Pitts a finalist for state teacher of the year



Just a few months after being awarded Thomasville High School’s teacher of the year, Katherine Pitts now finds herself being interviewed by a television crew as one of the four finalists for the state’s teacher of the year. “I’m honored just to be included in this group,” she said. As a Center for Public Television crew set up for an […]

Community rallies for Parker



When Thomasville holds its annual Relay for Life Friday night in downtown Thomasville, there will be an abundance of stories. There will be stories of survivors and of those lost to the battle with cancer. There will be stories of family, friends and neighbors coming together to help fight this terrible disease when the diagnosis comes. Now, Gena Parker has […]

Steel mill job fair planned for May 4



Lakeside Steel Alabama will be actively recruiting to fill more than 100 good-paying, full time hourly jobs at its Thomasville tube and pipe mill, next Wednesday. The company will hold a job fair at the Thomasville Civic Center on Wednesday, May 4 from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. to recruit workers for more than 100 manufacturing jobs. “We’re looking for […]

Yellow Bluff man charged with murder



The Pine Hill Police Department arrested and charged Anthony Nicholson of Yellow Bluff with capital murder last Saturday. On April 22, the Pine Hill Police Dept responded to 92 Jowers Lane to a stabbing call. When officers arrived on scene they found a Tiffanie Jowers of Pine Hill, dead on the bedroom floor with a stab wound to the chest. […]

COMMUNITY CALENDAR



Southern Expose Alabama Southern Community College in Monroeville will have a Southern Expose Spring Concert and Art Department Spring Show Thursday, April 28 at 6:30 p.m. For more information contact Jeff Gilbreath, ASCC music instructor, at 251-575-8296 or Susan Brown, ASCC art instructor, at 251-575-8244. Art exhibit The Thomasville High School art exhibit will be Thursday, May 5 from 6:30-8 […]

Keel



Mildred Claire Cassity Keel, 89, a homemaker, of Mobile died Monday, April 25, 2011 at Providence Hospital. She was born October 5, 1921 in Thomasville. She was a member of Thomasville Baptist Church and a charter member of the Rolling Acres Garden Club in Mobile. Graveside funeral services were 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at Choctaw Corner Cemetery in […]

Ledbetter



Sam Fletcher Ledbetter, Jr., 83, of Linden died April 19, 2011 at DCH Regional Medical Center. He was born July 25, 1927 in Reeltown. He was a graduate of Auburn University and a retired administrator with the Farmers Home Administration U. S. Department of Agriculture. He was a member of the Linden United Methodist Church. Funeral services were held at […]

Marriage license applications



Milton Estes Sheffield and Stella W. Stifflemire; Joshua Randy Boyette and Crystal Lynn Newton; Willie S. Donald Jr. and Tracy Renee Preyer. Marriage license applications are just that—applications for licenses, not necessarily actual marriages.

Property deeds listed



Dated April 15-22 Jeanne R. Smith, to Richard H. Crow. William F. McCorquodale Family Limited Partnership, to William A. Bumpers. Melisssa Lee Durst Murchison, to Lee McCorquodale Durst. Lee McCorquodale Durst, to James R. Hudson. Merchants Bank, to John H. Marshall III. Raymond McDuff, to Fannie Mae a/k/a Federal. New St. Matthew Baptist Church, Inc., to Terry D. Boykin. Walker’s […]

County waste pickup changing



Customers of the Clarke County solid waste program may soon be getting large wheeled carts to put their garbage in for pickups. Bruce Wilson, the county attorney, told county commissioners Tuesday that Allied Waste has offered to maintain the existing contract’s prices for three years in exchange for implementing the cart system. Currently, county residents use their own containers to […]