Forkland Mayor Charlie McAlpine and Congresswoman Terri Sewell

On Thursday, April 4, 2024, at Noon, Congresswoman Terri Sewell held a ‘Congress in Your Community’ visit to the Forkland City Hall, a municipality in southern Greene County.
Congresswoman Sewell, who represents the Alabama 7th Congressional District which stretches from Birmingham to Tuscaloosa and the western Black Belt counties of Alabama, including Greene County, was introduced by Mayor Charlie McAlpine of Forkland.
Sewell made brief remarks about her work n Congress in passing the FY 2024 budget and working on the FY 2025 budget. Then she moved around informally talking to her constituents from table to table.
Sewell said this format gave her a chance to hear about the needs and problems of people in her district. “It was like holding office hours in the field,” she remarked.
More than a 100 people attended the meeting and received a lunch courtesy of the Town of Forkland.