\n George McDonald<\/a> <\/p>\n
From the West Alabama Newsroom\u2013<\/p>\n
The start of the new school year is now less than two weeks away and the Selma-Dallas County community is rallying together to make sure area students are ready to have a productive school year.<\/p>\n
The 2nd Annual Dallas Co. City-Wide Back to School Bash \u2014 is Saturday Aug. 1st \u2014 at the Riverfront Amphitheater in Selma from 9 am to 1 pm.<\/p>\n
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Marlene Hunter is with the city of Selma.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a way to make sure that our students have what they need going back to school,\u201d said Hunter.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnything that the child would need for school, it\u2019s gonna be on site this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
Over 40 community organizations and businesses have rallied together to help students and families \u2014 get ready for the upcoming school year.<\/p>\n
Each vendor has pledged to bring book bags \u2014 school supplies \u2014 and uniforms to giveaway at the event.<\/p>\n
Last year, the event served over a thousand children.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re gonna have free food for all the kids. They can just come out, relax, have a good time and then also know that they\u2019re going to be able to go back to school with what they need.\u201d<\/p>\n
Organizers say the combination block party and school supply giveaway \u2014 is the perfect way to wrap up the summer \u2014 and kick off the new school year.<\/p>\n
The entry point for the event is located on Lawrence Street and Water Avenue.<\/p>\n
Children must be accompanied by a parent at the event \u2014 to participate.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a first-come first-serve basis until everything is gone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Students in the Selma City and Dallas County School Districts \u2014 head back to school \u2014 on August 10th.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted: Jul 29, 2026 6:34 PM CDT by George McDonald From the West Alabama Newsroom\u2013 The start of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-391565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}