Jim Rainey has been publisher of The Tuscaloosa News since November 2012. A career newspaperman, he has been a reporter, columnist, editor and publisher at newspapers in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas. An Atlanta native, Jim came to Tuscaloosa from New Braunfels, Texas, where he was publisher […]

Donna Boles is a teacher, musician and world traveler whose family has a tradition of grandparents taking their grandchildren on overseas vacations. This year, she took her 10-year-old grandaughter, Jillian, to the Galapagos Islands. She will share their experiences with the club. Donna was raised in Indiana, […]

Ford Burttram is the head coach of the Alabama Adapted Athletics men’s basketball team at the University of Alabama. As a player, Coach Burttram won a national championship in eighth grade playing standup basketball. He won a second national championship, first in wheelchair, in 1998-1999 at the University […]