MIDWAY -- Educator Booker T. Washington and wealthy businessman Julius Rosenwald had little in common at first, but their unique friendship paved the way for the start of a quality education for millions of slave descendants across the South.

Someone from the Wiregrass who fought in World War II - maybe a veteran of the Battle of Midway or the Bataan Death March or the D-Day Invasion - will be flown at no cost to Washington, D.C., to see the World War II Memorial this month in part because a little girl sold lemonade Thursday.

Naomi Shelton started singing in her church in Midway, Alabama, when she was six years old.

The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources State Lands Division will hold its annual Spring Outdoor Festival on Saturday at the Wehle Land Conservation Center near Midway in Bullock County.