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A Montgomery woman has been arrested on intentional murder charges in the death of her 26-year old mentally handicapped sister, whose badly decomposed body was discovered in Atmore March 26, with accusations that the victim lived without food, water and electricity while her sister cashed her Social Security disability checks designed to take care of her sister, Vandoren Dailey. Josephine Dailey Gaines, 34, who also had an address listed as 1350 Armstrong Road, Monroeville, was arrested Aug. 9...
The Big 10 and the PAC 12 have pulled the plug and cancelled the 2020 football season, the SEC and the ACC are still on go and Flomaton High School head football coach Doug Vickery said he's very optimistic that high school football will be played this fall. "Football means a lot in the south," Vickery said. "I think the south will play football." Scheduling may take detours along the way, but Vickery said he's confident they will be playing. Flomaton was scheduled to open the season Aug. 21...
Raymond Wiggins has returned as the full time chairman of the Escambia County (Ala.) Commission following the resignation of Chairman Karean Reynolds and an announcement Monday by Commission Vice Chairman Brandon Smith that he was not in a position to take the full time position. Wiggins is currently in his 12th year on the commission and will begin his fourth term following the November General Election, where he is running unopposed. He also served as chairman from 2016 to 2020. Each year, the...
Flomaton High School graduate James Bagwell never imagined that a ring lost on a trip to the creek with friends in the summer of 1987 would be returned 33 years later through the kindness of a stranger in California. Bagwell had gotten his class ring in the summer of 1987, just before his senior year in high school. His parents had just bought the ring for him. He was wearing it he and some friends went to the creek on a Saturday night to have some fun. As the night grew late, the five friends...
Kay Wagner said she entered the race for the District 4 council seat in Flomaton because she wants to bring positivity to the table to help continue moving the town forward. Wagner, 80, previously served three terms on the Flomaton Town Council and four years as the town's mayor. Flomaton's municipal elections will be held Aug. 25 at Flomaton Town Hall. “I believe positivity breeds solutions and negativity breeds problems,” she said. “No is a negative, yes is a positive and it breeds succe...
Voters in Century and Jay will turn out this Tuesday, Aug. 18, for the Primary Election, but the ballots will look very different, as Century voters will vote for mayor and one council seat, while Jay voters will decide if they want to allow alcohol to be sold in the town limits on Sundays. Jay The Santa Rosa County ordinance reads: 'The hours for the sale or purchase of alcoholic beverages which are legal to be sold in Santa Rosa County shall be 7 a.m. to 2:30 a.m., each day of the week. It...
The Flomaton Town Council approved four resolutions Monday afternoon to declare council members Charlie Reardon, Lillian Dean, Jim Johnson and Roger Adkinson as re-elected to new four-year terms after none of the incumbents received opposition for the Aug. 25 municipal elections. Flomaton voters will go to the polls on Aug. 25 to elect a mayor and a council member from District 4. Incumbent Mayor Dewey Bondurant, Jr., is being challenged by Chris Burnham and Kevin Knowles. Incumbent District 4 C...
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On Tuesday, Aug. 11, Escambia County Sheriff's Investigators along with Special Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigations served arrest warrants on Lakerdra Shanta Snowden, who was a corrections officer at the Escambia County Detention Center. Today's arrest stems from a joint operation between ECSO and the FBI into the smuggling of contraband into the detention facility. Snowden is charged with one count of Use of Official Position for Personal Gain (Ethics Violation), and Promoting...
The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) was informed via self-reporting that one staff member at Holman Correctional Facility out of ten staff members around the state have tested positive for COVID-19 as of 12 p.m. on Friday, August 7. These individuals promptly self-quarantined under the direction of their healthcare provider. The ADOC’s Office of Health Services (OHS) has initiated investigations to determine which, if any, ADOC inmates or employees may have had direct, prolonged exposure to these staff members. Upon completing the a...
Flomaton Councilwoman Lillian Dean asked her fellow council members to either write a letter or pass a resolution to show that salaried employees with the town were not entitled to overtime pay. The issue stems from when former Police Chief Bryan Davis retired and then demanded overtime pay from the town. Councilman Buster Crapps said he agreed and asked how the town got into that situation before. Mayor Dewey Bondurant, Jr., said the handbook covers salaried employees and said had the town...
On Monday, Aug. 3, the Century Town Council approved Interim City Manager Vernon Prather's request to transfer $3,444.34 of Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) funds to pay invoices for services to improve infrastructure. The funds will pay an invoice submitted by Hydra Service, Inc. for a replacement sludge pump at the water treatment plant. Councilman Gomez expressed concern about well No. 3, which is complete out-of-service currently. “With well 3 being shot, what is the status of well 2?” ask...
The judge of probate, tax assessor, tax collector and sheriff of Escambia County (Ala.) will likely see a raise next year after the county commission passed a resolution Monday asking the county's legislative delegation to pass a bill to give the raises to the elected officials. Vice Chairman Brandon Smith said the move is to try and get the compensation for those elected officials in line with other counties similar to Escambia. County Clerk-Administrator Tony Sanks said the commission did not...
Megan Fournier of Atmore and Takeysia McFugerson and Khalil Monroe, both of Brewton, were recognized by Troy University as students who completed the requirements for graduation during the summer semester and term 5 of the 2019-2020 academic year. The summer semester includes graduates from the Troy, Ala., campus. Term 5 graduates include students at Troy's campuses in Dothan, Phenix City and Montgomery, Ala., along with teaching sites outside of Alabama and online....
I understand that people are innocent until proven guilty but if Josephine Dailey Gaines is convicted of basically leaving her mentally retarded sister to starve to death in Atmore while she cashed and spent her sister's Social Security disability checks, prison is too light a sentence – she should have a special place in Hell. Back in March when Atmore police officers found the badly decomposed body of Vandoren Dailey inside a home at 71 Jones St., I remember talking with Atmore Police Chief C...
The test of whether or not we will get back to some sort of normalcy began last week when the Escambia County (Ala.) School System opened its doors for students. A lot of churches and other organizations have decided to see things go in schools for a few weeks before they decide to open their doors during the COVID-19 pandemic. A little normalcy did take place with football players back on the field and bands rehearsing their halftime shows. But what is our definition of normal? We personally do...
On August 18, the U.S. will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to our Constitution which guaranteed women’s right to vote. The women’s suffrage movement in our country began in the 1840s as women abolitionists saw the parallels between the effort to free enslaved Americans and their own desire to vote. A convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 which produced an organized group led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, among others. The two movements worked together until wom...
It has been a month since our mid-July GOP runoffs for the U.S. Senate and two open Congressional seats. Since then, numerous publications as well as many of you have asked me to analyze and assess the outcomes. In the Senate runoff between Tommy Tuberville and Jeff Sessions the outcome can be explained in one word, “Trump.” It is that simple. Coach Tuberville read the playbook, perfectly and stayed on script. Alabama is Trump Country. President Trump may very well replicate or exceed his 63% 2016 landslide vote in the Heart of Dixie come fal...
The country has been roiled by riots for over two months, but Portland in particular has had devastatingly violent riots every night for over 70 nights! Portland and major cities across the land have suffered untold millions of dollars in damage and lost business; the price tag in Minneapolis may be over half a Billion dollars. Incredibly riots continue around the nation, but Portland has been the focal point. ANTIFA and assorted anarchists in Portland have persisted in attacking not just police but any citizens that won’t comply with their d...
Safer-at-home orders, social distancing and quarantines have added a new level of difficulty to beating the summer heat and serving safe and yummy food at a family gathering. While cooking and socializing outdoors can minimize the risk of contracting COVID-19, there are still other summer food safety measures people should follow. Terence Martin, the Urban Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (UEFNEP) coordinator with Alabama Extension at Alabama A&M University, offers some food safety tips for outdoor festivities this summer. Food...
Thomas Douglas Adams, 81, of Century, died Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020. Mr. Adams was born in Bluff Springs, Fla. and had been a lifelong resident of the Century community. A U.S. Air Force veteran, he worked for 40 years in the paper manufacturing industry in Cantonment, Fla. and attended Poplar Dell Baptist Church. The funeral was held at 10 a.m., Friday, Aug. 7, at Poplar Dell Baptist Church with Rev. Mitch Herring officiating. Burial followed at the church cemetery with full military honors and Flomaton Funeral Home directing. Mr. Adams is...
Jon Christina Austin, 52, of Flomaton, died Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. Mrs. Austin was born in Century, Fla., and had been a lifelong member of the Century and Flomaton areas as a homemaker. Mrs. Austin is survived by one daughter, Daisy Watson of Flomaton; one sister, Jennifer Brunson (J.J. Hunter) of Flomaton; three grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Mrs. Austin was preceded in death by her parents; and other family members....
Patsy Lucas Booker, 74, of Baker, Fla., died Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020 in a Pensacola hospital following a brief illness. Mrs. Booker was born Aug. 14, 1945, to Lonnie and Eula Franklin Lucas in Brewton, Ala. And was a longtime resident of Baker. A member of Rock Creek Apostolic Church and graduate of Baker High School, she was a former employee of Judy Bond who retired as a clerk from the judge of probate office with 27 years of service. The funeral was held at 2 p.m., Monday, Aug. 10, at Rock Creek Apostolic Church with Bro. John Wayne Pierce...
Franklin D. “Red” Cotton, 83, of Atmore, died Monday, Aug. 3, 2020. Mr. Cotton was born July 12, 1937, to J.D. and Ada E. Brown Cotton. Owner and operator of The T & W Flea Market, Red's Swap Shop, Brother's Furniture and Summerdale Flea Market, he moved to Atmore and opened the Atmore Flea Market, Cotton's Furniture Store and Cotton's Mini Storage. He was a member of The First Pentecostal Church of McCullough. The funeral was held at 11 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 8, at Johnson-Quimby Funeral Home with Bro. Andy Lolly, Bro. D.L. Harvell and Bro. Alt...
Kathy Ann Fuqua Crum, 68, of Brewton, died Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, in a Mobile hospital following a brief illness. Mrs. Crum was born Jan. 20, 1952, to Houston Dempsey and Donna Day Fuqua, in El Dorado, Kansas. She became a longtime resident of Brewton, where she was a graduate of W.S. Neal High School. Of the Baptist faith, she was a former employee of Vanity Fair and a homemaker. The funeral was held at 11 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 8, at Williams Memorial Chapel Funeral Home with Bro. William Joyner officiating. Burial followed at Fuqua-Haveard...
