Articles from the October 15, 2020 edition


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  • Can Wagner keep court job?

    Joe Thomas, Ledger Editor|Oct 15, 2020

    When Kay Wagner takes her oath of office as Flomaton's District 4 councilwoman, will she have to give up her part-time job as an assistant for the town's municipal court? That's the question the Flomaton Town Council is asking the Alabama attorney general's office. During Monday afternoon's town council meeting, the council approved a resolution asking for the attorney general's opinion. The specific question to the attorney general states: "The town of Flomaton employs a part-time employee in t...

  • Brewton resident arrested

    Joe Thomas, Ledger Editor|Oct 15, 2020

    A Brewton man was jailed on $100,000 bond for allegedly trying to run a woman off the road on Interstate 65 and firing shots into her vehicle. Robert Boggan, 44, 306 Stallworth St., was charged with shooting into an occupied vehicle and reckless endangerment. According to information released by Escambia County (Ala.) Sheriff Heath Jackson, on Oct. 11 deputies were notified of a possible road rage incident that took place on the interstate inside Escambia County. The victim told deputies she...

  • Brown crowned FHS Homecoming queen

    Joe Thomas, Ledger Editor|Oct 15, 2020

    Helene Brown reigned as the 2020 homecoming queen during kpre-game festivities Thursday night at Flomaton High School. From left are 2019 Queen Savannah Blackburn, Helene Brown, her father Nathan Brown and Flomaton High School Principal Scott Hammond. For more on Flomaton homecoming and other sports, see Pages 6-7A....

  • Cash spent his life helping others out

    Joe Thomas, Ledger Editor|Oct 15, 2020

    Barney Cash loved to help people and he helped a lot of them over the years. That's the sentiments people who knew him remember the most. Cash, 88, died Tuesday, Oct. 6, at his home in Century. Cash spent most of his life running Century Motors on North Century Boulevard and spent a lot of that time providing vehicles to people who would likely not be able to purchase one anywhere else. In 1972, Cash said he was coaxed into opening the lot by two of his friends from Brewton, Romine Harwell and...

  • Council gives gate OK for MLK park

    Joe Thomas, Ledger Editor|Oct 15, 2020

    In wake of continued vandalism and destruction, the Flomaton Town Council voted to move forward with a gate at the main entrance of Oaks Common Park and will set hours for all the parks in Flomaton to be open. Councilwoman Lillian Dean sent Mayor Dewey Bondurant, Jr., a letter outlining some projects she wanted to see done on Martin Luther King Drive and putting a gate at Oaks Common Park was one of the things on the list. In the past, vandals had ripped the sink off the wall in one of the...

  • T.R. Miller celebrates homecoming

    Oct 15, 2020

    Treniti Blount, pictured above, rolled through the streets of Brewton Thursday as T.R. Miller's 2020 homecoming queen. Below, the class of 2000 was on hand to celebrate the homecoming festivities. Miller's football team capped the night with a 37-20 win over Hillcrest....

  • BREAKING NEWS: FLOMATON HIGH SCHOOL COVID CANCELS TONIGHT'S HILLCREST, NEXT WEEK'S T.R. MILLER GAMES

    Joe Thomas, Ledger Editor|Oct 15, 2020

    Due to positive COVID-19 tests within the Flomaton High School football program and the quarantine of an undisclosed number of players, tonight's football game at Hillcrest High School and next Friday night's game in Flomaton against T.R. Miller have been cancelled. Flomaton will forfeit those two region games. No decision has been made on Flomaton's Oct. 30 home game against Escambia County High School. See next Thursday's edition of the Tri-City Ledger for updates and more details....