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When baseball returns at Flomaton High School the Hurricanes will have a new coach at the helm with Tuesday's hiring of Coy Campbell, Jr., who will take over the baseball program. The Escambia County School Board approved the transfer of Campbell from W.S. Neal High School as a driver's education and physical education instructor. He will also be the head baseball coach. Flomaton Principal Scott Hammond said Keith Nall, who was serving his first year as the Hurricanes' coach this year before...
A Jay man is facing a felony sexual battery charge on a victim less than 12 years of age following an investigation about an incident that happened two years ago. George Michael Rasmussen, 40, 2880 Cobbtown Road, was arrested April 23 after law enforcement concluded its investigation of a sexual battery complaint filed in 2020 that occurred in 2018, according to a Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office report. The report said the alleged victim was at a sleepover and bonfire in Jay on Jan. 17, 2020...
The success of Saturday's food giveaway in Flomaton has prompted the town to do it again this Saturday and Mayor Dewey Bondurant, Jr., said he hopes to the program will continue another two weeks. Bondurant said more than 300 boxes of food were given away during Saturday's drive-thru at the Flomaton Community Center. With donations from the community, the town purchased a tractor-trailer full of food for $1,500 and volunteers were on hand to divide the food into boxes. This week's giveaway will...
The Atmore Police Department is asking the public to help identify the person or persons responsible for the death of an Atmore man whose body was found early Saturday near the Patterson Street Apartments. Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks said the police department received a 911 call at 1:24 a.m. April 25, in reference to a person who had been assaulted and suffered what appeared to be a gunshot and stab wound. Atmore police and Atmore Ambulance Service were immediately dispatched near the 200...
Beth Drew, who has spent the past 37 years with the Escambia County (Ala.) School System that included 14 years as a teacher and assistant principal at Flomaton Elementary School, is retiring July 1 from her current position as assistant superintendent. Drew, 61, is a native of Walnut Hill and a 1976 graduate of Ernest Ward High School. After attending Pensacola State Junior College, she received her bachelor's degree in elementary education at Troy University and her master's degree in...
As I talked to people prior to Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey's address Tuesday about what the state was going to do in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, I predicted she would do a 'soft-opening'. I also told people I could probably write that story before she made her speech and I wouldn't miss it by much. I was right on both points. The one point I would have missed was the opening of the Alabama beaches along the Gulf Coast. But like the most of the changes, it was a soft change. Her new order says t...
It's easy to say Flomaton Police Chief Chance Thompson and Flomaton Volunteer Fireman Hunter White were just doing their jobs last Wednesday when the two saved the life of a 4-year old child caught inside a burning vehicle. They both took their respective jobs to protect the public. That's what they do. But Thompson is not a fireman and White doesn't get paid a dime to be a fireman. There is a 4-year old little boy walking around in Flomaton today because of the actions Thompson and White took last Wednesday afternoon. Had Thompson not been on...
Students returning to Escambia County Middle School in Atmore next fall will see a new principal after the Escambia County (Ala.) Board of Education approved the retirement of Principal Debra Bolden during Tuesday's board meeting. Bolden, a native of Birmingham, served as principal at ECMS for four years, from 2016 to 2020. “We made a lot of progress during that time,” said Bolden. “I worked with a very dedicated, hard-working staff and the community supported us. Because of them and the centr...
The town of Jay continues working on several projects during the COVID-19 pandemic, as crews install water lines, repave streets, pour sidewalks and begin clearing to work on the Bray-Hendricks Park project. The Spring Street sidewalk project is underway thanks to Santa Rosa County Commissioner Don Salter's designation of $200,000 discretionary funds. According to Jay Operations manager Eric Seib, the project should be completed during the summer of before school starts. The sidewalk connects...
The long-awaited resurfacing of U.S. Highway 31 within the city limits of Brewton is scheduled to begin in June with the Alabama Department of Transportation saying the majority of the work will be done at night during low traffic. State Rep. Alan Baker and State Sen. Greg Albritton notified the city Friday that the state had awarded a $1.5 million contract to H.O. Weaver & Sons of Mobile to do the project. Sen. Albritton said it's been a project he has been working on for months and was happy...
At the video conferenced meeting of the Escambia County (Ala.) Board of Education meeting Tuesday, Superintendent John Knott gave updates on several issues and board members discussed the status of the COVID-19 social distancing mandate. Knott said the board received a letter from Frazier Lanier Company regarding a lawsuit involved in the refinancing of a bond issue for the renovation of the W.S. Neal High School auditorium. The letter stated that the company is preparing all items to move...
