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The Century Town Council Monday night approved a proposed interlocal agreement between the county and the town for the town to be reimbursed $450,000 for a grant for expenses related to wastewater projects. The grant fund award is on the agenda for approval by the Escambia County (Fla.) County Commissioners this Thursday, July 22, at its meeting. Council members were given a Grant Work Plan outlining the scope and cost of the work in phases. The town has spent $50,000 for Phase 1 engineering...
W.S. Neal High School in East Brewton will welcome back a familiar face this year when Todd Williamson, who was assistant principal at the school several years ago, returns as principal. A few years ago, when Principal Patty Frazier stepped down and Williamson was at Escambia Career Readiness Center (ECRC), he was approached about taking the position, but didn't feel the time was right even though he considered it. He said when he found out W.S. Neal Principal Matthew Hodge was leaving, he...
The Escambia County (Ala.) Board of Education held a special meeting Tuesday for recommended personnel changes and announce two new principals, Randall Jackson at Pollard McCall Junior High School and Todd Williamson at W.S. Neal High School, followed by a workshop to reveal the candidates for the position of school superintendent. The board approved the recommended personnel changes except one, reigning Escambia County Middle School choir teacher James Weber, held out for executive session to...
On Tuesday, June 29, officials from the Atmore Community Hospital and Escambia County Health Care Authority (ECHCA) gathered to break ground on a new urgent care clinic on Highway 21 across from Wind Creek Casino in Atmore. The facility is slotted to open in March 2022 and will offer non emergent need and increased access to healthcare for the city of Atmore and surrounding communities. It will feature a lab, x-ray equipment, a pharmacy and wellness care. It will replace the current walk-in clin...
Students at Flomaton Elementary School will see a new principal this fall following the Escambia County (Ala.) Board of Education's approval of Courtney McBride Monday. McBride will step in to take George Brown's place since Brown became Flomaton High School principal after Scott Hammond retired this summer. McBride has served as the school system's elementary curriculum and instruction supervisor for K through sixth grade for the last year. A Jay High School graduate, McBride earned a degree...
Students at Bratt Elementary School will see a new face behind the principal's desk when they return to school this fall. On June 15, Amy Scruggs McCrory was approved by the Escambia County (Florida) School Board to serve as the school's new principal. McCrory will replace Principal Karen Hall, who has been in education for 39 years, the past 11 as Bratt's principal. Hall said she going to spend some time with her family and she may decide in the future to step back into education in florida or...
Dee Sullivan, principal of Byrneville Elementary School, is retiring at age 80 with 59 years in education. Sullivan grew up in Michigan and got her elementary education degree from Western Michigan University then moved to California to begin her teaching career. After six years, Sullivan moved to Pensacola in 1969, where she taught in the Escambia County School System. "My first husband's family was from Alabama," said Sullivan. "And my family was from Michigan, and we wanted to be closer to...
With the loosening of CDC guidelines held tight during the pandemic, the Greater Escambia Center for the Arts (GECA) is poised to present David Rogers' 'Beverly Hillbillies' in-person at its location at 100 S. Trammel Street in Atmore. The show will run consecutively for two weekends in a row. Show times and dates for the first week are at 7 p.m., Thursday, Friday and Saturday, June 17 through June 19 and at 2 p.m., Sunday, June 20. The second weekend shows will be at 7 p.m., Thursday, Friday an...
Around 12:30 p.m. on Friday, May 28, Flomaton Fire Department responded to a 911 call reporting a vehicle fire on Highway 31. When firetrucks arrived on scene, the vehicle was fully involved and the fire was working its way toward the tree line, threatening to burn the woods, according to Flomaton Fire Chief Steve Stanton. Lee and Jessica Watson, of Atmore, were traveling south on Highway 31 when the 2002 Honda Civic began smoking. "We were driving down the road and my husband pulled over...
The community of Flomaton and surrounding area is in mourning for 12-year-old Logan Mitchell, who lost his life in a four-wheeler accident this past Sunday, May 23. Mitchell had just completed the sixth grade at Flomaton Elementary School and would have started next fall as a seventh grader at Flomaton High School. FES Principal George Brown described Mitchell as 'a typical country Flomaton boy' who loved the creek, the country and being out in the woods hunting every chance he got. "He had the...
The Escambia County (Ala.) School Board had a workshop this past Monday to begin the process of finding a new school superintendent now that Superintendent John Knott announced his upcoming retirement. Knott's last day is July 31, 2021, and according to Board Chairman Cindy Jackson, there is not a lot of time to do the leg work so the board has asked the Alabama Association of School Boards (AASB) for help with the process. “We held a three-hour workshop with AASB and our lawyers to discuss what...
The Century Town Council did not approve Mayor Benjamin Boutwell's recommendation of two hires for the town Monday night following discussion that the process was not carried out correctly. Mayor Boutwell recommended hiring Cynthia Daniels as citizens services clerk and Dennis Mathis for street department maintenance, the two he thought were the most qualified. When council members began questioning how these two applicants came to be recommended, Town Clerk Kim Godwin said five applicants who...
Escambia County (Ala.) School Superintendent John Knott announced his retirement as of July 31, 2021, at last Thursday's board meeting. Knott, who began his career as a special education teacher at W.S. Neal Elementary School, which he said he really loved. "I absolutely loved the kids, the staff I worked with and really had not thought about doing anything other than that," said Knott. "I enjoyed it." Knott had earned his master's degree in special education from Troy State University while he...
Jay Town Councilman Wayne Godwin announced that Monday night's meeting would be his last, leaving the council with one vacant seat and an even number of council members. Serving on the Jay Town Council since 2016, Godwin said he has sold his home in Jay and is moving just outside the city limits to his parents' old place, at the urging of his children. "It's all over with," said Godwin. "It was just time for me to be out of town. My kids wanted me to be down here. They were putting pressure on...
On Tuesday, new head coach and Athletic Director Brandon Wilcox started at W.S. Neal High School in East Brewton, following approval by the Escambia County Board of Education Monday. A 2002 graduate of T.R. Miller High School and member of its 2000 state championship team, Wilcox played tight end and defensive line in high school. Wilcox went to college at the University of North Alabama, where he was a linebacker and member of the 2003 Gulf South Conference championship team, and earned a...
Although COVID shut down the Jay Pro Rodeo last year, the event will be back in full swing at 8 p.m., Friday, April 23 and Saturday, April 24, at Ted May Arena, located at 4200 Highway 4 in Jay. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for kids age 12 and under and free admission for anyone who presents a flyer handed out to local elementary schools prior to the event. Parking is free.The rodeo hosts the 3R Rodeo Company from Jemison, Ala., and features pro bull riding, saddle broncs, calf and team...
On Friday, April 9, several members of Flomaton Elementary School personnel, along with Principal George Brown, Escambia County Board of Education member Cindy Jackson, Assistant School Superintendent Sandra Reid and Elementary Curriculum Spervisor Courtney McBride made their way to sixth grade math teacher Luanne Henderson's classroom to present her with the Teacher of the Year award for FES. Henderson is in her 23rd year teaching sixth grade math at FES, with 27 years total in education. A...
Join the Pink Ladies and the T Birds as Jay High School Drama Club presents its production of the hit Broadway musical, 'Grease: The School Version' this and next week. Showtimes are at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 8, Saturday, April 10, and Sunday, 11. Matinee shows will be at 3 p.m., Saturday, April 17 and Sunday, April 18. No tickets are being sold and entrance is free, but donations are encouraged as COVID-19 restricted fundraising this past year. Concessions will be available at each show....
In an effort to get the COVID vaccines distributed to rural areas in Escambia County (Ala.), the Poarch Creek Band of Indians held a free drive-through clinic Wednesday and will continue today from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Cottrell's Hometown Pharmacy in East Brewton will offer the vaccines through the end of the week with more available next week. Poarch Poarch will hold its clinic at 5811 Jack Springs Road in Atmore for those who are eligible to receive the vaccine. People currently eligible for...
An Atmore man who was arrested Saturday for an outstanding warrant in Alabama now faces a felony drug possession in Florida, after a deputy discovered methamphetamine inside his patrol vehicle. Bruce Edward Day, 53, of Atmore, was at a gas station in Atmore when an Escambia County (Fla.) law enforcement officer recognized Day and knew he had an outstanding warrant for possession of a weapon in Alabama, according to an Escambia County (Fla.) Sheriff's Office report. Day left the gas station in...
Escambia County (Fla.) Fire Rescue received a call about a fire about 10:16 a.m., Thursday March 18, and arrived to find a 10-foot by 20-foot shed on Ivy Street in Century fully involved. According to Century Fire Chief David Adams, the building was mostly collapsed when the first engine arrived on the scene. Adams said the cause is under investigation by the state fire marshall. In Florida, a cause of a fire has to be determined. It took firefighters about 10 minutes to extinguish the...
Escambia County (Ala.) School Superintendent John Knott updated board members on current COVID cases across the county when the board of education held its meeting at the Escambia Career Readiness Center (ECRC) in Brewton last Thursday. “Across the entire county, our current COVID-19 numbers for last week were one staff reported positive case, and close contacts were three students and two staff members,” said Knott. “We are really, really proud to see that these numbers have been down for t...
The Century Town Council Monday night voted 3 to 2 to start the hiring process over for two recently hired employees after it was determined that the town's charter states the council must approve hiring of new employees. A third position for a wastewater treatment trainee to help Water Superintendent Heath Burkett was not addressed at the meeting, Mayor Boutwell said later. Mayor Ben Boutwell had hired a person for the street department and one for the office recently after the positions were...
The town of Century will apply for a special Community Development Block Grant-Corona Virus (CDBG-CV) for four proposed projects in the town following an approval from the town council following Tuesday night's public hearing. The CDBG-CV is $100 million in funding through the CDBG Small Cities Program available to non-entitlement communities to prevent, prepare for and respond to the coronavirus pandemic. The town of Century is eligible to apply for up to $5 million in the first of two rounds...
The Century Town Council opted to reschedule a public hearing to apply for a $200,000 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) until Tuesday, March 9 due to a technicality of having the wrong address on the public advertisement for the hearing scheduled incorrectly at Century City Hall Monday night. According to the requirements of the grant, a public hearing has to be held, and that hearing has to be publicly advertised at least five days before the council meeting to approve a potential...
