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A Walnut Hill, Fla. woman with outstanding arrest warrants is facing one county felony drug possession and other charges following a traffic stop last Thursday. Frances Dorena Jernigan, 60, 5771 Dortch Road, was sitting at the drive up window in a gold Isuzu Rodeo at Gillies Convenience Store at the intersection of Highway 90 and Highway 4 Dec. 5, when law enforcement recognized her from previous encounters and as having outstanding warrants for failure to appear and a suspended driver's...
Two Brewton residents who apparently tried to steal a utility trailer loaded with a motorcycle only to see the trailer come loose from their vehicle were arrested and charged with theft of property I and theft of property III. Brandon Pugh, 26, 1066 McGougin Road, and Kary Nicole Davis, 18, 45571 Highway 31, were both arrested by officers with the Flomaton Police Department. According to reports, police were dispatched Dec. 7 to a residence on Fowler Lane in reference to the stolen trailer. The...
Flomaton police were dispatched to a trespassing call about 1:30 a.m. on Dec. 10 at Pecan Grove Trailer Park and arrested the suspect on drug charges after finding methamphetamine and other paraphernalia in his possession. Eric Mathis, 24, no address listed, was charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance (meth) and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia. According to reports, when police arrived they observed the suspect, later identified as Mathis, running from the police...
The Escambia County (Ala.) Commission presented State Sen. Greg Albritton with two plaques Monday honoring him for sponsoring two bills which commissioners say will be a great help to the county and the state. One bill gives county commission chairmen the authority to declare emergency situations following an official declaration by the governor's office. He noted in the midst of a natural disaster, external conditions often make it difficult for local government bodies to convene a quorum,...
After the Flomaton Town Council voted to seek a Community Development Block Grant to extend sanitary sewer lines to the new precast concrete plant on Highway 31, Councilwoman Lillian Dean said it will only add more waste to the sewer lagoon on Martin Luther King Drive. “When will it stop?” Dean asked. “It's our neighborhood, when are you going to stop?” Mayor Dewey Bondurant Jr., said the town had a study done to construct a waste water treatment plan and the cost estimate was about $3.5 mi...
The Alabama Association of School Boards welcomed Regina Watson, with the Brewton City Board of Education, onto the 2019 All-State School Board last Saturday, Dec. 7, at its state convention in Birmingham. Above, AASB President James Woosley with Watson....
A Brewton man was arrested Nov. 29 and charged with one count felony cocaine possession following a traffic stop. Jonathan Lawrence Drew, 32, 201 Neal St., was traveling west in a silver Nissan Sentra on Highway 4 Nov. 29 when he was observed by a sheriff's deputy crossing over the center line several times, unable to maintain a single lane, according to a Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office report. When the officer conducted a traffic stop, Drew told the officer he forgot his glasses at home...
The Escambia County (Ala.) Board of Education will host a free substitute personnel session beginning at 9 a.m., tomorrow, Friday, Dec. 13, at Atmore Central office, located at 501 S. Pensacola St. in Atmore. Anyone who is currently on the substitute list for the school district and/or wish to become a teacher, teacher assistant, secretary, cafeteria worker, bus driver or custodian, they must attend this training before they can begin substituting for the 2019-2020 school year. No one will be allowed to substitute before attending one of these...
The Fort Mims Chapter of the National Society Daughters, of the American Revolution wishes to announce and congratulate the DAR Good Citizens from three area high schools. The students were selected from the senior class of each school based on qualities of dependability, service, leadership, and patriotism to an outstanding degree. The DAR Good Citizens for the 2019-2020 are gaines Douglas Joel Tanner from Escambia Academy, Brenna Liana Watson from Escambia County High School and Mattie Diane White from Flomaton High School. The DAR Good...
Students at Flomaton Elementary School were inducted into the National Elementary Honor Society last Thursday, Dec. 5. Above, students hold up their certificates. For more, see our Photo Gallery....
The Escambia Board of Education heard updates on the Atmore City 5 mil property tax outcome and approved various items on its agenda at its Thursday, Nov. 21 meeting. The City of Atmore tax of 5 mil property tax that benefits Rachel Patterson Elementary, Escambia County Middle and Escambia County High (ECHS) schools was recently up for renewal and passed by a vote of 116 to 12. “Mr. Murray Johnson worked with us and the city council in really making sure they get this vote out and get a positive...
