Reporter for Alabama Media Group. My work is published on AL.com, and in print in The Huntsville Times, The Birmingham News and the Mobile Press-Register.
@acvollers
www.annaclairevollers.com
Anna Claire Vollers
reporter
Huntsville, Ala.
Reporter for Alabama Media Group. My work is published on AL.com, and in print in The Huntsville Times, The Birmingham News and the Mobile Press-Register.
@acvollers
www.annaclairevollers.com
HAZEL GREEN, Alabama – Around 1 a.m. on May 10, 2012, Jeremy Hays sent his new bride a text. He’d married Anna just five weeks before, in Huntsville, surrounded by family and friends.Jeremy was in Memphis because his job sent...
With this article (published both in The Huntsville Times and on AL.com) I won second place for Best Feature Story Coverage from the Alabama Press Association in 2014.
This article made it to #3 of the top stories sitewide on AL.com.
Court-ordered school integration efforts are rare these days. School desegregation peaked in the late 1980s and federal judges have released hundreds of school districts across the South from court-enforced integration over the past 15 years. "We need to be out from under a desegregation order," said Mary Scott Hunter, a member of the Alabama State Board of Education who has three children at Blossomwood Elementary.