Promoters want to use Anderson Field for concert



Promoters want to use Anderson Field for concert By Marcus Gordon The Thomasville Times THOMASVILLE – Thomasville’s City Council authorized City Attorney Edmon McKinley to work with the Thomasville City Schools and a concert promoter who is seeking permission to use Anderson Field as a concert venue for a May 15 production. At Monday night’s council meeting, Police Chief Thomas […]

Love Hole raid results in two arrests



PINE HILL – Law enforcement personnel on the local, county, state and federal levels arrested two men last Thursday, March 18 in the Love Hole area near Pine Hill. According to a press release by Pine Hill Police Department Chief John Brown, the PHPD, along with agents from the Alabama Bureau of Investigation, Fourth Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force, the […]

TVFD Battles Fire At Shopping Center



Firefighters extinguish flames at shopping center



THOMASVILLE – Electrical problems apparently were to blame last Wednesday afternoon for emptying out stores in the Thomasville Mart Shopping Center. Thomasville fire and police units were called to the shopping center shortly after 5 p.m., when employees of the stores called in what they said was a small explosion followed by smoke appearing in the buildings. Most of the […]

Three companies bid on Fulton sidewalk project



FULTON – Three companies put in bids to do the first phase of Fulton’s sidewalk project. The first phase includes installing sidewalks throughout the downtown area and down Bassetts Creek to the Fulton Medical Clinic. There, a foot bridge based on a railroad trestle, will be constructed across the creek. The sidwalk will continue southward to Highway 177, where it […]

School system has $1.7 million in reserve



School system has $1.7 million in reserve THOMASVILLE – Despite predictions of financial collapse among state school systems at the beginning of the fiscal year, Thomasville City Schools ended February with a fund balance of more than $1.7 million. At the board’s meeting Thursday night, School Financial Officer Linda McGhee reported that the actual total was $1,770,000. "Of that amount, […]

City to okay roadblock fundraisers



By Marcus Gordon The Thomasville Times THOMASVILLE – Groups seeking to raise funds through roadblocks in the city will now have to get permission from the city council before they are allowed to undertake such projects. At Monday night’s city council meeting, Mayor Sheldon Day said the city already has an ordinance on the books governing roadblock fundraisers, which are […]

Edward Jones Holds Open House



Kathy Bolen, right, talks to her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Coleman of Walker Springs at the Open House for the new Edward Jones Investments office in downtown Thomasville. The office is located on West Front Street, right across from People’s Corner in the newly renovated building that once held Dozier Hardware and the old Bedsole’s Five-And-Ten Cent […]

Work on water plant could start by late summer,

Mayor Day tells water board

By Marcus Gordon The Thomasville Times THOMASVILLE – Work on the new regional water treatment plant could start by the end of the summer, Mayor Sheldon Day told the Water Works and Sewer Board Monday night. The plant, which would be owned and operated by the Southwest Alabama Regional Water Supply District, would provide all the treated water for members […]

Bradford Bags Big Bream, Bass



Seven-year old Jordan Bradford of Pine Hill caught this one-and-a-half pound bream and this two-to-three pound bass while fishing with his daddy, Mike Bradford and his "Papa Mann" in Gordonsville in Lowndes County.