According to a report received by the Baldwin County Health Department, heavy rainfall on Saturday caused a manhole on Holly Street to overflow and resulted in an undetermined amount of sewage being discharged to a ditch that empties into Blackwater River
The rain also caused the retention pond at the sewage treatment plant to overflow on Sunday and continued into Tuesday.
The overflow resulted in an undetermined amount of sewage being discharged to a ditch that empties into Corn Branch.
On Saturday, April 11, attendees at the Strawberry Festival will be treated to the sight of classic and not-so-classic but nicely tricked out cars at the festival’s car show. The festival will be be April 11 and 12 this year There will be a “cruise-in” event on Sunday, according to the Festival’s Web site.
The show will be held on the Festival grounds, in Loxley’s Municipal Park, along Highway 59, just a few putt-putts from I-10. Forms to pre-register a vehicle can be found at the Strawberry Festival Web site, baldwincountystrawberryfestival.org.
Heavy rains caused some big problems in Baldwin County. In Loxley, ditches filled up quickly with storm water and area creeks became raging whitewater rapids! Many roads were underwater. Several homes in the area nearly flooded leaving rising water just feet from neighbors’ doorsteps.
And just west of Loxley, a section of Highway 90 was shut down for several hours this morning. A drain pipe broke sending water across the highway and washing out part of the asphault.
The situation was not that much different in Daphne. The Lake Forest community got their fair share of the rain too. Several area creeks spilled their banks and caused some problems there as well. At least four homes were flooded.
According to a report received today by the Baldwin County Health
Department from Riviera Utilities, a sewage spill occurred in the Foley area on East Berry Ave.
Also, a manhole and lift stations overflowed on March 28th and March 29th in Fairhope, Alabama
And, heavy rainfall has caused a manhole and the retention pond at the sewage treatment plant
to overflow in Loxley, Alabama
A dispute over lease payments has idled racing at Deep South Speedway in Loxley, but the track’s owners, Benny and Madeline Darby and their son, Michael, are set to see racing start up again on the 156-acre property.
We have Chuck Day from the Atmore-Brewton area ready to go, and we hope to be racing by next weekend,” said Michael Darby in a telephone interview. He later indicated that April 4 should see racing resume at the track.
Deep South was previously leased by Bill and Karen Webb of Pensacola. Michael Darby claims that the Webbs failed to pay the lease on the track
The driver in a September wreck that killed a 19-year-old soldier from Baldwin County and two other passengers was highly intoxicated at the time of the one-vehicle crash, according to military and police reports.
Pfc. Desmond Morrisette of Loxley died in the Sept. 14 wreck at Fort Bragg, N.C., that also killed Pfc. Shelly Monique Brown, 20, of New Orleans and Spc. Alexander Llewelyn Thomas, 20, of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The driver of the GMC Yukon had a blood-alcohol level of .18 percent, according to investigative reports obtained last week by the Baldwin Register through a Freedom of Information Act request originally filed in September
While most of us laugh and crack a few jokes, there’s nothing funny about discovering a “peeping Tom” outside your window
That was the situation Valentine’s Day when a Loxley woman discovered a “peeping Tom.”
Police are still monitoring the area, says Lt. Raymond Lovell, a spokesperson for the Loxley Police Department, but he says police think the incident was a “boyfriend-girlfriend situation.”
A judge last week refused to reinstate bail for a man charged with manslaughter and assault in connection to a 2006 wreck that resulted in the death of one person and serious injury to another.
Joseph Edward Davison, 19, of Loxley, faces those two charges for an April 23, 2006, wreck in which Michael Sean Henshon, 22, died and Dennis Webber, of Pensacola, incurred “serious bodily injury,” according to court documents. In January, Derek Rose, Davison’s attorney, filed a request asking Presiding Circuit Court Judge James H. Reid to reconsider bail for his client. The filing states that he has discovered a witness whose testimony indicates that “the defendant could not have been the driver of the vehicle on the date the accident occurred.”
It’s a handsome building just of County Road 68 in Loxley. Several “portable” buildings have been converted into modern classrooms, connected with an attractive wooden walkway and covered deck, tricked out with benches and tables, perfect for children to play on in bad weather
The center is one of the newest Head Start centers in the area, and is run by the East Coast Migrant Head Start Project.
The center is especially designed to assist families who come to the area to help with Baldwin County’s three growing seasons of crops, and is slated to open in April.
Baldwin County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested a man for killing another man for cash. Investigators charged David Game Coombs with capital murder. They say he killed William Grunden back on January 29. Grunden’s body was found on Truck Trail 17 near Loxley.
It’s a dirt road off Highway 59.
Alabama State Troopers say a 28 car pile-up closed down Interstate 10 for 6 hours today.
It happened around 4:30 this morning between Loxley and the Wilcox Rd. exit.
Troopers say there were 14 injuries in the pile-up. Most were taken by ambulance to area hospitals, but one person was airlifted to baptist hospital in Pensacola. Troopers are still investigating the accident.
Eighteen slots are available in a program designed to help children achieve success in a classroom of their peers
Those slots belong to children who register for enrollment in Baldwin County’s voluntary pre-k program on Feb. 10 and Feb. 11.
“The day the children come to register, they are given a preliminary screening assessment, we rank the scores and select the children with the greatest academic need,” Cindy Chandler, county pre-k program coordinator, said. “The program provides these 18 students the opportunity to compete on the same level as their peers in kindergarten
Investors bought 19 units and 14 boat slips at Vista Bel la on Ole River in Orange Beach according to Bob Shal low of REMAX Paradise in Orange Beach and one of the buyers. The units’ mortgages were bought from Regions Fi nancial , and the purchase price was not disclosed. The units were appraised at $9 million, Shallow said. The units are priced at $500,000 and up, and at one time were selling for $1 million or more. Thirty-one of the 50 units have sold in the 14-story complex.
Curves, a women’s fitness center, has leased 1,625 square feet on Professional Park Drive in Robertsdale, according to Richard Mann of Prudential Cooper & Co. commercial division
Nail Décor has leased 1,100 square feet in Twin Oaks Shopping Center on Ala. 59 in Robertsdale and will open later this month
The Hendrix Co. , a building supply firm, has leased 7,500 square feet of warehouse space off Railroad Road in Loxley
