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Nitisha Woods, center, took her niece Jersey Spears, left, and her son Bryson Johnson to Flomaton's firework show last Wednesday, but Jersey seemed a little less impressed when the bombs burst in air at Hurricane Park. Crowds battled the heat throughout the weekend to celebrate the Fourth of July. See more on our Photo Gallery....
The Escambia County (Ala.) Commission has until Aug. 31 to adopt an annual plan with a detailed list of road and bridge projects the county anticipates completing through the Rebuild Alabama Act, which will be funded by the new gasoline tax approved by the Alabama Legislature. The Legislature passed a 10-cent per gallon increase over the next three years. The initial 6-cents a gallon tax increase will take effect on Sept. 1, 2019 and will increase 2 cents on Oct. 1, 2020 and another 2 cents on...
“A municipal corporation that is losing money is in the same position of a business that is losing money,” said Edwin “Buzz” Eddy, retired Gulf Breeze city manager to the Century Council at last Monday's special meeting. “It can't be around long and provide excellent service to itss citizens if you're losing money constantly. What I would work on first is the gas, water, sewer and sanitation.” “Services can be measured, charged for and the money brought in for those enterprise services shou...
More than 20 firefighters, police officers, sheriff's deputies and a game warden spent hours Saturday night and early Sunday morning searching for a woman reported missing on Big Escambia Creek near Flomaton and eventually found the woman unharmed sitting on a sandbar just north of Turtle Point Environmental Center. Flomaton police were first contacted about 9:45 p.m. Saturday that a woman was missing on the creek. Capt. Chance Thompson said a group had launched at Magnolia Branch earlier that...
As of noon Wednesday, Escambia County Emergency Management Director David Adams said this area should not see the brunt of what is expected to become Hurricane Barry in the next few days, but said residents need to keep an eye on this unpredictable storm. Monday morning, Adams addressed the Escambia County (Ala.) Commission about possible bad weather associated with a low pressure system in Georgia. Adams said the low-pressure system came from the midwest and began making a southern turn in...
Contractors have been busy since Monday morning as the Alabama Department of Transportation begins its repaving project along Highway 113 from Flomaton to Interstate 65. Slow progress is good progress, but expect delays heading down the highway....
