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Alabama Power Co., has launched a new visual outage map that allows customers real-time access to power outages and estimated times of power restoration. Sam Schjott, governmental and community relations manager for the power company, informed the Escambia County Commission Monday about the new feature that is free to customers by simply signing up. Schjott said the program will show virtual maps of power outages throughout the state with the ability to zoom in to streets and neighborhoods....
Flomaton Elementary School Principal George Brown will make a short walk across the parking lot after the Escambia County School Board unanimously approved him as the new principal of Flomaton High School. Brown, 45, will be replacing Scott Hammond, who has served as the high school's principal for the past 17 years and announced his retirement at the end of this school year. Brown said the hardest part of applying for the principal's job at the high school is leaving the teachers, staff and...
A benefit car wash will be held Saturday, June 12, beginning at 7 a.m. at Advanced Auto Parts in Flomaton to help support a family who lost everything in a fire Friday night. Constance and Wesley Madison suffered a total loss at the mobile home, located at 353 Dixon Road in Flomaton. Flomaton Fire Chief Steve Stanton said emergency personnel was dispatched at 11:38 p.m. Friday and when they arrived they saw heavy smoke and flames coming from the front door and windows. Constance Madison was the...
The Escambia County (Ala.) School Board voted to begin giving teachers and other personnel a state-mandated raise beginning July 1 instead of Oct. 1 which is when the new state raises go into effect. Chief Financial Officer Julie Madden told the board during a Tuesday workshop that giving the raises early will cost the school system about $95,000. Madden told the board it would be a good gesture for the employees and also said it would eliminate some book and record keeping work. She noted new...
The town of Century is eying a July 1 return to town hall to hold council meetings which will also help free up the community center on Highway 4 to be rented for other functions. Due to COVID-19, the town has been conducting its council meetings, workshops and other meetings at the community center, which allows for better social distancing. Mayor Ben Boutwell told the council Monday night that he expects everything to be back at full capacity on July 1. Council President Louis Gomez said the...
After holding out nine names for an executive session behind closed doors to discuss the good name and character of people on the personnel recommendation list, the Escambia County (Ala.) School Board approved all leave of absences, resignations, retirements and transfers. Those actions were taken during the board's meeting a noon on Tuesday. Board Chairman Cindy Jackson presented the board with a list of personnel up for consideration and asked each board member to pull out any names they...
An Atmore man is facing multiple drug charges after being arrested by Poarch police following a vehicle chase where the man allegedly tossed bags containing methamphetamine out the window while being pursued. Van Skelton II, 42, 550 Taylor Circle, Atmore, was charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance, attempting to elude, unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia and tampering with physical evidence. Skelton appeared for a bond hearing Friday before District Judge Eric Coale...
A Pensacola woman was arrested on drug charges after officers found heroin and marijuana in her possession. Heather Brooke Cash, 28, 6541 Blue Angel Parkway, was charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance, unlawful possession of marijuana II and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia. According to court records, Atmore Officer Ken Sessions stated Cash was found in possession of heroin and methamphetamine on Oct. 8, 2020 near Highway 21 in Atmore. Warrants were...
Monday morning on the lawn of the Escambia County Courthouse, a crowd gathered to honor the county residents who died in combat as the nation paused to pay tribute to the many men and women who gave their lives to protect the nation's freedoms. From the Star Spangled Banner and patriotic songs, the event ended with the playing of taps after retired Marine Col. Charles Jackson read the honor roll naming the 175 county residents who were killed during World War I, World War II, the Korean War, Vie...
Two adults and three children escaped injuries Tuesday afternoon when their 1995 Ford F-150 pickup truck overturned on Old Fannie Road in Flomaton and Police Chief Chance Thompson and Fire Chief Steve Stanton said the use of child restraints seats for the children prevented a more serious situation. Police and first responders were dispatched at 1:03 p.m. Tuesday to the single-vehicle cash on Old Fannie Road. Thompson said the vehicle was traveling on Old Fannie Road toward Welka Road when it...
Scott Hammond handed out his final diplomas last Thursday night as Principal of Flomaton High School ending a 27 year career at the helm of the Hurricanes having served the past 17 as the school's principal. Hammond, 51, is retiring and the search is under way the hire the next principal for FHS. A native of Flomaton, Hammond graduated from FHS in 1988 and was a member of Anthony Davidson's baseball team that won the state championship in 1988. After spending two years at Jefferson Davis Jr....
The Flomaton Police Department has added new officer to its force who will be used to detect drugs and track criminals and missing persons. His name is Boo and is a 5-year old female German Shepherd. Police Chief Chance Thompson said Boo has previously worked in law enforcement and his owner was getting out of law enforcement and decided to sell the dog. "It was a perfect opportunity at the right time," Thompson said. Thompson said the dog was purchased with money donated to a fund he created ab...
Atmore native Jack Curtis Lufkin died Feb. 26 at the age of 94, after serving his country and his state and especially loving his family. Lufkin's legacy and the legacy of his father Sewell Mariotte Lufkin, Sr., will continue to live inside the Thomas E. McMillan Museum on the Brewton campus of Coastal Alabama Community College through a gift from the family of Sewell's World War I Army uniform and Jack's World War II Navy uniform. Jack Lufkin's daughter, Pat, said after her father's death and...
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation and Safety Board are investigating airplane crashes that occurred last Friday and Saturday at the Atmore and Brewton airports respectively. Freddie Wayne McCall, Jr., manager of the Atmore Airport and manager and Fix Based Operations owner at the Brewton Airport, confirmed the crashes and the investigations. McCall said there were no injuries in either crash but both aircrafts were severely damaged. McCall said the crash at the...
Tears flowed from the eyes of sixth graders at Flomaton Elementary School as they remembered their classmate Jaden James during a dedication of a hand-made bench that now sits in the courtyard between the old and new wings of the school. James was killed in an automobile accident on Oct. 3, 2020, but his smile, attitude and laughter is still imbedded in the minds of his classmates. FES Principal George Brown said an anonymous donor built and donated the bench to the school in James' honor,...
Paula Bryant, sister of Phala Partin Hay who died inside her home during a fire on May 7, said her sister was not wheel-chair bound as reported in the May 13 edition of the Tri-City Ledger. “She was not wheel-chair bound,” Bryant said. “She had a wheelchair and used it sometimes, but she could walk.” Fire departments from McCall, Friendship, Brewton and Pineview responded to the 9:53 p.m. call at Hay's residence at 266 Jernigan Road and found the home fully involved. Hay's body was found i...
Escambia County (Ala.) Tax Collector Tim Pettis said all 161 parcels of land that were on the delinquent tax rolls were sold Monday and Tuesday in the county's first venture into an on-line tax lien sale. Instead of publishing the delinquent tax notices in newspapers, Escambia County joined other counties in doing the sale on-line. Under the process, bidders didn't bid on the cost of the property itself, but bid on interest rates for the property. Pettis said the average interest rate bid was...
A Daphne man stopped on Interstate 65 Saturday about midnight driving with no head lights or tail lights, now sits in the Escambia County Detention Center in Brewton on $1.5 million bond after the trooper found about 13 pounds of marijuana products that included gummie bears edibles, vapes and liquid containing THC levels higher than allowed by law. THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol) is the drug compound found in marijuana, which is illegal in the state of Alabama. Derrick Lee Cotton, 48, 7231 Cypress...
A 70-year old Brewton area woman died Friday night when the wheelchair-bound woman was trapped inside her burning home on Jernigan Road, near McCall. Phala Partin Hay, 266 Jernigan Road, was found inside the home by first responders, according to McCall Volunteer Fire Department Chief Charles Jackson. Jackson said Brewton Police Officer Tyler Aaron discovered the home fully involved and called at 9:53 p.m. Jackson also said he received a call of the house fully involved in flames with someone...
Escambia County (Ala.) will be holding its online delinquent tax sale beginning at 9 a.m. Monday, May 17, and will continued until 4 p.m. The sale of parcels with past due property taxes will continue at the same time day-to-day until the sale is completed. Persons interested in bidding on properties need to register at www.govease.com. Tax Collector Tim Pettis noted this is the first year for the online sale vs. selling the properties on the front lawn of the courthouse. He said Tuesday he...
Flomaton Mayor Dewey Bondurant, Jr., and several council members said all grant applications for funds to help the town need to come from the mayor's office and not from individual council members. “We are all elected together as a team,” Bondurant said during Monday afternoon's town council meeting. Bondurant said he received a call recently from State Rep. Alan Baker asking if anybody had asked him about a grant to purchase air packs for the fire department. “He asked, 'what kind of counc...
Escambia County (Ala.) Sheriff Heath Jackson told county commissioners Monday that they should expect a crowd of people at the next meeting to complain about the noise at the Tri-County Racetrack near Flomaton. Jackson told the commission his office received multiple calls this past weekend complaining about the noise. Jackson said all he can tell them is that the county does not have a noise ordinance and there's nothing his office can do. It was stated that races were still going on at 1 a.m....
The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency continues its search for the driver of a vehicle responsible for a multiple-vehicle crash Monday night near Flomaton that claimed the life of an 85-year old Molino man. According to reports released by ALEA, Marshall Fant was killed in a collision that occurred after the original wreck at the intersection of Highway 31 and Old Highway 31 near the racetrack. Fant was driving a 2014 Nissan Frontier when his vehicle collided with a 2013 Honda Accord. The report...
A Flomaton man arrested on multiple theft charges had to be escorted out of his bond hearing by sheriff's deputies after claiming he was not guilty and accusing deputies of assaulting him and "snatching' him around while inside the courtroom. Emanuel Rabun Bethea, 35, who said he lived on Palafox St., in Flomaton, was jailed on $250,000 bond on charges of burglary III, receiving stolen property II and two counts of theft of property IV. During a bond hearing last Thursday before District Judge...
"It was beyond everything I expected," is how Kay Wagner explained Saturday's clean-up day at Flomaton Cemetery. In March, Wagner announced that she was working on a plan to bring back 'Decoration Day' and have volunteers come and help clean up the cemetery. She said 'Decoration Day' began in 1868 after the Civil War ended and was set aside for people to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. Over the years, the Saturday before Mother's Day was set aside as the clean-up day. "The...
