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A 45-year old Daphne resident was shot and killed in an apparent hunting accident early Tuesday in the Huxford community, but the investigation into the death continues. Escambia County (Ala.) Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Mike Lambert said dispatchers received a 911 call about 9 a.m. Tuesday of the shooting at a hunting club near Prestwood Bridge Road. When officers arrived they found he body of Darren Smith, who apparently died from a single gunshot wound from a high-powered rifle. Lambert...
A single-vehicle crash at 1:45 p.m., Wednesday, January. 17, has claimed the life of a Brewton woman. Tressa Mechell Richards, 42, was killed when the 2003 Pontiac Grand AM, in which she was a passenger, lost control driving over a patch of ice on the roadway and overturned into a creek. The vehicle was driven by Norma Jean Jerkins, Brewton, who sustained minor injuries and was taken to Andalusia Regional Hospital along with passengers, Regina Kay Stanford and a 6 year old child. Richards was...
A suspect in a home invasion in Century Sunday was taken into custody Monday outside his Flomaton residence and now faces additional drug charges in Alabama. Anthony Williams, 51, 867 Martin Luther King Drive, Flomaton, was charged with home invasion robbery with a firearm and criminal mischief in Escambia County, Fla., and faces charges of unlawful possession of a controlled substance and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia in Escambia County, Ala. According to police reports, Williams...
Escambia County (Ala.) District Judge Jeff White has announced he will be a candidate for the circuit judge seat being vacated by retiring Circuit Judge Bert Rice. White, 53, said he will seek the Republican nomination for the circuit seat in the June 5 Republican Primary. "I think I have something to offer based on my experience," White said. "I'm a native of Escambia County and I understand the complex issues facing our judicial system." A 1983 graduate of Flomaton High School, White...
Flomaton police were dispatched to Lambeth Church Tuesday to assist the Escambia County Sheriff's Office on a suspicious person call and ended up arresting a Flomaton man on drug charges after he was found to be in possession of methamphetamine. Adam Cozart, 39, 6800 Upper Creek Road, was charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance and transported to the Escambia County Detention Center on $10,000 bond. According reports, the sheriff's office received a call about a suspicious...
The Rev. Janet Lee was surrounded by parishioners of Century United Methodist Church this past Sunday for the official groundbreaking of the new church on Church Street. The old church, built in 1902 suffered damage beyond repair in the February, 2016 tornado. For more see our Photo Gallery....
Coaches from Flomaton, Northview and Jay selected their All Tri-City football team for the 2017 season. For a complete list of the players selected see Page 6A....
When Doug Jones was campaigning for the U.S. Senate he maintained the entire time that he would go to Washington, D.C., and work with both Democrats and Republicans to create a bi-partisan Congress to move the nation forward. The eyes of the nation were focused on Alabama with Democrat Jones facing Republican Roy Moore in a runoff. Alabama had not sent a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in more than 25 years and most of the so-called political experts had predicted that the winner of the Republican...
Since coming to Washington, there have been several times when it felt like I was banging my head against the wall in frustration. One of those times was during the recent, senseless government shutdown. Last Friday at midnight, the entire federal government shutdown after the Senate failed to pass a bill to continue government funding. The bizarre thing was that Democrats did not disagree with a single provision in the bill. Instead, Senate Democrats wanted a provision included in the bill to effectively grant amnesty to individuals in our...
As the 2018 state elections begin, let’s take one last look at the 2017 Special Election to fill the remaining three years of Jeff Sessions’ six-year term which, by the way, comes up in two years in 2020. It is assumed by most astute political observers that the winner, Democrat Doug Jones, cannot win election to a full term in 2020, simply because he is a Democrat. I am not ready to write Doug Jones off so quickly. I would contend that Jones would not be a cupcake to take on after two to three years on the job. Doug Jones knows what he is doin...
It has been 45 years since the awful Roe Versus Wade ruling that legalized abortion across the nation. The evil magnitude of this miscarriage of justice is really unfathomable when one considers some 60 million unborn babies have been murdered in the United States of America since 1973. Difficult to grasp, but we have literally exterminated about 18% of our population for the convenience of the rest. Anybody want to explain that on Judgment Day? Generally, abortion advocates don’t believe in Judgment Day, so that argument falls short. A...
The Century Town Council reviewed the town's current bill list presented by Town Clerk Leslie Howington and CPA Robert Hudson before approving it at Monday night's meeting. The total amount was $107,616.09, before grant monies of $39,582.25 reduced the final amount to $68,033.84 for bills starting in Nov. through Jan. 22. The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Drainage Project Fund total is $39,582.25; the gas fund total is $33,134.94; the general fund total is 10,070.81; the Up Front...
Escambia County (Ala.) residents wishing to run on the Democratic ticket for local elections in the June 5 primary can begin qualifying Friday by contacting Escambia County Democratic Party Chairman Mike Godwin. Qualifying for state races and the local Republican primary began Jan. 8. Qualifying for both parties will end on Feb. 9 Local candidates seeking office on the Republican ticket need to contact Jackie Gay at 251-809-4322 and those seeking to run on the Democratic ticket need to contact Godwin at 251-867-7724. Godwin said information on...
A Walnut Hill man was arrested Jan. 20 when law enforcement conducted a traffic stop on Highway 97 discovered drug residue and paraphernalia during a pat down of his person. Stephen Eugene Freeman, 51, 9730 Highway 97, was arrested after law enforcement stopped his wife's vehicle during a traffic stop on Highway 97 at Ficklin Road and discovered drug paraphernalia and residue that tested positive for marijuana and methamphetamine according to an Escambia County (Fla.) Sheriff's Office report....
The Brewton Council of the Arts will present The Bretts at 7 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 27, at the Woodfin Patterson Auditorium on the campus of Coastal Alabama Community College (formerly Jefferson Davis) in Brewton, Alabama. The Bretts offer a dazzling and unique experience that combines music, comedy, video, lighting, and dance that you will not soon forget. Entertaining audiences for nearly 20 years, their show mixes original music with chart-topping hits and timeless classics. In addition, their show has been chosen as the #1 patriotic show in...
A Jay man is facing drug charges after law enforcement responding to a suspicious loitering complaint on Jan. 22 discovered methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia on his person. Dexter Darrel Biggs, 40, 4529 Darney Road, was arrested and charged with one count felony possession of a controlled substance without a prescription and one count drug paraphernalia following a search of his person in response to a complaint of a man acting suspiciously at the intersection of Neal Jones Road and Water...
In 2007 I was fortunate enough to have many residents and friends of Canoe help put together a history of the town and thereafter Canoe: History of a Southern Town was published. One of the more intriguing sections for me was the story of the Canoe bank, which according to many of those interviewed, never opened. Yet due to several developments in research, it has now come to this writer's attention that it did indeed open. Canoe's bank building would later be used as a school annex, and element...
I accidentally gave Jerry Fischer back his copy of Wray Lane's remembrance of Century in the 1930's and I have too much brain fog from my coughing episodes to think of anything original, so I mined for ideas in the 2005 Tri City Ledger columns on the Alger Sullivan Historical Society website. Our other Jerry to the rescue (Jerry Simmons): As part of a column Jerry wrote in April 2005 he told this story of how his brother Eddie came to be Century High School's Junior High football coach. “Eddie also tells another story that few people outside h...
September 1947 Before hurricanes were named, one called the Fort Lauderdale Cyclone, hit Miami and traveled the Gulf Coast toward the Mississippi/Louisiana coast line. New Orleans was tumbled about and my world at Barnett Crossroads, Alabama got slammed with side winds. I had started school at the first of the month as a first grader at A. D. Kelly in Wallace. I didn't know a hurricane from a rain storm. I did understand something different was coming for us as Daddy and Mama put everybody into the cotton patch to try and gather what hadn't...
Are you anxious to lose weight in a friendly competitive way? Well join us at our Scaleback Alabama Weigh-In site! The Escambia County Extension Office is a Scale Back Alabama Weigh-In Site once again! The Scale Back Alabama program officially kicks off on January 22nd and the Escambia County Extension office at 175 Ag Science Drive (right behind Southern Pine Electric Co-op) is an official weigh-in site again this year. Participants are welcome to stop by the Extension Office during weigh-in week, January 22nd-28th, anytime during business...
Christopher Nolin DeFee, 36, died Friday, Jan. 5, 2018 in Mobile. Mr. DeFee was a native and lifelong resident of Atmore. He was a member of the New Beginnings Ministry. The funeral was held at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 10, at Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral Home with Rev. Thurl Pearson officiating. Burial followed at Rocky Hill Cemetery with Petty Eastside Funeral Home directing. Mr. DeFee is survived by one son, Christopher Michael “Mikey” Defee of Atmore; his mother, Darlene DeFee of Atmore; one sister, Kayla Miranda Smith of Atmore; and num...
Willie Frye, Jr., 73, of Atmore, died Friday, Jan. 12, 2018. The funeral was held at 1 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 20 at Grace Fellowship Church with Bishop Henry Frye, Jr. of Camden, Ala. officiating. Burial followed at Stall worth Cemetery with Turner Funeral Chapel directing....
Annie P. Grimes, 67, of Atmore, died Tuesday, Jan. 16 at Atmore Community Hospital. Funeral service will be announced at a later time with Turner Funeral Chapel directing....
William Jasper “W.J.” “Bill” Hall, 83, died Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018 in Brewton. Mr. Hall was born in Conecuh County, Ala. and had been a lifelong resident of the Brewton area. Owner and operator of W.J. Logging Company and Hall's Tree Service for several years, he was of the Baptist faith. The funeral was held at 2 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 18, at the chapel of Craver's Funeral Home with Bro. Steve Breceda officiating. Burial followed at Union Cemetery with Craver's Funeral Home directing. Mr. Hall is survived by his wife of 63 years, Barbara...
Sandra Harris, 62, died Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017, in Montgomery after a long illness. Mrs. Harris was born Sept. 17, 1955 to Nathan and Henrietta Reynolds in Mobile. A member of True Light Baptist in Prichard, Ala. as a youth, joining Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist in Prichard and then Assembly of God in Shreveport, La., she worked as an LPN more than 30 years. The funeral was held at 1 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 13, at Robinson Christian Memorial Funeral Home in Atmore with Elder Johnnie M. Bryant officiating. Burial followed at Stallworth Cemetery...
