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Baldwin County has three towns — Magnolia Springs, Loxley and Robertsdale — that will not hold municipal elections because candidate are running unopposed.

Towns: Politics without a vote

Three polling places — Elberta Civic Center, Foley Civic Center and Magnolia Springs Wesleyan Church — will be open for voting in the school board race today. Only District 5 voters who vote at those three polling sites will be allowed to vote.

For the two statewide races on the Republican runoff ballot — Beth Kellum vs. Lucie McLemore for the Place 1 seat on the State Court of Criminal Appeals and Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh and Matt Machney for the Public Service Commission — Baldwin County’s voting precincts and poll sites are as follows and will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. today. Some precinct numbers are not consecutive.

WHERE TO VOTE

The District 5 Baldwin County School Board race will be decided once and for all on July 15th.

Challenger Angie Swiger beat incumbent Margaret Long to win the June 3rd Republican Primary by 65 votes. But late that night, Probate Judge Adrian Johns said they discovered the District 5 race was not on the ballots given to voters in 3 split precincts; Elberta, Foley and Magnolia Spings.

Monday, Attorney General Troy King recommended Baldwin County hold a new primary on July 15th for those three precincts.

Baldwin County Ballot Blunder

Delta Elementary is one of five Baldwin County schools slated to add a pre-kindergarten class when school resumes Aug. 11.

Adding pre-kindergarten at five schools — Delta, Magnolia, Robertsdale, Elberta and Silverhill elementary — will increase Baldwin County’s total to 16 pre-K classes on 15 campuses, said Baldwin Schools’ Federal Programs Director Cindy Chandler. Foley Elementary has two pre-K classes.

Many low-income parents want their children to attend day care or preschool, Chandler said, but that’s often impossible when the average cost of day care is $460 per month.

Baldwin schools expand pre-K programs

What happened to the school budget cuts? There’s no money for buses to get kids to school. There’s no money for regular classroom teachers and there’s not enough space for anyone without portables.

But they’ve managed to take just enough of our money to pay for daycare for 4 year olds from low-income families in the public schools and private organizations. Thanks for the $20 increase in spending there, Governor Riley.

Anyone know what programs or classes are being cut in exchange for this low-income day care?

A revote in three precincts in south Baldwin County is the best way to determine the winner in the Baldwin County Board of Education District 5 race involving Angie Swiger and incumbent Margaret Long, the statewide Republican Steering Committee ruled Friday.

The state committee’s decision affirmed an earlier ruling by a Baldwin County Republican committee, said state Republican Communications Director Philip Bryan.

That means the party wants a revote of District 5 voters at polling places in Magnolia Springs, Foley and Elberta.

The second-chance election would be conducted July 15

Committee sides with local GOP

Baldwin County Board of Education candidate Margaret Long has asked the state Republican Party to call a complete revote of school board District 5.

Today, Long filed a formal appeal of a local party officials’ decision to hold a revote in three disputed precincts — Elberta, Magnolia Springs and Foley. Long said she believes the three-precinct vote is likely illegal.

Long appeals to state Republican officials

The second-chance election to determine south Baldwin County’s representative on the Baldwin County Board of Education may not be held July 15, despite last week’s decision by a local Republican Party committee.

Several legal questions must be answered before a revote can be scheduled, said Baldwin Probate Judge Adrian Johns, who added he may request “an expedited attorney general’s opinion” before placing the election on the July 15 runoff ballot.

For starters, Johns said Monday, he has received no formal request from state or local Republican Party officials about how they want his office to proceed. In addition, a revote may need approval from the U.S. Justice Department, Johns said, and he wants direction on how to conduct absentee balloting.

But Baldwin County Republican Party Chairman Don McGriff said decisions about primary elections are left to the discretion of the party. Based on that, he said, there’s no reason the school board race should not to be included on the July 15 ballot.

Baldwin schools revote on hold

A new election has been scheduled in a Baldwin County School Board race where the probate court judge admitted there were voting problems.
It’s scheduled in three precincts in the Republican primary race for school board seat from district five.

The three precincts are Magnolia Springs, Foley and Elberta. It’s set to take place on July 15, the same day as runoff elections are scheduled.

Margaret Long said, “I think this is a good decision. I would have liked for it to be a whole new election.”

When asked if she was a hundred percent happy with the decision, Angie Swiger said, “Well, not a hundred percent, but of course, I’m a very positive person and I’ll continue to be positive.”

New Election Scheduled In Baldwin County

Two Magnolia Springs teenagers — Joshua Wilson and Justin Smith, both 18 — remain in the Baldwin County Corrections Center, accused of committing a string of armed robberies involving Hispanic residents of south Baldwin County.

On Monday night and again Tuesday night, Baldwin County Sheriff’s Deputies received calls about gunpoint robberies of Hispanics in the Bon Secour area, said Sheriff’s Office spokesman Maj. Anthony Lowery. In both cases, Hispanic men were approached by two white men — identified as Wilson and Smith by Tuesday’s victim — and were robbed of jewelry and cash at gunpoint.

The men targeted Hispanics, believing many of them are illegal, undocumented workers who would not alert police out of fear of deportation, Lowery said.

Teens targeted Hispanic men

Baldwin County officials said today that 142 total Republican voters in the Foley Civic Center and Magnolia Springs Wesleyan Church polling places didn’t receive the ballot with a school board race on it during Tuesday’s primary.

That includes 55 voters at precinct No. 36 in Magnolia Springs and 87 voters at precinct No. 38 in Foley, Probate Judge Adrian Johns said this afternoon.

Baldwin County Republican Party leaders will meet in coming days to decide whether to redo voting for the entire District 5 race or just at those polling sites, the local GOP chairman said today.

Baldwin school board vote could be redone

Another stolen election in Baldwin County?

After a century of little regulation of community roadsides, town residents could soon have new rules saying what is and isn’t allowed along rights of way, municipal officials said.

The Magnolia Springs Town Council plans to vote May 27 on two ordinances regulating the use of rights of way along municipal roads. One is a general ordinance establishing regulations for the town-owned roadside property. The second bans most parking on rights of way, said Councilman Joe Sankey.

Town considers right-of-way laws

A 33-year-old man died in a one-vehicle accident today when his Chevrolet Cavalier left Baldwin County 49 near Magnolia Springs at about 5:30 a.m., according to State Troopers.

Troopers did not release the man’s name, pending notification of next of kin. The man had a Tennessee driver’s license, and it was unclear as of early this afternoon whether he lived there or in Alabama.

Magnolia Springs wreck kills 1

Developers of a south Baldwin County subdivision have agreed to donate 20 acres for a new school, ending more than a year of back-and-forth negotiations involving Georgia-based Samaritan Development and the county school board.

The 20-acre campus, expected to be an elementary school, will be part of SweetBay, a 200-acre community near Magnolia Springs that’s planned to eventually have more than 2,000 housing units.

Developer pledges property donation

A 2-year-old boy remains in the hospital today after a 100-pound, mixed-breed bulldog that belong to his family attacked the child.

Baldwin County Sheriff’s Major Anthony Lowery said a LifeFlight helicopter transported the boy to a Mobile hospital for treament of injuries to his face, neck and left hand suffered in the late Sunday afternoon attack.

The boy’s name was not made public, but he is reported in good condition at the University of South Alabama Children’s & Women’s Hospital, according to a hospital spokesman.

Family’s big bulldog attacks Baldwin toddler

The suspects are

• 42-year-old Terry Hall of Atmore, loitering
• 62-year-old Randy Laney of Orange Beach faces loitering and indecent exposure charges, loitering
• 43-year-old Darryl Neal of Grand Bay faces charges of loitering and public intoxication
• 35-year-old Adrian Tannler of Magnolia Springs, loitering
• 57-year-old Richard Terry of Chickasaw, loitering
• 79-year-old Sherard Pierre of Mobile, loitering
• 49-year-old Stanley Smith of Pensacola was arrested at the Perdido Bay Recreation Park in Lillian

All six suspects were caught last week near the Pitcher Plant Bog’s parking area.

Officials say the undercover male officers were approached by each of the individuals for sexual intercourse. While managers of the park say they’ve had this problem in the past, they hope the sting will deter others from sexual activity in a place it doesn’t belong.

Terry Hall

Randy Laney

Darryl Neal

Adrian Tannler

Richard Terry

Sherard Pierre

Stanley Smith