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The Escambia County (Ala.) Commission has taken the first step toward building a new detention center with the purchase of a 177-acre track of land behind the Brewton Industrial Park. The county paid $512,000 for the property that Sheriff Heath Jackson said is an ideal place to locate a new county jail. “This is the first step in hopes of building a new county jail,” Jackson said. “It's in a perfect place, out of public view and won't be directly downtown.” Jackson said one of many major i...
An Atmore man has been arrested on 10 counts of aggravated cruelty to animals after sheriff's deputies went to his 177 Randolph Ave., home and discovered "numerous cats and dogs that had been starved with the rib cage protruding under the skin". Billy Earl Ellis, 53, was arrested March 5 and booked into the Escambia County Detention Center in Brewton. During a bond hearing Monday, Sheriff Heath Jackson told District Judge Eric Coale that the dogs and cats had no food or fresh water and deputies...
Although Flomaton Mayor Dewey Bondurant, Jr., scratched “Discuss formation and/or possible set up of a planning commission” prior to Monday afternoon's council meeting the council adjourned later giving the mayor permission to start the ball rolling on getting a zoning ordinance for Flomaton. Councilman Roger Adkinson said they all knew businesses weren't going to come to Flomaton without zoning so “When are we going to do it”. Mayor Bondurant said he's been working the South Alabama Regiona...
The Flomaton Town Council was expected to approve a 1-cent sales tax increase late Wednesday afternoon after the same body approved an ordinance Monday afternoon to implement the tax increase. The increase will raise the sales tax in Flomaton to 11 percent with town receiving 5 percent, the state receiving 4 percent and the county receiving 2 percent. The first reading of the ordinance passed Monday on a 5-1 vote with Mayor Dewey Bondurant, Jr., and council members Charlie Reardon, Lillian...
The town of Century will apply for a special Community Development Block Grant-Corona Virus (CDBG-CV) for four proposed projects in the town following an approval from the town council following Tuesday night's public hearing. The CDBG-CV is $100 million in funding through the CDBG Small Cities Program available to non-entitlement communities to prevent, prepare for and respond to the coronavirus pandemic. The town of Century is eligible to apply for up to $5 million in the first of two rounds...
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