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The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency continues its search for the driver of a vehicle responsible for a multiple-vehicle crash Monday night near Flomaton that claimed the life of an 85-year old Molino man. According to reports released by ALEA, Marshall Fant was killed in a collision that occurred after the original wreck at the intersection of Highway 31 and Old Highway 31 near the racetrack. Fant was driving a 2014 Nissan Frontier when his vehicle collided with a 2013 Honda Accord. The report...
A Flomaton man arrested on multiple theft charges had to be escorted out of his bond hearing by sheriff's deputies after claiming he was not guilty and accusing deputies of assaulting him and "snatching' him around while inside the courtroom. Emanuel Rabun Bethea, 35, who said he lived on Palafox St., in Flomaton, was jailed on $250,000 bond on charges of burglary III, receiving stolen property II and two counts of theft of property IV. During a bond hearing last Thursday before District Judge...
The Escambia County (Ala.) School Board had a workshop this past Monday to begin the process of finding a new school superintendent now that Superintendent John Knott announced his upcoming retirement. Knott's last day is July 31, 2021, and according to Board Chairman Cindy Jackson, there is not a lot of time to do the leg work so the board has asked the Alabama Association of School Boards (AASB) for help with the process. “We held a three-hour workshop with AASB and our lawyers to discuss what...
The Century Town Council did not approve Mayor Benjamin Boutwell's recommendation of two hires for the town Monday night following discussion that the process was not carried out correctly. Mayor Boutwell recommended hiring Cynthia Daniels as citizens services clerk and Dennis Mathis for street department maintenance, the two he thought were the most qualified. When council members began questioning how these two applicants came to be recommended, Town Clerk Kim Godwin said five applicants who...
"It was beyond everything I expected," is how Kay Wagner explained Saturday's clean-up day at Flomaton Cemetery. In March, Wagner announced that she was working on a plan to bring back 'Decoration Day' and have volunteers come and help clean up the cemetery. She said 'Decoration Day' began in 1868 after the Civil War ended and was set aside for people to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. Over the years, the Saturday before Mother's Day was set aside as the clean-up day. "The...
