Loxley residents who would like to take the place of Derek Middleton on the Town Council have just a few weeks to get letters of interest to Mayor Billy Middleton or Town Clerk Carol Middleton.
“We will decide (on a replacement for Middleton) at the next council meeting,” said the mayor. “We will then vote on the replacement.”
Derek Middleton’s position became open when he resigned last month. According to a statement that Derek Middleton read to the council when he announced his resignation, his leaving the council was due to “unforeseen circumstances.” Comments made on the council dais at the time Middleton announced his resignation indicated that he had his home “under contract.” He declined to comment further. Middleton held “place 5” on the council.
Baldwin County commissioners have put money where their hopes are for a new highway connecting Interstates 10 and 65 just east of Loxley and Bay Minette.
Commissioners voted 4-0 Tuesday to contract with Volkert & Associates for an environmental impact assessment of a proposed extension of Baldwin County 83 from a planned I-10 interchange in Rosinton nearly 21 miles north to I-65. The contract authorizes spending up to $450,000.
Last summer, the state Department of Transportation began surveying a proposed corridor for such a connector several miles to the east, near the Florida-Alabama line
Last May, a pair of men were headed from Florida to their native Querétaro, Mexico, when they were stopped along Interstate 10 in Alabama by a Loxley patrol car. The officer wrote in his report of the afternoon encounter that he was driving behind a swerving 2000 Chevrolet S-10 pickup.
In the ensuing stop, Officer Chris Crisler learned that the man behind the wheel, Ambrosio Saul Ramirez-Ibarra, had no drivers license and that he and his passenger, Victor Marquez, were traveling with more than $20,000 cash.
Air fresheners in the cab emitted “a strong masking odor,” the officer noticed. The truck’s registration traced to an address that had been affiliated with a drug case
Residents of the Town of Loxley had better check the size of their garbage cans. As of Monday’s council meeting, they are now limited to the 50 gallon size.
Former Loxley police chief Clifford Bradley Yetter, Jr., has been sentenced to two years of probation for multiple crimes related to his misuse and inappropriate access of confidential computer criminal records, the office of Alabama Attorney General Troy King said in a news release Wednesday.
Yetter, 64, was arrested in April 2008.
He was also fined $2,000 plus court costs and fees after he pleaded guilty to two counts of unauthorized use of a computer to obtain criminal records of individuals through the Law Enforcement Tactical System (LETS) under false pretenses.
Four people were injured when a Jeep collided with an ALDOT vehicle on I-65 near Atmore this morning.
The accident happened just before 9 a.m. on I-65 just north of the Highway 21 exit in Atmore when the driver of a Jeep Liberty rear-ended a utility trailer attached to an Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) vehicle used for litter removal.
Two workers in or near the trailer at the time of the crash were transported to Baptist Hospital in Pensacola by LifeFlight. Markus Prim of Bay Minette and Sherman McMillan of Loxley were treated and were released Tuesday afternoon.
Loxley’s unofficial ambassador, long a fixture on local streets on a flag-adorned bicycle or walking in his orange vest, will be buried today following a funeral at the town’s Civic Center.
Franklin Roosevelt Brackin was known as Frank to everyone in Loxley, said Kathy Fleet, director of the Association for Retarded Citizens of Baldwin County. He died Sunday at 76.
“Frank was like an unofficial ambassador for Loxley,” Fleet said. “He had been here for over 30 years.”
CW Bruton stands stoically near his old fashioned corn mill. He’s eager to show it to anyone who wants to learn.
“It’s great, this is a good show for us,” says the miller. “I wished all our shows were as good as what this one is.” He’s one of dozens of vendors who’s making a pretty good profit despite the economy. He says the Strawberry Festival is one of his favorite stops.
Police testified Thursday that a Loxley man accused of murder is addicted to methadone, has financial problems and probably killed an acquaintance from Pensacola for money.
Police investigators said David Game Coombs, 32, of Loxley knew William Oliver “Bill” Grunden, 57, through playing cards. Grunden’s body was found near his vehicle on Truck Trail 17 near Loxley on Jan. 29.
Police alleged that Coombs shot Grunden with a .22-caliber rifle and used about $6,000 taken from the slain gold-buyer to pay off debts and purchase drugs
More than 300 Loxley natural gas users are now customers of Riviera Utilities following this week’s purchase of the town’s natural gas distribution system.
The sale affects 266 residential customers and 57 commercial users, said David Horton, Riviera spokesman
First it was days of heavy rain and flooding…now, farmers in Baldwin County are bracing for possible freezing temperatures this week. Will Mother Nature give them a break?
“When you get that much rain the strawberries soak up the water and they get mushy,” says Dennis Young, who manages Burris Farm Market in Loxley, a leading, local strawberry provider. “We had 13, 14 inches of rain and it was just too much. We had to throw out as many strawberries as we kept.”
The 22nd Annual Baldwin County Strawberry Festival will be held on both Saturday and Sunday. The festival is one of the largest in Baldwin County and has received regional attention as a top attraction and festival event.
With a new management team in place, Deep South Speedway is back open, after a brief closure, and is offering racing in eight classifications starting Saturday.
“Basically, what we want to do is put all of the rumors and all of the fears to rest in the racing community and bring racing back to a local level,” said Chuck Day of Performance Racing Group, the new leaseholder at Deep South. “We want to try to create the same old Saturday night racing atmosphere that they started with a couple of years ago.”
The four-tenths-mile track, which features a dirt surface with 23-degree banked turns, an 18-degree back stretch and 12-degree front stretch, was started in 1997 and opened in July 2004 by the Darby family
Here’s the transcription of the March 19, 2009 dash cam video involving a Loxley, Alabama police officer and Robert O’Ryan, a man who five days later was arrested for allegedly stalking Shawn Johnson, an Olympic gymnast and Dancing With The Stars Contestant. According to Los Angeles police, O’Ryan was spotted by a security guard trying to sneak into a “DWTS” rehearsal at CBS Studios.
Loxley, Alabama may be a small town, but it sees more than its fair share of characters traveling Interstate 10.
“You’d be surprised at how many guys they encounter that are just crazy,” said Loxely Police Chief Chip Cason.
It’s no surprise then, that a police officer making an early morning traffic stop didn’t think much of a guy claiming to be driving 2,400 miles to marry an Olympic gymnast.
