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Councilman Roger Adkinson said there seems to be a disconnect in town hall with members of the town council being left in the dark saying the council members need to be informed when things happen in the town. “At this point I am going to ask, is it possible for our mayor pro tem (Jim Johnson) be notified of things going on here at city hall, in the police department and other areas?” Adkinson said during a workshop Monday afternoon. “Things need to be shared with him especially if the mayor...
The Flomaton Town Council agreed that the fire department needs a ‘new’ firetruck and told Chief Stanton to bring back some money figures before any decision could be made. The issue of needing a firetruck came up during Tuesday afternoon’s council workshop where no official vote could be taken. Stanton said the department currently has a 40-year old firetruck it uses as a backup and its 2002 truck was out of service for a few weeks, but Flomaton was able to use a Lambeth Volunteer Fire Depar...
A representative from the McCall Water System will be heading to Washington, D.C., in February to represent the system after McCall took first place in the Alabama Rural Water Association's contest for the best water in the state. A panel of judges in Montgomery gave the McCall Water System the blue ribbon based on taste, clarity and odor over 19 other water systems during the rural water system conference held on March 21. The McCall Water System will now represent the state of Alabama at the n...
Shock, disbelief and sadness were the emotions that began hitting the Flomaton community last Wednesday as people learned that the person who died in an industrial accident in Cantonment was 2022 Flomaton High School graduate Dalton Layne Hanks, 19. Social media and television stations began reporting that someone had been killed about 4:30 p.m. at the Foley Products Company concrete site on North Highway 95A near Quintette Road in Cantonment. Those reports didn't mention a name, other than a...
A Flomaton woman and Mobile woman were both arrested on drug charges after Atmore police found the two women sleeping inside a vehicle near 500 East Church St. Madonna Faith Barnhill, 57, 1711 Roosevelt St., Flomaton and Carolyn Faye Harris, 43, 3515 York Road, Mobile, were both charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine) and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia. According to Atmore police, officers were dispatched March 19 to a parking lot near 500 East...
The Flomaton Town Council approved some money expenditures and tabled others until after holding a workshop to go over finances and “other things” with the council setting the workshop for 4 p.m. Monday, March 27 at Flomaton Town Hall. Councilman Roger Adkinson said he had requested the council hold a workshop but noted it was not on Monday afternoon’s agenda. Adkinson said the council needed to discuss some finances and other issues. During Monday’s meeting the council voted to table or postpon...
The Escambia County (Ala.) Sheriff's Office has teamed with Alabama Scenic River Trail and the city of Brewton to place mile markers along Big Escambia Creek, Murder Creek and Burnt Corn Creek to aid possible rescue efforts for kayakers, canoers and floaters who will soon be hitting the waterways as warm weather arrives. Sheriff Heath Jackson said the goal is to label all waterways in the county, using a GPS mapping system developed by Jacksonville State University, to set the mile markers on tr...
"He taught so much to so many and asked so little in return" is how Lance Youngblood described John Clarence Smith who died Wednesday, March 8 in Jay. Smith, 97, a 1944 graduate of Jay High School, spent 40 years as an educator in Santa Rosa County with 36 of those years as the head basketball coach at Jay High School. Smith's basketball teams won 613 games and he was inducted into the Florida High School Athletic Associations' Hall of Fame in 1991. On Jan. 27, 2022, family members, friends and...
Escambia County (Ala.) Clerk-Administrator Tony Sanks will step down from that position he's held for the past 28-plus years with his final day on the job set for May 19. Sanks, 50, grew up in Atmore and was working at AmSouth Bank in Birmingham when he learned about the opening as the county clerk and decided to apply. He said he's enjoyed his tenure as the clerk-administrator but felt the time was right to make change. "I've honestly been thinking about it for more than a year," Sanks said....
A Brewton woman who serves as aquatics director and swim coach for the Brewton Area YMCA has been arrested on 13 felony counts charging her with fraudulent use of a credit card. Angel M. Boyd, 49, 4691 Kirkland Road, was arrested March 2 after being indicted by an Escambia County grand jury. She was transported to the Escambia County Detention Center in Brewton and released the next day on $100,000 bond. Escambia County Sheriff Heath Jackson stated the indictments were the result of a fraud...
On Nov. 2, 2022 Pineview Volunteer Fire Chief Dakota Chancery put his own life in jeopardy to pull a woman from a burning vehicle. Last week he was recognized for his heroics by receiving an Alabama House of Representatives resolution commending him for his actions. State Rep. Alan Baker spearheaded the resolution, which was presented to Chancery by former volunteer fireman and current County Commissioner Larry White during last week's meeting of the Escambia County Firefighters Association's...
Moore Creek Mount Carmel Utilities officially opened its fourth water well at 3390 North Simmons Road and plans are to continue to add water capacity for customers in the Jay area. Elijah Bell, president of the Moore Creek Mount Carmel Utilities board, said the COVID-19 pandemic and inflation turned the new well into a five-year project. "We needed to add capacity to the system," Bell said. "There's a lot of development up here and we are trying to stay ahead of the growth." He said the system...
An Atmore man has been charged with reckless murder after his 2-year old son died Monday after being left strapped in a child restraint seat for about eight hours inside the man's truck while he was at work at 30 Below Ice Cream Bar and The Heat Sports Grill on North Main Street in Atmore. Shaun W. Rounsavall, 51, 26 Highland St., was arrested by Atmore police after learning of the child's death. Reports released from the Atmore Police Department say police were contacted about 4:30 p.m. by...
Residents inside the town limits of Flomaton and some inside Flomaton’s fire jurisdiction should see a 10 to 20 percent decrease in their homeowners insurance beginning June first after the town’s ISO rating dropped from a 5 to a 4 for the first time in history. The ISO (Insurance Services Office) rating is done every five years based on three categories: emergency communication center (dispatchers), the water department and the fire department. Any residence or business which is located wit...
A 16-year old pregnant Atmore girl is dead and another 16-year old is in the Escambia County Detention Center in Brewton charged with murder following a shooting Monday night in Atmore. Lamareyoun Moore was adjudicated as an adult in the shooting death of the 16-year old female and is being held in the county jail on $1 million bond for the Class A felony charge. According to reports released by the Atmore Police Department, police responded to Atmore Community Hospital about 10 p.m. Feb. 20 in...
A 20-year old East Brewton man with warrants for his arrest was killed in a single-vehicle crash Friday night after fleeing police who then tried to pull him from the burning vehicle. David Grey Emmons, 1500 Forrest Ave., crashed a stolen truck into a tree on Ridge Road about 9:40 p.m. Feb. 17. Following the crash the truck burst into flames as police officers attempted to free him from the wreckage. East Brewton Police Chief Kenny Brazille said a call came into the police department before 5...
A Fairhope attorney filed suit in Escambia County Circuit Court Tuesday afternoon on behalf of former County Engineer Bill Bridges claiming the county commission violated Bridges’ due process rights when it fired him on Jan. 9, 2023. The suit was filed against the county commission as a whole and Commissioners Steven Dickey, Raymond Wiggins, Brandon Smith, Larry White and Karean Reynolds individually. After placing Bridges on administrative leave with pay the week before, the commission voted 3...
A 44-year old convicted felon from Atmore is back behind bars on multiple charges after being arrested Friday, Feb. 10, after alledgely shooting a weapon into an occupied home. George Edward Cooper, 181 Crow St., was charged with burglary I, discharging a weapon into an occupied dwelling, six counts of reckless endangerment, attempted murder and unlawful possession of a pistol. According to reports from the Atmore Police Department, about 6:05 p.m. Feb. 10, officers responded to a residence on...
An Atmore man who had warrants out for his arrest is back behind bars after alledgely trying to break into the Escambia County Detention Center property to deliver contraband to prisoners being housed in the county jail. David Lavorn Johnson, 26, 1250 Freemanville Drive, was arrested Feb. 6 and charged with promoting prison contraband I and II, conspiracy to commit a controlled substance crime, possession of burglary tools, unlawful possession of marijuana I, unlawful possession of a controlled...
The Flomaton Town Council unanimously voted Monday to end its 99-year lease with the Escambia County School System and turn Hurricane Park over to the school board. The school board is scheduled to meet at 4 p.m. on Feb. 16 at Flomaton High School with accepting the park on the agenda. Flomaton Town Hall was packed with standing room only on Feb. 7 for a public meeting to discuss the proposal from the school board to take over the park. In 1985 the town leased the majority of the land that now...
The town of Flomaton is looking at a price tag of an estimated $214,205 expense to rid Palafox Street from Church Street to Cary Street of utility poles and place those utilities under ground. Ken Jernigan, who has purchased several buildings in the downtown area, said he received quotes from Alabama Power ($79,671), Spectrum ($65,188) and AT&T ($69,346) to place the utilities under ground. Jernigan said the quotes he received are good for 90 days. Jernigan called the current situation an...
Flomaton's K-9 Boo was rushed to an emergency veterinarian provider early Friday, Feb. 3, and had to be put down due to complications with cancer. Police Chief Johnny Wilson said K-9 Officer Charles Land rushed Boo to the veterinarian about 5:30 a.m. due to sudden health complications. Boo, who was a certified police officer with the town, has been with the Flomaton Police Department for two years with a successful record of narcotics seizures leading to the arrests of multiple suspects. Boo...
The mass release of 369 prison inmates Tuesday, who were being housed in Alabama state prisons, hit one snag but the releases continue which has police chiefs and sheriffs upset and saying the state is simply trying to solve its problems by piling more problems on counties and municipalities. Under a 2001 law passed by the Alabama Legislature to allow early releases the gates were set to be open Tuesday for the 369 selected. People serving time for crimes from burglary, theft and drug...
A Brewton man accused of stealing a pickup truck last Tuesday outside the Circle K convenience store in East Brewton was back behind bars Friday morning in Katy, Texas, located just outside Houston. East Brewton Police Chief Kenny Brazille said his office was notified by officers in Texas that they had detained Jason Earl Wright and wanted to confirm that East Brewton police had warrants for his arrest and to confirm the 1993 Chevrolet pickup truck he was driving had been reported stolen. Chief...
An Atmore man was arrested on sex charges involving a then 6-year old girl that alledgely occurred over a three-year period from 2012 to 2015. Vonsha Mondez Jones, 28, was arrested last Thursday, Jan. 26, and charged with sexual abuse of a child less than 12 years old, sodomy I and sexual abuse I. A statement released by the Atmore Police Department states a police investigator was contacted on Nov. 30, 2021, by an Alabama Department of Human Resources case worker who was investigating the...
