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Escambia County (Ala.) Sheriff Heath Jackson said the death of an inmate in the detention center on July 23 was not related to COVID-19 but did confirm 10 to 13 inmates in the Brewton facility had tested positive for the coronavirus. Jackson said jail staff was conducting a cell check on July 23 when they found the unresponsive inmate. “The inmate was pronounced deceased at the scene from what appeared to be natural causes,” Jackson said. Jackson also said as normal protocol for all in-...
Century Town Hall closed its lobby doors last Friday, July 24, for the health and safety our its staff and public following two employees who tested positive for COVID-19. “I'm bringing one person in a day, but only to answer the phone,” said Century Mayor Henry Hawkins. “We are taking payments, through the drop-box, we are doing what we've got to do. We cannot take cash because there is only one employee present and they will not be in a face-to-face situation, so there is no way to prove the a...
Chance James, 18, was a member of Flomaton High School's 2018 championship football team, but the 2019 FHS graduate had other mountain's to climb, which included his love and devotion to Jesus Christ. This past Saturday, James put a cross on his back and began a walk from the Atmore Country Club to the parking lot of Flomaton High School. He said he didn't realize it at the time, but the walk down Highway 31 from Atmore to the high school was 17 miles – the number he wore as a member of the H...
At the Escambia County (Ala.) Board of Education meeting last Thursday, School Superintendent John Knott updated board members on this year's opening of schools, what federal funds are available to help curve the spread of COVID-19 and how they are being spent with school bells ready to ring Aug. 7. With three options of traditional, remote learning and virtual program for students to choose from for this coming school year, students who choose remote learning will be on a scheduled, placed...
Walnut Hill resident Ed Hudson spent 34 years in law enforcement and was an investigator trailing Century resident Freddie Crow and his marijuana-smuggling operation from Belize in Central America to the Florida gulf coast which helped lead to arrest of Crow and others. A friendship developed between Hudson and Crow after Crow's conviction which prompted Hudson to write a book. Entitled 'As the Crow Flies, a Redemptive Story of an International Drug Smuggler' will be released on Sept. 1. After C...
Sam LoDuca from T.R. Miller High School, and Robbins Manning from Excel High School from Excel High School, along with several other students around the state,were appointed by Alabama Congressman Bradley Byrne when he released the following statement announcing his 2020 service academy appointments. Byrne said: “I am pleased to congratulate these remarkable young men and women upon their appointments. Our nation’s continued prosperity is only possible through the willingness of so many brave Americans to serve, and the people of Southwest Ala...
Beginning Wednesday, July 29, Century Branch Library, located at 7991 N. Century Boulevard, is now offering a bottle of hand sanitizer in addition to face masks as part of Escambia County’s public health campaign, "Mask Up, Escambia!" The library is open Monday through Friday, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. The campaign, which began July 1, is focused on informing residents and visitors that masks are recommended by the CDC to protect others. In addition to a 2 ounce hand sanitizer bottle, the public may continue to pick up a free mask while supplies l...
D.W. McMillan Memorial Hospital announced that Aleigh Taylor, CRNP and Natalie Young, CRNP, have both joined the staff of the D.W. McMillan Medical Center. They will begin seeing patients beginning in August 2020. “We are very fortunate not only to be adding one, but two nurse practitioners to the D.W. McMillan Medical Center,” stated Rick Owens, hospital administrator. “We continue to draw closer to the clinic opening and our provider group has come together to form an outstanding team. Both...
The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) was informed via self-reporting that two staff members from Fountain and Holman Coorectional Facility out of seven additional staff members across the state have tested positive for COVID-19, as of 12 p.m., Friday, July 17. These individuals promptly self-quarantined under the direction of their healthcare providers. The ADOC’s Office of Health Services (OHS) has initiated investigations to determine which, if any, ADOC inmates or employees may have had direct, prolonged exposure to these staff m...
To be honest, I don't think I'd ever heard about 'Black Lives Matter' until George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis and a white police officer named Derek Chauvin was arrested after numerous videos showed the officer kneeling on Floyd's neck while Floyd screamed he could not breathe. But I did learn that the Black Lives Matter movement first began in 2013 after George Zimmerman shot an unarmed 17-year old black teenager named Travon Martin in February, 2012. But I do wonder what Black Lives...
Although we weren't sold on face masks in the beginning we've learned to accept them. To not only protect ourselves but to protect others. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey issued a mandatory face mask order for people in public. We see some with masks, we see others without. We know some stores won't let you in the door without a mask and others that don't care. School bells for the Escambia County (Ala.) School System are still set to ring next Friday, they say we're playing high school and college football and everybody seems to think things are back...
Last week I had a virtual conference with the leaders of the local school systems in our district. Starting a new school year is a difficult task in the best of times. Doing so in the middle of a pandemic with the disease spreading as it is now makes this normally difficult job truly daunting. I greatly appreciate what these leaders and their staffs are going through. Over $500 million of the CARES Act money Congress sent to Alabama will be used to help schools deal with COVID-19, and the purpose of our call was to bring them up to speed on...
The presidential race is onward. It will be incumbent Republican Donald Trump vs. former Vice President and 36-year veteran Democrat, Delaware U.S. Senator Joe Biden in the November 3rd General Election. Both men have clinched their parties’ nomination. Therefore, the Democratic convention, July 31-August 2 and the Republican convention set for August 25-28 will be anticlimactic. It is doubtful that either convention will break any television rating records. However, there will be one record shattered in this year’s presidential contest. Tru...
In 2016 when Fox’s Chris Wallace asked Candidate Trump if he would accept the election results and he simply said he would have to consider the circumstances at that time, Hillary Clinton howled that’s “horrifying.” Then she, Obama, and every other wannabe Democrat pundit lectured Trump about the Constitution and boasted how loyal they have been to our electoral process. They breathlessly warned Americans that Trump was a renegade that would not abide by the Constitution nor accept the will of the people. The irony is incredible and comical...
