Those of you who are new to Huntsville, Alabama shouldn't let your relative newness to town keep you from integrating into the community. Your job at the wire rope sheave factory is a good start, but reading up on local Alabama news will help give you something to talk about around the water cooler. The local news outlets are also a great way to find out about community events you could attend for the purposes of meeting new friends and neighbors. Your best bet for news relevant to Huntsville in particular and Alabama in general is the Huntsville Times.
The Huntsville Times is the daily newspaper for Huntsville and it has a circulation of almost 60,000, so there's bound to be someone at your calibration management software company who reads it too that you can chat with. The Huntsville Times is owned by the umbrella company Advance Publications, which also owns several other Alabama based newspapers, most notably the Press Register in Mobile and The Birmingham News in Birmingham.
The Huntsville Times has all the features you would expect from a typical newspaper like entertainment and ads for car raffles plus one that is unique. It has a special section for aerospace science and military news because the city is home to two major science and research facilities: the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (which works on developments in space launching systems) and the United States Army Redstone Arsenal (which works on rockets for military and space travel). Therefore if you're a science buff you'll have an extra reason to subscribe.
If you're interested in preserving the environment by reducing paper you can also subscribe to an online edition at www.al.com. This website is the combined website for all three Advance Publications newspapers in Alabama so it contains information specific to Birmingham and Mobile as well as Huntsville, so it should help keep you up to date on community events like girls hockey tournaments that you might want to travel out of town for. Most articles can be accessed for free but some content is restricted to paying subscribers.
In terms of what you will find on www.al.com, there are sections for news, weather, sports, entertainment, travel, jobs, real estate, classifieds, religion, technology, politics, opinion and business. This covers the nearly the full range of human interests, so whether you're a reno expert who loves to read about new ideas for installing bathroom vanities or a business person who needs to keep an eye on the stock prices, there should be something on the website for you. To keep up to date on breaking news you can subscribe to their RSS feed, follow them on Twitter or Facebook, or sign up for a daily email newsletter.
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