They have a New Year's Eve ball drop in New York City and Brewton will drop its blueberry ball the same night. The town of Century dropped the ball last week when the town council voted not to honor a verbal agreement with the Paces Foundation over water and sewer connection fees associated with a $10 million apartment complex in the town.
In 2015, former Mayor Freddie Wayne McCall Sr., and Town Planner Debbie Nickles negotiated the deal to bring the 50-unit apartment complex to Century. Part of the deal included connection fees. McCall and Nickles provided developers with the town's rate stru...