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Year in Review A wood pellet manufacturing plant that could employ up to 113 is being considered for Jackson. It would locate in the city's industrial park just off Highway 177 on the south side of town. The city council has approved $1 million in site preparations for New Gas Concepts if the plant materializes. The wood pellets are made from local timber as a fuel product for use by European mills and plants. Louisiana Pacific accepted its first loads of timber for the new oriented stand board (OSB) mill in Thomasville. Work is nearing completion on the $230 million facility and production is expected to start around the first of the year. The first loads of wood were delivered by Fulton Logging and Silver Creek Logging trucks. Hannah Lynne Etheridge of Thomasville was crowned Miss Alabama Agriculture during the Alabama Farmers Federation's annual meeting in Mobile. She is the 19-year-old daughter of Chip and Billie Jo Etheridge of Thomasville. Sharon Rutherford of Thomasville, the ex-Coffeeville High teacher convicted of enticing students, was sentenced to three years in prison by Judge Thomas Baxter and given five years probation. She is free on bond while the sentence is being appealed. The Grove Hill Public Library dedicated a new addition. The O'Melia Family Reading Room was made possible by a donation from the O'Melia family of Grove Hill and others. Court reporter Chrissy Dunn abruptly resigned her job with Circuit Judge Stuart DuBose and filed a complaint with the Judicial Inquiry Commission, the state agency that handles complaints against judges. The nature of the complaint was not revealed. The new Clarke County High School was finished and the process of moving into the new $6 million school began the day school dismissed for the Christmas holidays. Plans are for students to be in the new building when they return for classes on Jan. 8.
Plans are to tear down the 1930s high school building and to make the location a parking lot. Some townspeople and school alumni are pushing to save the building, saying it is in good condition and could be put to use by the school board.
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