A 102-year-old woman and her 83-year-old daughter were served with eviction papers at their home near Coffeeville Monday as a long property dispute apparently nears an end. Edna Woodard lives with her daughter, Rosie V. Thornton in a doublewide mobile home on the West Bend Road. More...
Despite a voice vote that masked individual Alabama legislators' votes on a controversial 61 percent pay raise last week, local legislators contacted by this newspaper readily admitted that they voted to raise their pay by $18,790-from $30,710 to $49,500. More...
Clarke County Commissioners this week questioned the oversight, powers and obligations of rural water authorities and rural fire departments and agreed that both need to be looked at more closely to make sure they are serving the public to the best of their abilities. More...
A wet floor and termites in the Clarke County Board of Education building on Cobb Street in Grove Hill is not a good combination and county commissioners took up some time Tuesday to discuss the problem. Commission Chairman Paul Bradford said Superintendent of Education Gerald Stephens told him of... More...
JHS '77 Class meets Jackson High School 1977 Class Reunion Committee will hold a meeting at the Jackson Steakhouse Saturday, March 17 at 4 p.m. Call Laura Donald at 251-769-8607. Toddtown's sixth annual beautillion and cotillion The Toddtown Community Development Center and event coordinat... More...
TCOC weekend gospel Thomasville Church Of Christ located at the corner of Third Street and Worl will have a weekend gospel meeting Friday, March 16 through Sunday, March 18. There will be different speakers each service. Friday and Saturday nights will be at 7:30 p.m. and services Sunday will be ... More...
Our local legislators made no bones- and certainly no apologies- for voting themselves a 62 percent pay raise in the opening week of the regular legislative session. We admire their honesty but we deplore their greed and their arrogance. A modest raise- even one of 20- 25 percent- could have been... More...
Rufus "Bott" Curtis, 76, of Morvin died March 10, 2007 at Birmingham Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was born May 2, 1930. He was a former resident of Mt. Vernon. He was born to the parentage of the late William Burl Curtis and Minnie Wicks Curtis. He was a member of the Walnut Grove Baptist... More...
The Clarke Prep School Gators baseball team improved to 11-0 on the season as they beat archrival Patrician Academy 10-8, coming from behind in the late innings Monday afternoon. The win allowed CPS to sweep a double-header that also featured the Jackson Academy Eagles. More...
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