Vickery stepping down as coach

Ending 19-year career as Flomaton coach

Flomaton head football coach Doug Vickery has announced he will be retiring at the end of the year and Flomaton Principal Mark Harbison said he hopes to have a new football coach named by mid-January.

At the conclusion of last Wednesday’s football banquet at Hidden Falls in Flomaton, Coach Vickery announced he was retiring. There were hugs and some tears between the coach and his players.

“This has been one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever had to make,” Vickery said.

Vickery, 55, has 31 years in the Alabama public school system with the past 19 years serving as the head football coach and at...