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Escambia County (Ala.) will get a share of $192,264 awarded by Gov. Kay Ivey to Community Action Agency (CAA) of South Alabama to assist low-income and elderly residents with improvements to their homes to lower energy costs and improve home safety. CAA serves Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Marengo, Monroe and Wilcox counties. Ivey awarded a total of 14 grants totaling $2.9 million to support Alabama’s Weatherization Assistance Program which provides funds to keep homes warmer in the winter and cooler in summer and makes them more ene...
The U.S. Treasury Department recently gave a $6 million community development award to United Bank, in Atmore, in south Alabama, one of the largest awards in the department’s Capital Magnet Fund program. The Capital Magnet Fund promotes investment in affordable housing and related economic development efforts that serve low-income families and low-income communities across the country. The awards go to Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Funds such as UB Community Bank, the Atmore bank’s CDFI. United Bank was one of only 38 ent...
The 2020 Statewide “Don’t Drop It On Alabama” Spring Cleanup will be held the entire month of April. The cleanup is held annually and coordinated by Alabama PALS (People Against a Littered State), which also coordinates and implements the Alabama Coastal Cleanup (partnership with ADCNR), the Alabama Clean Campus Program, the Alabama Adopt A Mile and Adopt A Stream programs (partnership with ALDOT) statewide. Each of these efforts are made possible through partnerships with business and industry, state associations, and state agencies that...
Children's of Alabama launched a new mobile application designed to identify toxic plants and venomous and poisonous animals today, offering Alabamians a simple resource to identify potentially dangerous plants, insects, snakes and common household items from a mobile device. The app, entitled ‘Poison Perils of Alabama’, is free and can be downloaded for both iOS and Android devices. The resource was designed to make parents, grandparents, teachers and other caregivers aware of the plants, snakes, insects and household items that the Ala...
As part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act passed by Congress and signed into law March 27, 2020 by President Donald J. Trump, the local community will receive a combined total of $1,325,041 in Community Development Block Grant funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Escambia County will receive an allocation of $872,881 in funding, and the City of Pensacola will receive an allocation of $452,160. This funding distribution through HUD consists of $2 billion of an overall $5 billion allocation...
In the song labeled 'Henry the VIII' it repeats the line saying the second verse is same as the first. It's a song that can drive you crazy. But as we enter the Fourth of July weekend we want to remind people of something we put in this spot every time the Fourth of July come around. Fireworks are small bombs. Over the past several years we've have people seriously injured, some who have lost fingers due to fireworks. Fireworks are great; we all love them. But we must also realize that one-second loss of judgement can mean serious injury or...
Although no action was taken, the Century Council Monday night by telecom agreed to consider a power franchise fee increase, not updated since 1994, for both Gulf Power and Rural Electrification Administration (REA), which includes Escambia River Electric Co-operative (EREC). Councilman Luis Gomez asked how Century's rate compared to that of other municipalities, such as Milton, Gulf Breeze, Jay and Pace. Century Interim City Manager Vernon Prather told council members he would research other...
A Walnut Hill man was arrested June 29 and faces felony charges of sexual battery on a minor between Feb. 1 and April 25, following an investigation. Joshua Edward Vihnanek, 24, 7840 Rockaway Creed Road, was arrested when a female minor, between 12 and 16 years of age, gave consistent statements regarding the sexual relationship she had with Vihnanek, according to an Escambia County Sheriff's Office report. Authorities made contact with a third party witness on April 27 in reference to a sexual...
The Alabama Department Of Corrections (ADOC) was informed via self-reporting that three (3) staff members employed at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore as well as: two (2) staff members at Birmingham Community Based Facility/Community Work Center in Birmingham, Alabama; one (1) staff member employed at St. Clair Correctional Facility in Springville, Alabama; one (1) staff member employed at North Alabama Community Based Facility/Community Work Center in Decatur, Alabama; and one (1) staff member employed at Kilby Correctional Facility in...
The Alabama Power Foundation and the ABC Trust have pledged $1 million to provide support to communities affected by coronavirus. The foundation and trust are partnering with agencies including the American Red Cross, Salvation Army, United Way and others. The foundation is working with its nonprofit community partners to identify needs and where gaps exist. In addition, the trust is collaborating with community action agencies to address food insecurity, medicine and hygiene needs, and energy assistance. Additional plans to provide community...
A Jay man is facing a felony drug charge after a search Friday of the vehicle he was a passenger in. Christopher Glen Davidson, 42, 6342 Highway 4, was the passenger along with a second passenger, Samantha Madden, in a vehicle driven by Oscar Powers, who was trespassing when he parked in the Jay Hospital parking lot, according to a Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office report. Powers had been told several times not to loiter in the parking lot due to his drug activities and in January of 2020 had...
Coastal Alabama Community College has partnered with Alto Products Corp. for the first machinist apprenticeship in Southwest Alabama. It is the first such partnership in the region to be competency-based and builds on the College’s recent certification as a Department of Labor registered apprenticeship sponsor. For more than 50 years, Alto has manufactured more than a billion friction clutches, steel reaction plates, and powertrain components for automotive, hi-performance, heavy-duty, industrial, marine, and motorcycle applications. Alto is t...
Maverick took advantage of a recent brief shutdown of the Jay Field in the Florida panhandle to perform previously planned, field-wide maintenance, and facility improvements. These actions rendered the field more efficient and even safer. As of Monday, June 22, 2020, the scheduled Jay facility upgrades are complete and production has resumed. According to Maverick’s Sarah Payne, “Safety is of paramount importance to Maverick Natural Resources....
Escambia County (Ala.) School Superintendent John Knott says we will start school on Friday, Aug. 7; we've got dates for the beginning of college football, high school football, major league baseball and basketball. Don't believe what they tell you. I'm not calling Knott a liar. Knott is and his school board are making the best decisions they can with the information they have in front of them. I had already written a story Wednesday morning about some changes Flomaton had made concerning the...
