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A Brewton man is being held on $250,000 after being arrested on multiple sex charges against a child under the age of 12. George Newton Pettis, 57, 422 Janice Lane, was arrested last Thursday and charged with sex abuse of a child under 12, enticing a child for immoral purposes and sodomy I. When sheriff's deputies arrested Pettis at his home last week on the sex charges Pettis was also charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine) and unlawful possession of drug...
With snow on the ground, carols in the air, and joy in hearts, crowds showed up to view the 2017 Christmas parade in Jay, Fla., Sat., Dec. 9. Despite the colder than typical temperature, parade goers risked the chill to show up to support the local floats made by churches and other civic organizations. After the parade, the festivities continued with Christmas on Commerce where jolly ole' Saint Nick heard the wishes of tots from the area....
Weather conditions such as the rain, sleet and below freezing temperatures our area encountered in the last week can produce 'black ice' on area roads and bridges, making driving conditions dangerous. Black ice is a thin coat of highly transparent ice that forms when the conditions are right. Bridges are especially susceptible to the formation of black ice because they have cold air passing on top and underneath, making them extra slick. Black ice may have been the cause of a two-vehicle crash l...
So...I'm looking at the weather this past week and all of the sudden I see the potential for snow! Although I have experienced snow many times in my life, anyone who grew up in our area knows how rare it is for us. So I decided to do what any grown man should do and have all my cold weather gear on hand so I could go play once it arrived. All of the sudden my wife says "it's snowing"! My daughter and I jumped up and looked outside and then began the mad dash to put warm clothes on. It was a...
Hey there readers! This past weekend’s weather was sure an unusual event. It’s been so many years since we have seen such a beautiful snow event like we did over the weekend. If you are like me and 45 years old this was the third time I remember in my life that the snow was this thick and stayed with us for a while. The weather certainly made for a beautiful time for Jay’s Christmas parade, and to see all the little ones playing with snow while watching the parade go by and of course getting their candy. We worked on our Church float throu...
Louise Newton Fillingim Dockens, 89, died Friday, Dec. 8, 2017 in Century. Mrs. Dockens was a native of Byrneville, Fla. and had resided in Christian Home, Fla. Since 1976. Retired from Abernathy Hospital with 15 years of service, she was a member of Christian Home Freewill Baptist Church. The funeral was held at 2 p.m., Monday, Dec. 11, at Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral Home with Rev. Chris Hawkins and Bro. Wayne Long officiating. Burial followed at Christian Home Cemetery with Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral Home directing. Mrs. Dockens is...
Johny Bruce Dunsford, 81, of Bluff Springs, Fla., died Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017 at Baptist Hospital in Pensacola. Mr. Dunsford was born in Jay, Fla. and had been a lifelong resident of the Bluff Springs community where he worked as a self-employed brick mason. Of the Baptist faith, he was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. The funeral was held at 1 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 13, at Flomaton Funeral Home Chapel. Burial followed at Cora Cemetery in Jay with Flomaton Funeral Home directing. Mr. Dunsford is survived by two sons, Timothy Dunsford of Jasper,...
Voncile Fountain, of Brewton, died Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. Mrs. Fountain was a 1960 graduate of T.R. Miller and member of the First Presbyterian Church of brewton, as well as the Red hat Society and a volunteer at the D.W. McMillan Hospital Gift Shop. The funeral was held at 2 p.m., Friday, Dec. 8, at Williams Memorial Chapel with Pastors Parker Johnson and Rob Oats officiating. Burial followed at Union Cemetery in Brewton with Williams Memorial Chapel Funeral Home directing. Mrs. Fountain is survived by her husband of 57 years, Wilbur Coleman...
Jewell Hammonds, 76, of Century, died Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017 at West Florida Hospital in Pensacola. Mrs. Hammonds was born in Tipton, Ga. and had been a lifelong resident of the Century community. Employed with Vanity Fair for more than 30 years, she was a member of Happy Valley Holiness Church. The funeral was held at 11 a.m., Sunday, Dec. 10, at Happy Valley Holiness Church in Century with Bros. Raymond Wiggins and Nathaniel Roach officiating. Burial followed at Happy Valley Holiness Church Cemetery with Flomaton Funeral Home directing. Mrs....
Annie Lambert, 91, of Atmore, died Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017 at Atmore Nursing Care. Funeral service for Mrs. Lambert will be announced by Turner Funeral Chapel....
Philip James Nordmeyer, 88, of Brewton, died Sunday, Dec. 3, 2017. Mr. Nordmeyer was born in Glasgow, Mo. And had been a resident of Brewton since 1958. Retired from the U.S. Navy where he served aboard the aircraft carrier, Franklin D. Roosevelt as a navigator and pilot, he was also a flight instructor at N.A.S. Whiting Field and was owner and operator of Jernigan Nordmeyer for several years. He was an active member in the Brewton Rotary Club, served as past president of Exchange Student, was a founding member of First Progressive Bank, where...
In a larger voter turnout than most expected, Alabama appears poised to send its first Democratic U.S. Senator to Washington, D.C., in 25 years following Tuesday's special election that showed Democrat Doug Jones defeating Republican Roy Moore by more than 20,000 votes. While the Jones camp was celebrating Tuesday night, Moore was still holding onto hope and as of Wednesday had refused to concede defeat. Unofficial returns posted on the Alabama Secretary of State's website showed Jones with...
Porcia Leah Godwin Pettis, 94, of the Wallace community, died Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017, afet an extended illness. Mrs. Pettis was a native and lifelong resident of Escambia County (Ala.) who had been a member of Pineview Pentecostal Holiness Church all of her life. A homemaker, she and her husband were owners and operators of Pettis Pole and Logging Company for many years. The funeral was held at 11 a.m., Monday, Dec. 11, at Craver's Funeral Home chapel with Rev. James Peacock officiating. Burial followed at Hanberry Cemetery with Craver's...
Richard “Tip” Tarpley, 85, died Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017 following an extended illness. Mr. Tarpley was born July 28, 1932 in Norwood, Ga. Having attended Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College and the University of Georgia, where he received a Master’s Degree, he was a long time resident of Brewton and worked at the local paper mill in the technical department for 37 years, retiring in 1995. He was a member and deacon of the First Baptist Church of Brewton. The funeral was held at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Dec. 13, at First Baptist Church of Brewt...
Donald Vardon Wilson, 85, died Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017 in Birmingham. Mr. Wilson was a native and former resident of Castleberry, Ala. and had resided in Bay Minette, for the last 67 years. A member of the Mason Bay Minette Lodge II, 32nd degree Scottish Rite and Shriner, the ABBA Temple of Mobile and the American Legion Post #188 of Bay Minette, he was a past member of the Bay Minette VFW. The funeral was held at 1 p.m., Friday, Dec. 8, at Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral Home with Chaplain Grant Dykes officiating. Burial followed at the Bay...
Full-time town of Flomaton employees will receive a $300 Christmas bonus and part-time employees will receive $150 following an unanimous vote by the Flomaton Town Council Monday night. Mayor Dewey Bondurant Jr., said the money, about $10,000, will come out of the town's money market account. “I don't see the reason to give employees a bonus,” said Councilwoman Lillian Dean. Normally in December and January the town is broke. We just gave raises.” Bondurant noted the council gave emplo...
A Milton man who was told he was free to leave a police scene Tuesday afternoon in Flomaton was later charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance when he showed police officers a pill bottle containing Xanax and other pills that he had no prescription for. Mark Leland Musser, 33, 5409 Grand Oak Lane, was placed under arrest and transported to the Escambia County Detention Center. About 12:30 p.m. Flomaton police received a call from United Bank about a fight taking place inside a...
'Simple math tells me if the Democrats show up and the Republicans take the victory for granted, Jones could be headed to Washington' is how I ended a column published Aug. 17, two days after Roy Moore defeated Luther Strange in the Republican runoff for the U.S. Senate. I had people ask me if I really thought Democrat Doug Jones stood a chance since Alabama had shown no inkling of electing a Democrat on a statewide basis for many, many years. It's been 25 years since a Democrat representing...
The Escambia County (Ala.) Sheriff's Office recently solved several burglaries due to 'nosey' neighbors seeing suspicious activity in their neighborhoods. Ask any law enforcement agency and they will tell you most crimes are solved by people coming forward with information. They solve most crimes by people in the community reporting suspicious activity. We've got a lot of great law enforcement officers in this county, as well as Escambia and Santa Rosa counties in Florida. But they can't be everywhere, all the time. The recent burglaries...
The Second Amendment is clear: “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Despite what some may try to argue, the Second Amendment makes clear that the federal government cannot prevent individuals from owning firearms. The vast majority of gun owners point out that their top reason for owning a firearm is self-defense. Studies have shown that violent crime has decreased as gun ownership has increased. Individuals should be trained and prepared to defend themselves should they find themselves in a dangerous situati...
The legendary Speaker of the U.S. House, Sam Rayburn, coined a famous phrase he used often and imparted to young congressmen when they would arrive on Capitol Hill full of vim and vigor. He would sit down with them and invite them to have a bourbon and branch water with him. The old gentleman, who had spent nearly half a century in the Congress, after hearing their ambitions of how they were going to change the world, would look them in the eye and say, “You know here in Congress there are 435 prima donnas and they all can’t be lead hor...
Democrats and the media have been literally screaming about Trump’s Russian collusion at everyone and everything. Barking at the moon, some have actually howled their deep disdain at the sky. Their persistent protests have been obnoxious and almost overwhelming. Ever notice how the loudest accusers are often the very ones actually guilty of their incessant insufferable allegations? Bingo! We are witnessing the most cunning elaborate ruse in modern politics. If you haven’t been paying attention, the whole Russian narrative flipped when the Ura...
One of my favorite things about working at a newspaper is that occasionally I am struck by inspiration and get to pour my thoughts and opinions into a words that get printed. Well, this past weekend provided such inspiration. Snow. Tiny bits of frozen ice crystals falling from the sky building to cover the ground and landscape, seemingly making everything stand still. Growing up in Oklahoma, I had plenty of the white stuff. We usually saw our first snowfall of the year before my birthday in...
The Flomaton Chamber of Commerce welcomed Flomaton Small Engines as a new member in November. Located on Highway 31, the store is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Above, from left, Bo Brntley, Cora Helen Brantley, Jane Woods, Owner Jeremy Bondurant, Catherine Jeter and Flomaton Mayor Dewey Bondurant, Jr....
Someone on Still Farm Road in the Poarch community dialed 911 on Nov. 29 to report a burglary in progress at a neighbor's house that not only resulted in the arrest of an Atmore man but also resulted in solving two more burglaries in the area. Joel Thomas Klinger, 31, 206 12th Ave., was charged with burglary I, possession of burglary tools, theft of property II, burglary III, unlawful possession of a controlled substance (meth) and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia. As of press time he...
