Articles from the October 8, 2020 edition


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  • To our Subscribers: due to technical problems at the press, the October 8th edition of the Tri-City Ledger will be not be printed until about noon on Thursday, October 8. We apologize for the delay.

    Joe Thomas, Ledger Editor|Oct 8, 2020

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  • Area mourns student's death

    Gretchen McPherson, Staff Writer|Oct 8, 2020

    The communities of Atmore and Flomaton are mourning this week as news of a car crash Saturday killed a Flomaton Elementary School student and critically injured other family members. Jaden James, a sixth grader at Flomaton Elementary School, died when the rear of his family's vehicle was struck last Saturday morning after 9 a.m. James was a rear passenger and died from his injuries at the hospital. A pickup was traveling southbound on State Road 97 in Escambia County, Fla., south of Tungoil...

  • Keeping eye on Hurricane Delta

    Joe Thomas, Ledger Editor|Oct 8, 2020

    Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has declared a state of emergency, football games have either been cancelled, moved or will be played early as all eyes are focused on Hurricane Delta as it begins its track across the Gulf of Mexico with an anticipated landfall Friday night or early Saturday morning along the gulf coast. Where Delta makes landfall and how powerful the storm will be were still unknowns Wednesday. It was a Category 4 storm Tuesday night in the Caribbean. Escambia County (Ala.) Emergency...

  • Vandals hit MLK's Oak Common Park

    Joe Thomas, Ledger Editor|Oct 8, 2020

    Vandals ripped the locks off of the bathroom doors at Oaks Common Park sometime Saturday night or Sunday in a continued problem for the park located on Martin Luther King Drive in Flomaton. Flomaton Police Chief Chance Thompson said officers have responded to multiple reports of vandalism at the park. The bathroom doors had been locked after vandals ripped the sink off the wall in one of the bathrooms. Chief Thompson asks if anyone has any information about who damaged the doors or who is respon...

  • Painting it up for homecoming

    Oct 8, 2020

    Although COVID-19 and Hurricane Delta have thrown a monkey wrench into Flomaton High School's homecoming activities, seniors found another project for homecoming by painting the senior parking spaces in front of the high school. Pre-game festivities will begin at 6:30 p.m. tonight (Thursday) followed by Flomaton vs. Excel at 7 p.m....

  • Queen to be crowned tonight (Thursday)

    Oct 8, 2020

    Due to Hurricane Delta, Flomaton High School will crown its 2020 homecoming queen Thursday night as the Hurricanes take on Excel. Pregame festivities begin at 6:30 p.m. The 2020 homecoming court are from left, Nevaeh Cox, junior, Sydney Lisenby, senior, Helene Brown, senior, Chaselyn Phillips, senior, Aniyah Kyles, sophomore, and Lilly Chavers, freshman....