was incorporated in 1888, is located in northeast Clarke County in the southwest part of the state and is the center of a vast regional trade area that draws 80 …