Living 50 Plus Huntsville-Madison

10/09/2024

By Bob Labbe | Photos by Joshua Berry | Living 50 Plus Carlos Mathews strives to be the best he can be while being an enormous inspiration to others. Those two facets of his life help drive him not only in his work of a business owner specializing in hosting government contracts, but as an

10/09/2024

By Maria Rakoczy | Living 50 Plus BAAM is downtown Huntsville’s newest spot for good food and good nightlife. It’s the newest venture of longtime Huntsville restaurateur Mark Komara. Komara started in the local restaurant and entertainment business forty-one years ago in 1983 with Sports Page Ba...

10/09/2024

By GraciAnn Goodin | Living 50 Plus Grant and Jenny Sweer’s backyard looks like something out of a fairy tale. Immediately after walking past the open gate, a wide expanse of model railroad tracks and miniature figurines and buildings meet the eye. Vibrant flowers and greenery weave throughout. Th...

10/09/2024

By Erin Coggins | Living 50 Plus The Huntsville Hospital Breast Cancer Center is the busiest mammography site in the entire state of Alabama. And thanks to the annual Liz Hurley Ribbon Run, both Huntsville and Madison Breast Centers are fully 3D mammography capable, making breast cancer easier to de...

10/09/2024

By GraciAnn Goodin | Living 50 Plus Margy Pritchett has been an artist for pretty much her entire life. She has always loved painting, especially. She considered it just a hobby, though, and like many hobbies, other things in her life often took precedence. Her husband, Dan, has not always been an a...

10/09/2024

By Cole Sikes, Alabama Extension Service | For Living 50 Plus Many people associate garden chrysanthemums, or mums, with the beginning of autumn. These floral features are already occupying garden centers and front porches around the country. There are tips and tricks to make sure that every mum has...

10/09/2024

By Bob Labbe | Photos by Joshua Berry | Living 50 Plus Table Tennis is more or less a “grown up version of Ping Pong.” Both versions of the sport are fun, athletic and difficult to master, but since 1983 with the formation of what is known as the North Alabama Table Tennis Club (NATTC),

10/09/2024

Huntsville Ballet’s 2024/2025 Alluring Season is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser for both the seasoned arts lover and awestruck newcomer. After the raving success of Huntsville Ballet Company’s 60th Season, Huntsville Ballet returns with yet another spectacular season line-up. According to Artistic D...

08/07/2024

Story By Maria Rakoczy | Photos By Joshua Berry | Living 50 Plus Sandra Lester is our very own Van Gogh. A skilled artist, a member of the Huntsville Art League, and a Madison resident, Lester creates eye-catching and thought-provoking art that invokes the color and movement of Vincent Van Gogh’s ...

08/07/2024

Story By Ava Malone | Photos By Joshua Berry | Living 50 Plus Traveling down the road in Huntsville in 1958, four-year old Bobby, as his mother called him, asked his dad to turn up the radio. Perry Como was singing “Catch a Falling Star.” That moment is one of the first memories Bob Labbe

08/07/2024

Story By Erin Coggins | Photos By Cristie Clark | Living 50 Plus Fifteen years ago, Patsy Trigg walked into the STUDIO 60 Senior Center on Drake Avenue for some advice on repairing her grandmother’s swing and she has never left. “The bolt was twisted in the swing, and I couldn’t get it out,”...

08/07/2024

Story and Photos By Teresa Gibbs | Living 50 Plus Imagine spending a quiet romantic evening with your loved one in a private, open-air cabana built on the edge of a forest with an amazing view of a mountain lake. Close your eyes and think of breathing in pure, fresh mountain air while soaking in

08/07/2024

By Dr. Eddie Miles Louis Smith, MSU Extension | For Living 50 Plus I am always looking for unique plants that brighten the landscape. Scaevola, commonly known as fan flower, is one of those plants. Native to Australia and the Pacific Islands, these plants are popular for their distinctive, fan-shape...

08/07/2024

By Gregg Parker | Living 50 Plus A local agency is helping to protect the well-being of senior citizens in the North Alabama region by advising them to avoid dangerous scams and consumer fraud. To hopefully prevent costly fraud, Top of Alabama Regional Council of Governments or TARCOG conducted the....

08/07/2024

Food Truck Rallies Third Fridays through October • Big Spring Park • www.downtownhuntsville.org Grab your friends, family, or pets and head downtown to enjoy mouthwatering food truck vendors each month. Don't forget to bring a chair or blanket to sit, eat, and listen to live music. There will al...

08/07/2024

Story By Maria Rakoczy | Photos By Joshua Berry| Living 50 Plus Tellini’s Italiano has long been a Huntsville institution, serving fresh, homestyle Italian food to Madison County for 25 years. The restaurant began in 1995 as Tellini’s Pasta Market and opened its first location in Gadsden, Alabam...

08/07/2024

You are never too old to go on a field trip! Looking for a fun day trip idea, during the months of August and September may be the perfect time to take a “hop, skip and jump” to Decatur and experience the Cook Museum of National Science. While area kids go back to school and

08/07/2024

The motto for Calypso Vision, the featured group at Burritt on the Mountain’s City Lights & Stars Concert Series on Aug. 30, reveals their music’s genre and the band’s outlook. “A Better Attitude from Another Latitude.” Their motto shows devotion to light-hearted good times, seasoned with ...

08/07/2024

When dining outside with your loved ones, there are few things better than a tasty dish everyone can enjoy. This Chipotle Chicken Flatbread makes for a perfect al fresco meal. Prepared along with a fresh salad or simply enjoyed by itself, this flatbread is simple to make and even kids will love addi...

08/07/2024

It is well documented that physical activity can be beneficial for the body, but what about the effects of exercise on the brain? Exercise enthusiasts will be glad to learn there are some notable ways that physical activity can benefit the brain. A 2018 study published in Frontiers in Psychology ind...

08/07/2024

Raising children is a significant responsibility. Parents know there’s no such thing as a day off, which is why the first day they come home to an empty nest can be so confounding. After roughly two busy and likely hectic decades or more of looking after their children, parents whose sons or daugh...

06/25/2024

Huntsville-Madison's newest magazine Living 50 Plus debuts today. Living 50 Plus is bi-monthly and appeals to the interests of active adults over the age of 50. It features content on travel, health & wellness, food, gardening, outdoor activities & more. The free magazine will be available at 70+ locations throughout Huntsville-Madison and via e-Edition.

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06/25/2024

By Bob Labbe | Living 50 Plus David Webb continues to follow his road to recovery. The world record-setting powerlifter is currently making headway on his journey after suffering near-death strokes in early 2022 and to the amazement to everyone, including his doctors, Webb is again lifting weights i...

06/25/2024

By Gregg Parker | Living 50 Plus Focused on music since the early 1960s, Jim Parker pursued an 8-to-5 career but always cherished the music scene. In fact, Parker’s musical career is still on a high note. In 2001, he founded “Jim Parker’s Songwriters Series” at Bandito Burrito on Main Street...

06/25/2024

Maria Rakoczy | Living 50 Plus When you step into Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience, you’re not stepping into an ordinary art gallery. You’re stepping into a full experience that, more than just hanging paintings on a wall, surrounds you in the moving and skillful pieces of Vincent Van Gogh. Va...