Maria Rakoczy

Mar 19, 2025 | themadisonrecord.com | Maria Rakoczy

MADISON – March is Women’s History Month, and in commemoration, Madison Mayor Paul Finley signed a proclamation at last week’s Madison City Council designating March 30 as Women- Owned Business Day in the city of Madison. The proclamation recognizes the role of women in the national and local workforce. The state of Alabama ranks 15th in the country for women- owned businesses with an estimated 153,000 women-owned businesses producing $19 billion in sales.

Mar 19, 2025 | themadisonrecord.com | Maria Rakoczy

MADISON – Master Gardeners of North Alabama is partnering with the City of Madison to construct and maintain a greenhouse at the Madison Community Center. At last week’s Madison City Council meeting, the city council approved a contract with MGNA for the non-profit to pay for the construction of a greenhouse on land adjacent to the community center building. The greenhouse is to be 24 feet by 60 feet in size. MGNA will also have use of a storage shed on community center grounds.

Mar 3, 2025 | themadisonrecord.com | Maria Rakoczy

Peak tornado season is here in North Alabama. National Service Weather data shows that more tornadoes have occurred in March and April in Alabama than in any other month. A total of 475 and 609 tornadoes have been recorded in those months, respectively, over the last 100 hundred years.

Jan 31, 2025 | themadisonrecord.com | Maria Rakoczy

MADISON – The city of Madison put the outfield site demolition package for the new clubhouse at Toyota Field out to bid on Thursday, January 23 but received no bidders on the project. “We did not have any bidders on that based on the criteria we had given them,” reported Mayor Finley at the Monday, Jan. 27 Madison City Council meeting.

Jan 31, 2025 | themadisonrecord.com | Maria Rakoczy

MADISON – Residents of Madison in districts 1, 2, and 4 may have a different polling location for the municipal elections later this year. The Madison City Council heard a first reading at the Jan. 27 meeting of a proposal to move the polling location for the Limestone County portion of these three districts to James Clemens High School. The residents affected previously voted at Lamb of God Lutheran Church on County Line Road.