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The same grand jury that indicted District 6 Escambia County (Ala.) School Board Member Sherry Digmon on three felony charges also filed a report stating Digmon should be impeached and removed from office. The grand jury indicted Digmon, 72, owner of the Atmore News and Atmore Magazine, on felony charges of revealing secret grand jury information. She was also indicted by the grand jury for using her position as a school board member for personal gain, for the school system paying for...
Flomaton and Century fire departments were dispatched 4813 Old Atmore Road shortly before noon Saturday after the burning of a large vegetative and limb debris pile began to spread, bringing warnings from Flomaton Fire Chief Steve Stanton and the Alabama Forestry Commission not to burn in these extreme dry conditions. Stanton said firemen first attacked the spreading fire and then extinguished the large brush pile. "It was close to spreading to a nearby tree line and then there's no telling how...
The Century Town Council planned a special meeting for 6 p.m. this Thursday, Nov. 9, following a presentation by the owner of a municipal consulting company who responded to the town's request for proposals (RFPs) for a possible interim town manager last September at the council meeting Tuesday night. Howard Brown, Jr., owner and president of Local Government Consulting Group out of West Palm Beach, Fla., originally from Pensacola, has worked as a city manager in California, Oklahoma and...
In conjunction with the city of Brewton's PorchFest this Saturday, the Brewton Council of the Arts will be hosting the Lee Bain Brewton Invitational Art Show from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 623 Belleville Ave. PorchFest will be from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. along the 600 block of Belleville and Evergreen avenues. Bain came to Brewton in the 1970s through a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Alabama State Council on the Arts and Humanities. The grant was made possible by private funds and...
