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A Flomaton man arrested Dec. 10 on drug charges was back behind bars Christmas Eve when police officers were dispatched to Jordan Road in reference to a suspicious person standing in the middle of the road looking up at the sky. When police arrived, the suspect, identified as Eric Tyler Mathis, 24, fled officers and was found several hours later inside the bathroom at McDonald's on Highway 113. Flomaton Police Chief Chance Thompson said police received the call of the suspicious person standing...
A New Year should typically bring new hopes and optimism, but we are also upon a new decade. A century ago, the 1920s became the “Roaring 20s!” After a bloody world war to end all wars, Americans were eager for good news. Similar to today, the 1920s were decade of incredible technological innovation and unparalleled prosperity. Americans were rushing out to buy automobiles, radios, and refrigerators. With air travel developing, we were more connected and more mobile than ever before. Inventors were busy bringing us the pop up toaster, the ins...
An Escambia County (Ala.) Sheriff's deputy sustained minor injuries when she crashed her vehicle into trees during a high-speed chase that ended in Florida. Sheriff Heath Jackson said the sheriff's office, Flomaton police and troopers with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency were conducting a driver's license checkpoint on Old Fannie Road Dec. 27 when the accident occurred. Jackson said a vehicle approached the checkpoint about 9:30 p.m. coming from Florida and turned around in a ditch and fled...
Escambia County (Ala.) Circuit Clerk John Robert Fountain said he expects to get the absentee ballots for the March 3 primary elections by Jan. 8, and said people seeking an absentee ballot can fill out an application now. Fountain said as of Jan. 1, he will accept applications for absentee ballots. He said he will hold those early applications until he receives the ballots from the secretary of state's office and then mail them out. “As soon as I get the ballots, I will put them in the m...
Cornelia Miller officially retired on Dec. 20 with 39 and a half years in education but said her job as director of adult eduction for Jefferson Davis Community College, now Coastal Alabama Community College, have been the most fulfilling years of her life. Miller, 57, says she's looking forward to retirement and spending time with a new grandchild, but said she's not going to disappear and will volunteer her time to help others. She is a 1980 graduate of Escambia County High School and...
Ben Murphy hit the stage early Tuesday night in Brewton in the big tent to kickoff a full night of food and entertainement that featured Kirk Jay, who too the stage at 10:30 p.m. and was on hand when the fireworks exploded at at midnight to bring in the new year....
If you are reading this story and have not paid your proper- ty taxes in Escambia County (Ala.) you are now delinquent but do have time to pay those taxes before the property is auc- tioned off in front of the court- house sometime in mid-May. Property taxes were due at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 31. Tax Collector Tim Pettis said pay- ments received in the mail that were postmarked on or before Dec. 31 will be accepted as being paid on time. As of Tuesday morning, Pettis said about $14,300,000 of the...
The Escambia (Ala.) Board of Education dis- cussed possible funding to address mental health in pub- lic schools and local student success before going into exec- utive session at its Thursday, Dec. 18 meeting. School Superintendent John Knott told board mem- bers that the Alabama State Board of Education approved the math course of study, and plans have begun to formulate committees to do the reviews for text book adoption. Knott said now they will start work- ing on the English Language Arts...
We enter 2020 as an election year but for some reason I don't feel the excitement. In about 2 months Alabama voters will be going to the polls to vote in the 2020 primary elections. That date is March 3. Florida's primary elections will be held on March 17. What happened to June primaries? My bet is that the people in Alabama wanted to be ahead of the curve in the presidential election cycle. Many times after a Super Tuesday in March the presidential candidates had been set. Alabama wanted to...
Life is full of opportunities. Sometimes those opportunities coming knocking, but in most instances people wanting to move forward need to be the ones knocking on the door and being prepared when that door opens. This past week we interviewed Cornelia Miller, who has retired with nearly 40 years from the community college, which is now Coastal Alabama. She had multiple positions during her tenure, but it was evident that that past 12 years she spent as director of the college's adult education program were the most rewarding. You can say...
At this time last year, I predicted that the upcoming year with a Democrat majority in the House would be much different. While most activity in the House centered around efforts to impeach our President, I did not let that stop me from fighting for you and our state. One of our most significant victories this year for Alabama was reforming the Medicare wage index formula. For three decades, hospitals in rural states like Alabama have been underpaid in Medicare reimbursements. Upon taking office, I began fighting for a fix. With the election...
As the new year begins, so does a Presidential election year. For several decades, in fact for most of the twentieth century, Alabamians were more interested in state and local politics than presidential politics. In fact, from 1901 through the 1950’s there were more people voting in a Democratic Primary for Governor than in a presidential General Election. The interest in national politics is a fairly new occurrence for Alabamians, and it seems to have been in correlation to the party change in the state. Donald Trump carried Alabama by o...
The Jay council approved a food vending truck in Jay starting the second week in January where the old livestock market is at its Monday, Dec. 16 meeting. The owner of a Mexican restaurant had requested to place his food truck to sell Mexican food, with hours of operation from Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., at the newly renovated livestock market, for lunch mainly, with possibly some breakfast. Jay Operations Manager Eric Seib said the town is working on the regulation, licensing,...
A Cantonment man lost his life when he was hit walking on US 90 at night in the rain on December 22. Casey Scott Hess, 35, was walking within the outside Westbound lane of US Highway 90 around 8:30 p.m. in the rain on Sunday, Dec. 22, when a 2008 Toyota 4Runner traveling past collided with Hess in the roadway, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report. The driver of the Toyota, 54-year-old Steven Enzer, and none of the three passengers in the car were injured. Hess was pronounced dead at the...
Scott Lunsford, Escambia County Tax Collector, has partnered with the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to bring the Florida Licensing On Wheels (FLOW) mobile office to Century on Tuesday, January 7, 2020 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Billy G. Ward Century Courthouse, 7500 N. Century Boulevard. FLOW is a standalone mobile office with technology to provide most motorists’ needs. The mobile unit provides a convenient method to renew a driver license, obtain a replacement driver license, conversion/reciprocation of o...
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...
Members of the Flomaton Fire Department, Flomaton Police Department, EMS, Mayor Dewey Bondurant and Santa Claus made the rounds through Flomaton last week to spread the Christmas cheer with gifts, toys and food to many in the Flomaton community....
A Jay man who was a pas- senger in a vehicle pulled over for an expired tag Sunday now faces a felony drug charge. Anthony Harold Hopkins, 39, 7987 Highway 4, was a pas- senger in a white Toyota Camry with a tag that had expired in June 2019 pulled over by law enforcement at the intersection of Highway 87 and Country Mill Road in Milton, according to a Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office report. The deputy made contact with the driver, Ronald Morris, who told the officer the vehicle had not been...
Most people are familiar with the tales of cowboys in the Old West leading herds of cattle from Texas to places such as Kansas. Movies such as Lonesome Dove have characterized cattle drives from Texas to Montana and movies such as Monte Walsh (with Tom Selleck) have characterized the ruggedness and individuality that made the American cowboy a unique breed on the stage of world history. Yet few are aware that before the Old West cowboy entered the stage there was another type of cowboy in Florida. Florida’s first cowboys were known as C...
I've always called them gravel lakes. I thought of them as places to swim, boat and fish. The first gravel lakes I experienced were at Mystic Springs (near McDavid), and I've also spent a lot of time at the gravel lakes of Bluff Springs. There are also lakes along Old Flomaton Road in Century and probably other places in the area, but I have little experience with those. As a child and teenager I often walked with friends, brothers and cousins to the Mystic Springs gravel lakes to swim, play in...
Dear Friends, This being the first article for 2020, I want to tell you all some things I have planned for the New Year. First, I must tell you this is ending a complete two years of writing for The Tri-City Ledger under BYGONE TIMES. I never in a million years would have guessed I would write my memories for anyone but my children and grandchildren. That was my hobby for many years. I privately wrote stories with the intention of leaving my old yellow legal pads filled with information so my offspring would know what life I had lived and why...
The fuzzy Christmas cat sweater isn’t your style? It’s okay if the Christmas presents you received are not on par. Returning a Christmas gift can be a source of anxiety for Christmas gift-givers and recipients. However, there is no need to worry. Most retailers accept returns as a matter of normal business. Consumer Responsibility “Take a gift back as quickly as possible, even though many stores don’t have a time limit,” said Sharlean Briggs, an Alabama Extension family resource management and workforce development regional agent. “If possi...
Amy Lee Douglas McGowin Beasley, 95, of Brewton, died Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. Mrs. Beasley was a native of Dixie, Ala. and a lifelong resident of Escambia County, Ala. A 1943 graduate of Damascus High School, she was owner and operator of Mac's Grocery Store for 23 years. She was a member of the Douglas Chapel Methodist Church and attended the East Brewton Nazarene Church and played the piano for eight years at the Cedar Hill Methodist Church. The funeral was held at 2:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 27. at the East Brewton Nazarene Church with Rev....
Duane Gunnels Biggs, 82, of Canoe, Ala., died Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019. Mrs. Biggs was born Aug. 22, 1937, to Vinnie and Irola Gunnels in Calhoun County, Ala. A retired school bus driver with the Escambia County (Ala.) school system, she was a member of Healing Waters Church in Bay Minette, Ala. The funeral will be held at 12 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 2, at the Johnson Quimby Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. John Loper and Bro. Richard Daniels officiating. Burial will follow at Alabama State Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Spanish Fort, Ala. with Johnson...
Charles Thomas Brown, Sr., 79, died Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019, in Atmore. Mr. Brown was a native of Lottie, Ala. who had resided in Atmore for the past 20 years. Retired from Standard Furniture with more than 53 years of service, he was an avid outdoorsman. A memorial service was held at 2 p.m., Monday, Dec. 30, at Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral Home with Bro. Jim Hill officiating and Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral Home directing. Mr. Brown is survived by one son, Charles T. (Regina) Brown, Jr., of Bay Minette; three daughters, Tonya Brown of...
