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Over the years covering hundreds of county commission meetings and city council meetings the most complaints I've heard expressed was the condition of roads, bridges and ditches. Those complaints have ranged from needing dirt roads paved, to filling potholes or resurfacing roads. The standard answer most of the complainers received was either 'we'll get to it when the can' or simply 'we don't have the money'. It was about 15 or so years ago, the four-laning of Highway 31 from Flomaton to Atmore...
We don't want to sound like we're crying wolf every time a hurricane comes out of the Caribbean and has a potential to cause issues in our area, but we still want to inform people of the possibility and tell them that they need to stay on top of the storm by monitoring the National Weather Service and the local television and radio stations. By time our next newspaper comes out next week, Hurricane Dorian will have likely made landfall and it will be too late for us to issue any warnings in our print edition. As in the past, we monitored the...
Four local students, Savannah DuBose of Flomaton and Morgan Manning, Jones Manning and Amber Terry of Brewton, joined more than 200 Troy University students who studied around the world during the summer semester in 2019. Students studied in various programs on four continents in nearly 20 different countries to earn academic credit as well gain international awareness. DuBose and the Mannings studied in London, while Terry studied in Italy. Takeysia McFugerson of Brewton has been named to the Chancellor's List at Troy University for the...
