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Third grade students at Flomaton Elementary School entertained the crowd Tuesday night with a night of singing and dancing for the school's annual Christmas program. See more pictures in our Photo Gallery....
Chirstmas music filled the FHS auditorium Monday, Dec. 16, as the Flomaton 5th grade, 6th grade and Pollard-McCall bands joined together to play Christmas music for friends and family. For more pictures, see tricityledger.com...
The holiday season is here, and that presents plenty of opportunities for scammers to spoil Alabamians’ celebrations. A few scams are specific to the holidays, but most are variations on everyday frauds, ramped up to match seasonal spikes in spending and web traffic. A recently released AARP survey of adults 18 and older found that more than 70 percent of US adults plan to buy gift cards as presents. More, nearly one in five report that they have either given or received a gift card that had no funds on it, which were likely compromised by a s...
The Century Town Council Monday night approved the purchase of two replacement gear boxes for water treatment plant components, known as clarifiers, in an amount not to exceed $8,000. Of the three clarifiers at the water treatment plant, Vernon Prather said clarifier no. 1 is currently out of service. The drive box was removed from no. 1 and put on clarifier no. 2 when it recently went out, to patch it together and make it work. The drive unit is about 30 years old. Prather said they have...
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...
Inmates at the Escambia County Detention Center in Brewton got an early wakeup call at 5 a.m. Saturday when more than 40 law enforcement officers conducted a shakedown that turned up some contraband, but no cell phones. Escambia County Sheriff Heath Jackson the officers secured the facility and during the search found a small amount of fermented fruit, a small amount of tobacco and two small hand-made weapons. In February, the same type of shakedown resulted in seizing 13 cell phones, four...
The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) Commissioner, Jeff Dunn today announced immediate actions he is taking to significantly mitigate violence in Alabama’s correctional facilities. An internal task force has been established to examine inmate-on-inmate violence as well as alleged excessive use of force by staff. This comes as a result of recent deaths. Commissioner Dunn has directed the task force to assess measures including “Tactics and Techniques” reinforcement training programs, health and wellness interventions for corre...
The Brewton branch of the NAACP will hold its annual Martin Luther King, Jr., parade on Saturday, Jan. 18, and those wanting to participate in the parade need to contact Joe Watson at 251-809-5423. The annual parade honors the late civil rights leader with this year's parade having the theme of 'Reaching Across Barriers'. Lineup for the parade will be at 10 a.m. at the Brewton city garage on Sowell Road and the paraders will leave at 12 noon. It will end at the Fisher Community Center where the...
They simply call him 'Money'. Daquan Johnson, who led Flomaton High School to its first state football championship a year ago, is headed to Duke University in Durham, N.C., to become a Blue Devil in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Money had verbally committed to Troy University months ago. The Duke offer was just too much to pass up. He actually sent his signed letter to Duke at 7 a.m. Wednesday, two hours before the ceremonial signing at the lobby inside Flomaton High School. When I first...
You don't have to be a PETA-loving person to know what Johnathan D. Holliman is accused of doing is wrong. The Brewton man is accused of tying a tracking dog that was in pursuit of him to a tree. OK, we'll give Holliman a little bit of credit. I guess if any of us were running from the law and we had an opportunity to throw the tracking dogs off course, we'd take it. He probably didn't have the pepper used by Cool Hand Luke, but he did what he thought he should do to escape capture. Holliman apparently fled when officers arrived at a...
