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Although Flomaton Mayor Dewey Bondurant, Jr., scratched “Discuss formation and/or possible set up of a planning commission” prior to Monday afternoon's council meeting the council adjourned later giving the mayor permission to start the ball rolling on getting a zoning ordinance for Flomaton. Councilman Roger Adkinson said they all knew businesses weren't going to come to Flomaton without zoning so “When are we going to do it”. Mayor Bondurant said he's been working the South Alabama Regiona...
The Flomaton Town Council was expected to approve a 1-cent sales tax increase late Wednesday afternoon after the same body approved an ordinance Monday afternoon to implement the tax increase. The increase will raise the sales tax in Flomaton to 11 percent with town receiving 5 percent, the state receiving 4 percent and the county receiving 2 percent. The first reading of the ordinance passed Monday on a 5-1 vote with Mayor Dewey Bondurant, Jr., and council members Charlie Reardon, Lillian...
A Flomaton man is facing multiple charges following the alleged attempt to steal a vehicle and additional charges were added when correctional officers at the Escambia County Detention Center in Brewton found methamphetamine in his possession. Jesse T. Ellis, 26, 4713 Atmore Road, was charged with attempted theft of property I, breaking and entering a vehicle, possession of burglary tools, criminal mischief I and unlawful possession of a controlled substance. District Judge Eric Coale set his...
Local author Ed Hudson, who wrote the book 'As the Crow Flies: The Redemption of an International Drug Smuggler, will be appearing on the Mike Huckabee Show at 7 p.m. March 20 and 8 p.m. on March 21 to discuss his book. The Mike Huckabee Show is broadcast on the TBN network. Hudson's book follows the late Century resident Freddie Crow who helped operate a marijuana-smuggling operation from Belize to the Florida panhandle. Hudson, a narcotics officer, was the hunter, Crow and others were the...
Coastal Alabama Community College will host a free financial literacy workshop for adults and children from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, March 8, at the college's Atmore campus. Kay Leigh Faircloth, adult education instructional coordinator and Ready to Work instructor, said the workshop will include instruction on planning and saving, credit and debt management, budgets and 'The Road Ahead'. Children ages 7 and up are also welcome to attend. The children will participate in an interactive...
Brewton resident Glenn Freeman retired from the Brewton paper mill in 2019 after 61 years and at 80 years old he continues one of his passions of organizing car shows and will be on hand this Saturday, March 6, with a show at the 5th Annual Collard Green Festival in Evergreen. Held at the Evergreen Regional Airport, the festival will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with a collard green cook off, steak cook off, cow patty bingo, corn hole tournament, plenty of food and crafts and the car show....
Construction is well under way in downtown Brewton for Provalus' new 50,000 square foot office complex that, once complete, will enable the technology company to more than double its current workforce of about 125 employees. General Manager Will Ruzic said the new complex will be tying into Provalus' existing building. He said the complex is being designed to accommodate 300 to 400 employees. "We will have a state-of-the art IT (Information Technology) production building downtown," Ruzic said....
A 52-year old Atmore man was jailed on $200,000 bond on charges of rape II and sexual abuse II for an alleged sexual encounter with a 15-year old girl. Vincent James Simmons, 169 Carver, Ave., appeared before District Judge Eric Coale last Thursday proclaiming his innocence. "I've never been in trouble and I'm not guilty of this," Simmons told the judge. According to court documents Simmons is accused of having intercourse with the underaged girl on or about Nov. 1, 2018. Atmore Police Chief Chu...
An employee with the city of Atmore and another man have been arrested on attempted murder charges for the Feb. 19 shooting of a 58-year old Atmore man. Terry James Burrell, 52, 1145 Old Sardine Road, Flomaton, and Maurice White, 49, were both arrested following an investigation by the Atmore Police Department. Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks said about 6:45 p.m. on Feb. 19, officers responded to the Patterson Street apartment complex in response to a male victim being assaulted with a...
A 47-year old Flomaton man has been arrested on sexual abuse of a child less than 12 years of age for allegedly abusing a 9-year old girl. Michael Obrien Crenshaw, 1079 Jordan Road, was also charged with enticing a child for immoral purposes. If convicted, Crenshaw could face up to 30 years in prison. Court records also show Crenshaw's father, Patrick Crenshaw, 73, is a registered sex offender after pleading guilty on Dec. 14, 2010 to sex abuse of a child under the age of 12. Flomaton Police Chi...
Brewton resident Ray Madden said he yelled 'Oh Hell' seconds before his brand new Ford F-150 slammed head-on with another vehicle Tuesday on Highway 31 west of Flomaton. Madden and his passenger, Anthony Bullard, were heading west on Highway 31 toward Atmore. Robert Brittingham of Flomaton was headed east toward Flomaton. Madden said Brittingham was behind another car and then pulled into his lane as if to pass the other car. Madden said he tried to swerve into the woods, but it was too late as...
A CSX spokesperson said congestion in Mobile is to blame for a train stopped in Flomaton that blocked the College Street crossing for more than five days. The tracks were cleared Tuesday afternoon, but another train was blocking the tracks again Wednesday morning. Cindy Schild, director of public relations for CSX, said the company apologizes for the inconvenience. She said the congestion in Mobile is due to the large quantity of export and import products coming into the port of Mobile. "We do...
An Atmore man who has been wanted since November, 2020, was captured last week in Texas and brought back to Escambia County, Ala., to face murder charges in the Nov. 27 shooting death of 17-year old Richard Shavers. Rodarius Tyrig Dailey, 22, 155 Harris St., was charged with murder. During a bond hearing Monday, District Attorney Steve Billy told District Judge Eric Coale that the case will more than likely be upgraded to capital murder that carries a possible death sentence if Dailey is...
A Flomaton mother and her 6-year old daughter are fine today thanks to multiple events early Tuesday morning that ended when Flomaton firemen rescued the two from a second-story exterior deck while the bottom floor was engulfed in flames. The Flomaton Fire Department received a 911 call from Pamela Yates from her 1071 Twin Bridges Road home about 3:30 a.m. Tuesday that her home was on fire and she and her daughter were trapped. When firemen arrived on the scene, the first task was using a...
Citing falling revenue, including about a $100,000 per year drop in franchise fees from Alabama Power due to the shutdown of Air Products, the Flomaton Town Council voted Monday night to increase the local sales tax by one penny. Councilman Jim Johnson told the council the additional penny will generate about $174,000 per year. The increase would raise the sales tax in Flomaton to 11 percent with the town receiving 5 percent, the state receiving 4 percent and county receiving 2 percent....
Flomaton Councilwoman Kay Wagner said the town needed to come up with a plan to deal with cats and also needs to address people raising livestock inside the town limits. “I challenge everyone in here to come up with some kind of solution for cats,” Wagner said Monday afternoon. “We have an infestation of cats.” She said one of the problems is people feeding the stray cats, especially around the post office. “If we find out people are feeding cats, maybe we need to fine them,” she said. Utilities...
The Escambia County (Ala.) Commission approved the 2021 ad valorem tax rate with no increases in the rate for the current year. The board voted unanimously Monday to adopt the current tax rate. The commission also voted to extend the federal COVID-19 leave plan that expired on Dec. 2020. County Clerk-Administrator Tony Sanks told commissioners that the paid leave provided by Congress last year had expired. Under the act, employees who either had the coronavirus or who had to be quarantined due...
A 51-year old Flomaton man was released on $1 million bond Tuesday after being charged with two counts of attempted murder in the shooting of two other Flomaton men while attending a birthday party Jan. 30. James Scott Lassiter, 337 McMurphy Lane, was charged with shooting Stephen Fletcher Dunsford and Dunsford's nephew, Steven Zachary Dunsford. Escambia County Sheriff Heath Jackson said deputies were dispatched about 8 p.m. Saturday to the 400 block of McMurphy Lane in reference to shots being...
A Flomaton man with a long criminal history, who was on probation in Escambia County, Ala., was arrested Jan. 28 in Escambia County, Fla., on multiple charges that include battery on a police officer, burglary of an occupied dwelling, robbery (carjacking without firearm or weapon), resisting an officer with violence and battery on a police dog. Eric Tyler Mathis, 25, who was listed as homeless by the Escambia County (Fla.) Sheriff's Office, was jailed on a combined bond of $136,000 in Florida,...
An undercover operation by the Brewton Police Department led to the arrest of Michael Lee McCreary on multiple drug charges including the sale and possession methamphetamine, crack cocaine and the prescription drug Alprazolam. McCreary, 35, 1675 South Boulevard, Lot 8, was arrested Jan. 29 charged with two counts of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance, five counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance and one count of unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia. Karie Nicole...
A Brewton man was jailed on $500,000 bond after being arrested on felony rape I charges after he allegedly forced an unidentified female to have sex with him. Calvin Lamar Williams, 47, 60 Williams Drive, was recently booked into the Escambia County Detention Center on the rape charge. According to court records, Williams forced the female to have sexual intercourse by forcible compulsion, which is a Class A felony. District Attorney Steve Billy said if Williams is convicted of the Class A...
An Atmore man told Circuit Judge Todd Stearns that he intentionally violated the Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act in hopes of staying in prison until he was released from having to register as a sex offender again. Antonio Hartley, 28, with an address listed as 309 Dailey St., in the Robinsonville community, was charged with two counts of violating the SORNA. One count states Hartley failed to register as a sex offender with the Escambia County (Ala.) Sheriff's Office upon his r...
Residents living within the McCall Volunteer Fire Department fire district should begin receiving a discount on their homeowners' insurance premium beginning Feb. 1 after the department received an ISO rating of four, which is the lowest score a volunteer fire department can receive. McCall Fire Chief Charles Jackson said the department received notices from the Insurance Services Office (ISO) that the department's Public Protection Classification for its jurisdiction has improved from an ISO 5...
William A. Gorum, Sr., spent his life helping others, whether it was through his 33 years as principal of Huxford Jr. High School, helping establish the Huxford Volunteer Fire Department and the Escambia County Firefighters Association or simply helping people in his community. Gorum, 94, of Huxford, died Jan. 20 but will be remembered for the impact he had on so many people. Billy Hines, Gorum's son-in-law, said he talked to Gorum about a week before he died and had to leave laughing rather...
Flomaton High School senior Riley McMorris was a member of the 2018 Flomaton High School state championship team, but didn't play in the title game at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn. Although he was in awe when he walked into that stadium, that awe drew larger Jan. 18, when he walked into to the Dallas Cowboy's AT&T Stadium as a player in the Blue-Grey All-American Bowl game. "It was awesome, just walking into that stadium," McMorris said. "It was just awesome." McMorris has been a starting...
