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Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday To you! Happy Birthday Dear America on your 242nd Birthday! On July 4, 1776, we claimed our independence from Britain and Democracy was born. Each year on July 4th, Americans celebrate that freedom and independence with barbecues, picnics, and family gatherings. It’s our main summer holidays providing a break from school and work, but we shouldn't break from being smart about food safety. More care is needed since foodborne illnesses increase during the summer. July is National Picnic month and summer p...
Brenda Joy “Country” Hudson Allen, 53, died Thursday, June 14, 2018. Mrs. Allen was born March 30, 1965, to Willie Louis and Dorothy Lean Hudson in Dixie Mill, Ala. A 1984 graduate of Escambia County High School in Atmore, she moved to Vallejo, Calif., where she became employed with Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and attended Antioch Church of God in Christ. The funeral was held at 2 p.m., Saturday, June 30, at Destiny Worship Center with Pastor Bernard Bishop officiating. Burial followed at Fairview Cemetery with Christian Memorial Funeral Hom...
Charles Eugene Gilley, 71, died Saturday, July 1, 2018 in Bratt, Fla. Mr. Gilley was a native and lifelong resident of Bratt. He was a retired CSX conductor with 36 years if service and a member of the Bratt First Baptist Church. The funeral will be held at 10 a.m., Friday July 6, at Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral Home with Rev. Otis Thames and Terry Bryan officiating. Burial will follow at Godwin Cemetery with Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral Home directing. Mr. Gilley is survived by his wife of more than 48 years, Rose Gilley of Bratt; one son,...
Patricia Ann Carlson Glass, 88, of Brewton, died Thursday, June 21, 2018 after a lengthy illness. Mrs. Glass was born March 12, 1930, to Harold Ingvar, and Eliza Beth Carlson in Houston, Texas. Graduating as valedictorian at Long Beach City College in California, she met her husband there, Julian P. Glass, who was stationed in the U.S. Navy. The funeral was held at 11 a.m., Wednesday, June 27, at Pentecostal Holiness Church with Rev. Byrnes Pitts and Bro. J. Heath Wilson officiating. Burial followed at Sweetwater, Ala. Mrs. Glass is survived...
Isiah Moorer, 65, died Saturday, June 23, 2018. Mr. Moorer was born Nov. 17, 1952, to S.J. and Lula Mae Moorer in Century, Fla. At age 17, he moved to New York, N.Y., where he worked in a garment factory in Manhattan. He met Barbara Sands while in New York, married her in Century and the two returned to New York. He then began working at the New York City police department until his return to Century in 2007. He attended Bethel A.F.M. Church of God. The funeral was held at 12 p.m., Saturday, June 30, at Bethel A.F.M. Church of God with Elder...
Brenda Gail Green Waggoner, 64, of Brewton, died Tuesday, June 26, 2018 in a Mobile hospital after a brief illness. Mrs. Waggoner was a native of Mobile and lifelong resident of Flomaton. A 1972 Flomaton High School graduate, she worked for AAA Cooper for many years and retired from Veterans Memorial Funeral Services in Houston. She was a member of Friendship Freewill Baptist Church. The funeral was held at 2 p.m., Sunday, July 1, at Friendship Freewill Baptist Church with Revs. Rusty Burnham and Eric Johnson officiating and Williams Memorial C...
Willie James “Youngblood” Williams, 59, died Saturday, June 23, 2018. Mr. Williams was born August 27, 1958 to Ozell Hines and Betty L. Williams. A 1976 graduate of Escambia County High School, he worked for Standard Furniture in Bay Minette for 40 years and was a member of Mt. Gillead Missionary Baptist Church. The funeral was held at 11 a.m., Saturday, June 30, at Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church with Dr. Monroe Tucker officiating. Burial followed at Pierce, Montgomery-Rabb Cemetery in Freemanville with Christian Memorial Funeral Home dir...
Sharon Scarling Worsham, 72, died Thursday, June 28, 2018 in Daphne, Ala. Mrs. Worsham was a native of Dothan, Ala., and former resident of Loxley, Ala. who lived in Daphne for the past 10 years. A retired office manager for the Baldwin County Mental Health with 17 years of service, she was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Daphne. The funeral was held at 11 a.m., Tuesday, July 3, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Burial followed at the Mobile Memorial Garden Cemetery with Petty-Eastside Chapel...
As mentioned last week, the Canoe Highlands Colony remains shrouded in the hazy memory of our area's distant past. S.L. Baker, one of the colony's principal investor's, travelled to Chicago on a regular circuit expounding the benefits of settlement in the colony. Baker's son, Edward, also made trips to Chicago to stir up interest as evidenced by an ad in the Chicago paper, The Inter-Ocean from January 7, 1900: "An Ideal climate, no extremes, no blizzards no cyclones, no sunstrokes, sea breezes...
I got interested in genealogy at a young age and remember sitting around listening to my grandparents and great-grandparents talk about the old folks. With this in mind some of the best advice I ever got was to take a tape recorder with me and record the conversation I had with the older members of the family, of course at that time tape recorders were the size of a medium size suit case and usually came with wheels and had to be plugged into a wall socket. Now most people carry a recorder in their pockets in the form of a cell phone, making...
A favorite holiday of my childhood was celebrated on the 4th of July. That day had to be earned with sweat and bother. Sweat was sweated in the early morning as we had to plant the last of the sweet potatoes. Let me explain that. Mama and Daddy always had a bed of sweet potatoes to grow plants for the start of the acre of those tubers to feed us and anyone else in our neighborhood or kinfolk. We would pull up the plants from the beds to stob down into the rows, the plants grew vines that we took "cuts" from to keep adding so as to fill the...
Charles 'Chuck' Calvin McMullen, who worked with the Escambia County (Ala.) Sheriff's Office at different times from 1989 to September, 2005, and worked as an agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's child sex crimes unit was found guilty last Saturday on nine counts of child sex crimes. A Santa Rosa County jury deliberated about three and a half hours Saturday before finding McMullen guilty of one count of sexual battery of a child under the age of 12, one count of promoting...
Damage to the Escambia County Courthouse in Brewton in December, 2015, from a broken heating and cooling line has led to the discovery of more issues that now has the county commission looking at options that include building a new $13 million courthouse. During an administrative workshop Tuesday Commission Chairman Raymond Wiggins said the courthouse has major issues, which is complicated by asbestos throughout the building. Due to the damage caused by the broken pipe in 2015 the commission...
A Pensacola man who stopped at a Flomaton automative repair shop to get the Wi-Fi turned off because he thought someone was controlling his car ended up in the Escambia County Detention Center on drug charges following a traffic stop by Flomaton police. About 11:51 a.m. last Thursday (June 28), Flomaton police reported they got a call of a driver suspected of driving under the influence. The driver, identified as Bruce Moore Sharron, 55, 22 Via Deluna Drive, Pensacola, reportedly went to...
Atmore resident Jerry Gehman was removed from the Southern Rail Commission following critical remarks about Gov. Kay Ivey's decision not to commit $5.3 million in state funds to help bring back passenger rail along the gulf coast. Gehman, 59, was appointed to the rail commission in 2016 by then Gov. Robert Bentley. The funds from the state of Alabama were needed to jumpstart passenger rail from New Orleans to Mobile with future plans to extend the route through Atmore to Jacksonville and...
The Summer Youth Demonstration Project, provided by the Urban Development Center, held its first graduation in Century on June 29 with six students receiving their diplomas and $200. The Urban Development Center (UDC) is a training and community development tax exempt organization with the trilateral focus of developing workforce, business and organizational capacities within urban communities. The UDC is currently offering pre-employment transition services to students, ages 14 to 21, with...
Friends and family members of Scott Newton braved the storming rain Saturday to help raise $4,600 to help with Newton's medical expenses following a May 11, 2018 experimental plane crash that left him hospitalized until June 29. Held at the Flomaton Fire Station and sponsored in part by MedStar Ambulance, barbecue plates and raffle items helped raise the money. Newton said he had hoped to show up for Saturday's event, but simply couldn't find the strength; however he issued his thanks. "It...
Century Mayor Henry Hawkins, above left, and Century Councilman Luis Gomez were recognized at Monday night's council meeting with certificates for their program completion from the Advanced Institute for Elected Municipal Officials....
A Flomaton man remains in the Covington County Jail after being found asleep in his truck early last Thursday morning with a pipe in his lap. William Jeffrey Geck, 53, 212 North Vanhoosen Road, was charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine), unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia, carrying a pistol without a permit and two counts of failure to appear. According to reports from the Covington County Drug Task Force, Geck was found sleeping in a passenger truck...
A Range man who claimed he was speeding to get home to his pregnant wife was jailed on felony drug charges after an Escambia County Sheriff's Office Deputy observed a bag that contained seven small bags of marijuana in his vehicle. Michael Dalton Kaufman, 19, 4225 Brushy Creek Road, Range, Ala., was charged with attempting to elude and unlawful possession of marijuana I following the eventual traffic stop about 10 p.m. Sunday. According to reports released by the Escambia County Sheriff's...
An Atmore man who ran out of gas on Highway 31 in Flomaton was arrested later on felony charges after being accused of throwing big 'slag' rocks at passing 18-wheelers on Sardine Road, striking at least three in the windshield. Thomas Joseph 'J.T.' Ashcraft, 31, 905 Wayside Road, Atmore, was charged with throwing a deadly missile into an occupied vehicle. According to reports filed by the Escambia County (Ala.) Sheriff's Office, Ashcraft ran out of gas about 3 a.m. Monday in Flomaton on Highway...
The East Brewton Police Department continues its crackdown on illegal narcotics with three more arrests in the past few weeks. Those arrested were: Elisha Michelle Jordan, 47, 1210 Forest Ave., Lot 10, East Brewton, was arrested June 19, and charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine). She was released from the Escambia County Detention Center on $10,000 bond. Heather Dawn Cofield, 44, 9306 North Century Boulevard, Century, was arrested June 29, and charged with...
D and B Builders installed a new steeple on the top of the newly constructed Century First Methodist Church Tuesday morning. The structure is attached securely to the roof of the church with steel bolts that run through steel rods. Several church parishoners watched from the annex across the street where they have met since the 2015 tornado damaged the church....
It makes me cringe every time I hear or read about the 'left' or 'right' of the U.S. Supreme Court. They want to talk about 'conservative' judges vs. 'liberal' judges. Judges should be judges. I'm writing this on July 4, the day the United States celebrates its independence from England. Through that independence we created three branches of government: the executive branch, the legislative branch and the judicial branch. They are supposed to operate as separate branches of government to bring...
The Escambia County (Ala.) Commission has some tough decisions ahead. Those decisions deal with trying to figure out what to do with a courthouse that was built in 1959 that is aging and has issues. We attended Tuesday's administrative workshop and the news was scary. We go to the courthouse several times a week and we see the falling ceilings. We were in the courthouse in December, 2015, when a heating pipe busted open and flooded much of the courthouse. That busted pipe may be a blessing in disguise because it helped reveal multiple problems...
