The Century Branch Library located at 7991 N. Century Blvd. in Century, one of Escambia County’s West Florida Public Libraries, has partnered with Feeding the Gulf Coast to provide free curbside pickup meals for youth ages 18 and under at all...

Escambia River Electric Cooperative (EREC) lobbies in both Walnut Hill and Jay, Fla., are now open. The lobbies of both facilities were closed in March to protect community health during the peak threat of COVID-19. EREC advises members to continue...

Even before the onset of COVID-19, scams and fraud ran rampant in many parts of society. More often than not, many of these cases involve older adults. In fact, older adults lose billions of dollars each year because of scams or fraud. “Given...

Beginning last Monday, June 1, passengers have and will be encouraged to wear face masks while riding Escambia County (Fla.) Area Transit buses (ECAT). If a rider does not already have a mask, ECAT employees will offer a mask to the passenger...

Just now I ate a tomato sandwich for breakfast. I like my WHITE bread so fresh it limps. I LOVE Dukes mayonnaise. I was converted from Kraft by a new recent friend Sean Dietrich. He made it so tempting I went looking, found it and now I'm hooked....

Charles Plumb was a US Navy jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent six years in a communist Vietnamese prison. He...

Most of this story about dog days is from a few years ago, but with us at the beginning of the meteorological summer that runs from June 1 until August 31 unlike the astronomical summer that runs from June 20 until September 22, 2020. I thought...

Trayton Gage Adams, 6, of Flomaton, died Thursday, May 28, 2020. Master Adams was a native of Brewton and lifelong resident of Flomaton. He attended the New beginnings and Flomaton Freewill Baptist Church, as well as the Friendship Learning Center...

Linda Mae Findley, 68, died Wednesday, May 27, 2020, in Pensacola. Mrs. Findley was a native of Atmore who had resided in Century for most of her life. She was retired from the Escambia County (Fla.) School Board as a bus driver, with more than 20...

Solomon “DJ” Odom, 87, died Monday, May 25, 2020. Mr. Odom was born Sept. 20, 1932, to Judia S. Odom. He attended the Damascus Baptist Missionary Church and was affectionately known as 'DJ' for many years of playing gospel music on the radio. A...

Ronnie Smith, 65, of Brewton, died Sunday, May 31, 2020, in a Pensacola hospital following a brief illness. Mr. Smith was born April 18, 1955, to William and Pauline Graves Smith, in Brewton. He attended the Potters House Church and W.S. Neal High...

James “Doug” McLemore, 79, died Thursday, May 14, 2020. Mr. McLemore was born March 3, 1941, to Abraham Johnson and Jinnie Mae Bright, in Atmore. A 1955 graduate of Carver Miller High School, he was a U.S. Army veteran with nine years of...

James Earl Moye, 67, died Sunday, May 24, 2020, in Bluff Springs, Fla. Mr. Moye was born Sept. 24, 1952, to Leroy and Devere Moye, in Century, Fla. and lived in Flomaton for most of his life. A member for 43 years and former youth leader of Calvary...

Mark Edward Ross, 62, of Fort Payne, Ala., died Saturday, May 30, 2020, following a brief illness. Mr. Ross was born Sept. 24, 1957, to Leon and Joi Gorum Ross in Evergreen, Ala. A long-time resident of Brewton, coming from Fort Payne, he was a...

Maude Watson Thomas, 82, of Atmore, died Sunday, May 31, 2020, at a West Florida hospice facility in Pensacola. Mrs. Thomas was a native of Escambia County, Ala., and lived in Mt. Vernon, New York when she married. Eventually relocating back to...

Patsy Jane Pierce Crutchfield, 69, of Brewton, died Thursday, May 28, 2020 following a brief illness. Mrs. Crutchfield was born June 27, 1950, in Brewton, where she was a lifelong member and 1968 graduate of W.S. Neal High School. A member of the...

Benjamin “Mack” McGowin Stone, 80, of Damascus, Ala., died Monday, May 25, 2020, in a local hospital following a brief illness. Mr. Stone was born June 9, 1939, in Century and became a lifelong resident of Brewton. He attended Damascus School...

We didn't know Trayton Gage Adams. What we know now is the 6-year old Flomaton resident died last Thursday afternoon when a four wheeler turned over with him as a passenger. You didn't have to know Trayton for your heart to sink when you heard the...

Another legislation session has passed, and Alabama still has no lottery. Actually, the legislature does not in itself have the authority to pass a state lottery, they can only authorize a ballot initiative to let you vote on a lottery. It takes a...

On Memorial Day, the nation was shocked when a horrific video went viral showing the callous senseless killing of a man on the pavement already in hand cuffs. George Floyd was being arrested for allegedly trying to pass counterfeit money. Video...

I was a young teenager in the late 1960s, but I remember the riots and violence that occurred around the country, and especially in the large cities. I was concerned that we were headed down that road again with racial violence around the country...