Sears & K-Mart Closings/Ira Madison III

Sears and K-Mart Closures

By: The Midnight Rider

                           

Recently our great newspaper, the Times Daily, did an article about the closing of various Sears and K-Mart Stores. It is a shame that these two iconic businesses are closing. I can remember when there was a Sears in the Town Plaza, in Sheffield, when I was a kid. There was also one on Tennessee Street in Florence, across from the Gun Runner. Both of those closed when the Sears in the Mall opened.

I can remember when K-Mart was the place to shop. Everyone went there. This was before Wal-Mart. There use to be a Big-K in the Towne Plaza in Sheffield. It’s amazing that all these business were in the Towne Plaza back then and now they are no longer there and the Plaza is falling apart.

Here is a list that shows more closures than the Times Daily article:

Sears:

• 90 Elm St, Enfield, Connecticut

• Kentucky Oaks Mall, Paducah, Kentucky

• 1901 S. Yale Ave., Tulsa, Oklahoma

• Town Center Mall, Charleston, West Virginia

• Meadowbrook Mall, Bridgeport, West Virginia

• Walden Galleria, Cheektowaga, New York

• Boulevard Mall, Amherst, New York

• 1 Galleria Dr., Middletown, New York

• Swansea Mall, Swansea, Massachusetts

• Florence Mall, Florence, Alabama

Kmart:

• Jasper Mall, Jasper, Alabama

• 2003 US-280, Phenix City, Alabama

• 3001 Iowa Ave., Riverside, California

• 1801 NW US Hwy 19, Crystal River, Florida

• 501 N. Beneva Road, Sarasota, Florida

• 19400 Cochran Blvd., Port Charlotte, Florida

• 2111 S. Federal Highway, Ft. Pierce, Florida

• 1501 Normandy Village Parkway, Jacksonville, Florida

• 2211 W. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway, Kissimmee, Florida

• 4955 Golden Gate Parkway, Naples, Florida

• 111 Town and Country Dr., Palatka, Florida

• 2815 West Parrish Ave., Owensboro, Kentucky

• 1501 Paris Pike, Georgetown, Kentucky

• 14662 N. US Highway 25 E, Corbin, Kentucky

• 1710 W. Highway 192, London, Kentucky

• 3010 Fort Campbell Blvd., Hopkinsville, Kentucky

• 2945 Scottsville Road, Bowling Green, Kentucky

• 222 North Point Blvd, Baltimore, Maryland

• 9 Plaza Way, Fairhaven, Massachusetts

• 4645 Commercial Dr., New Hartford, New York

• 250 Three Springs Dr., Weirton, West Virginia

• 731 Beverly Pike, Elkins, West Virginia

• 5132 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, Washington

• 1050 Division St., Parkersburg, West Virginia

I am and always will be, the Midnight Rider.

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PUBLIC INFORMATIONAL MEETING – Family Law Reform

The Alabama Family Rights Association (ALFRA) will host a family law reform informational meeting on Tuesday, January 31, 2017, at 6:00 p.m. located at the Coldwater Inn, 712 Highway 72, West Tuscumbia, Alabama 35674, Conference Room.

The meeting is open to the public and is sponsored by Concerned Citizens for the Children’s Future in Colbert County, Lauderdale County, and adjacent counties.

ALFRA will discuss the ongoing efforts to change the current Alabama child custody law (enacted in 1852) to ensure that no child is put at risk. Such efforts include proposals to be pursued in the 2017 legislative session where all children have a fundamental right to spend time with their two fit parents regardless of their parents’ marital status.

We would like to invite those impacted by the family law practices to attend: clergy, elected officials and candidates, parents, school counselors and other educational staff members, the administrative office of courts, therapists, mediators, parent-child coordinators, social workers, Alabama DHR representatives, family law attorneys, district attorneys, and judges. One of the greatest economic stimuli for our state is to protect and safeguard the parent-children relationship.

Contact: Debbie Zeiger, State VP                                    

Phone: (205) 626-9458

E-mail: info@alfra.org

Website: www.alfra.org

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