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Year in Review Jackson, Thomasville and Coffeeville all sponsored firework shows for the Fourth of July. Merchants Bank opened a new bank office in Mobile, on Hillcrest Road in West Mobile. Bank officials say the location is temporary and that a site is being sought for a permanent bank building that will be constructed in the area. This is the bank's fifth location and its first outside of Clarke County. The new $3.56 million courthouse annex was opened for use. County commissioners held a ribbon cutting. The annex includes two new courtrooms, chambers for circuit judges and staffs, a new commission meeting room and other office space. David Walker was named headmaster for Clarke Preparatory School. Walker has been in education over 30 years and has worked at Escambia Academy, Greenville Academy and Morgan Academy. His wife, Martha, also joined the CPS staff as a fourth grade teacher. New Era Cap Co. officially celebrated the expansion of its Jackson operations. A new 50,000 square foot addition built at a cost of just over $2 million added about 40 jobs to the plant's employment A number of Clarke County residents attended the El Camino East-West Corridor Commission's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. El Camino seeks to four lane and improve U.S. Highway 84 across five states, from Georgia to Texas. Clarke County delegates met with U.S. Congressmen Jo Bonner and Artur Davis and Senators Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions. Highway 84 is fourlaned in east Alabama and some preliminary study funding has been allocated for the route from Evergreen to Monroeville. However, nothing has been done to develop the route from Monroeville to the Mississippi state line. Many other states, including Mississippi and Georgia, have four-laned most of their sections of 84. A tragic accident at Liberty Manufacturing, a Grove Hill plant, claimed the life of William Roger Raybon. Raybon was marking lines on the plant floor for a forklift to following too close when the forklift operator did not see him and ran over him.
The judge's chambers in the new courthouse addition are supposed to be secure but they had not been occupied but a short time when Circuit Judge Stuart DuBose's secretary filed a report that the office had been broken into because of scratches and other marks on an entry door. Those who had worked with the project say the door was on a checklist of repairs to be made and that there was no break-in.
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