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One of two people remained in the Bald win County Corrections Center on Friday after being arrested on hunting and drug-related charges last week, according to jail records.

Alan Blake Clark Jr., 28, of Atmore, and Charissa Leigh Clarke, 21, of Central, Fla., were both arrested around midnight Wednesday and charged with night hunting and hunting from a public road, both misdemeanors, according to law enforcement officials and jail records. The pair were also charged with possession of a controlled substance, a Class C felony, generally punishable by up to 10 years.

Two charged in hunting case

When ex-football star Kenny Stabler needed help fighting a drunken-driving charge this summer, he turned to one of a handful of lawyers in Alabama who focus almost exclusively on DUI defense work.

Stabler’s attorney, Mark Polson, represents DUI defendants all over the state. Polson successfully defended Stabler last month in Robertsdale Municipal Court, winning an acquittal for the former University of Alabama quarterback.

The group also includes a lawyer in Montgomery who is the former dean of the National College for DUI Defense, and a Huntsville counselor who has his own Dr ger breath-test machine.

The DUI lawyers: It’s big business

The bright red building off of County Road 47 is hard to miss, which is exactly what Assistant Fire Chief Bubba Bossard said they wanted when building the new Perdido Volunteer Fire Department Station.

“It’s easier for the community to see us now,” he said. “We’ve come a long way from a small cinder block building to all of this.”

The building opened Saturday after a year of development funded by county taxes and donations.

New Perdido VFD station operational

Baldwin communities honor veterans

Local schools host Veterans Day programs

Spanish Fort park dedication honors fallen hero

Two men’s war stories

Veterans Day events planned in county

Closings are announced for Veterans Day

While the polls are closed and winners declared, Baldwin County officials will spend the next week going through a record number of provisional challenged ballots following Tuesday election in which more than 80,000 residents voted.

The Baldwin County Board of Registrars received 569 provisional ballots Wednesday, all of which must be checked against poll records, said Doris Hearn, board chairwoman. In the 2004 general election, 81 provisional ballots were cast.

Provisional challenges set record

UNOFFICIAL SUMMARY REPORT GENERAL ELECTION
BALDWIN COUNTY
NOVEMBER 4, 2008
RUN DATE:11/04/08 09:01 PM

VOTES PERCENT

PRECINCTS COUNTED (OF 67) . . . . . 23 34.33
BALLOTS CAST - TOTAL. . . . . . . 19,496

STRAIGHT PARTY VOTING
(WITH 23 OF 67 PRECINCTS COUNTED 34.33%)
DEMOCRATIC (DEM) . . . . . . . . 2,482 27.35
REPUBLICAN (REP) . . . . . . . . 6,592 72.65

FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
(WITH 23 OF 67 PRECINCTS COUNTED 34.33%)
BARACK OBAMA (DEM) . . . . . . . 4,474 22.99
JOHN McCAIN (REP). . . . . . . . 14,804 76.09
CHUCK BALDWIN (IND) . . . . . . . 48 .25
BOB BARR (IND). . . . . . . . . 49 .25
RALPH NADER (IND). . . . . . . . 58 .30
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 24 .12

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Voters streamed to the polls as they opened at 7 a.m. Tuesday across south Alabama. Lines were long but moved quickly.

At the Daphne Civic Center in Baldwin County, the line stretched back to the library at about 7:45 a.m. but kept moving. It took about 15 minutes to make it inside the Civic Center.

In Robertsdale in Baldwin County, about 500 people had voted at City Hall as of 9 a.m. Turnout was likely high in Fairhope, though lines moved quickly and by 9 a.m. had diminished.

Turnout heavy across south Alabama (pix)

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Baldwin County is expected to be part of a record-setting demonstration of the democratic process nationwide today.

County Probate Judge Adrian Johns said he wouldn’t be surprised to see turnout reaching the 80 percent level countywide as voters head to the polls from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Alabama Secretary of State Beth Chapman has predicted statewide turnout will break the all-time record of 76 percent set in 1992.

If that prediction holds true, it would mean nearly 90,000 county residents casting ballots in an election that features no local races. It would shatter the previous record for total number of voters in Baldwin County — about 70,000 in 2004. A percentage turnout record for Baldwin County was not available Monday.

Baldwin poised to make history

A Baldwin County judge last week granted a foster parent’s request for a protection order against a juvenile probation officer.

Circuit Judge Charles C. Partin said after observing foster parent Kaye Barlow during testimony and a nearly six-hour hearing, he concluded “the plaintiff has and would continue to suffer emotional distress in the absence of the entry of a preliminary injunction.”

Turner had served as the child’s probation officer starting June 18. During an August interview, Turner asked Barlow whether she was a homosexual, according to testimony. Barlow refused to answer.

Judge grants protection order

In 2007 Christine Williams and her adult son, Christopher, filed a lawsuit seeking a court order confirming they were the legal titleholders to about 2.3 acres that Historic Blakeley Foundation claimed as its own.

After a three-day hearing that ended Oct. 1, Circuit Court Judge Lang Floyd granted that request in a Thursday order. The property is on the southeastern quarter of the roughly 2,000-acre park on Ala. 225. It includes a 660-foot strip along Blakeley Road and a 220-foot strip along Williams Road.

At the hearing, Christine Williams testified that her parents had purchased the property in the early 1920s. The family has used the property in various ways, including growing row crops, since that time, according to testimony.

Bob Wills said that while Blakeley may have had a paper title to the property, the Williams have used it for more than 20 years, the standard required for the “adverse possession” claim in the lawsuit.

Blakeley Foundation loses contested land

For about three weeks, Baldwin County Sheriff Huey “Hoss” Mack Jr.’s mother received a daily phone call from his office to see whether she was all right.

Mack’s mother wasn’t receiving special treatment, she was testing out the “Are You OK?” program. The new service, which will be open to the public starting Monday, allows senior citizens, the physically challenged and others to receive an automated daily telephone call from the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office checking on their well-being.

“She is not homebound but she doesn’t get out very much,” Mack said about his mother. “It was kind of convenient and I know I could get some feed back.”

It is free.

Service set to begin

There are no local offices on Tuesday’s ballot.

Baldwin voters will be interested in the race between GOP state school board member Randy McKinney of Orange Beach and Democrat Kenyon Berry of Mobile, and U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Mobile, vs. Democratic challenger state Sen. Vivian Davis Figures of Mobile.

There are three local constitutional amendments on the ballot:

No. 1 would create a second Baldwin County Board of Equalization to hear appeals of property valuations. This past year, a record of nearly 15,000 cases were heard by the three-member board, and many observers predict another surge of protests when tax bills go out in December.

No. 2 would give the County Commission the same authority as municipalities to adopt local criminal laws governing the use of county-owned public buildings, parks, boat launches and historic sites. Currently, the county would have to file civil lawsuits to enforce park rules, officials said.

No. 3 would change a previously adopted amendment to clarify how wastewater operations can be excluded from regulations by defining themselves as “cluster facilities.” Once that loophole is closed, supporters said, the Legislature could begin drafting laws overseeing local private sewerage companies, according to reports.

On the ballot

Baldwin County Voting Precincts

It’s not unusual in booming Baldwin County to have a record number of people registered to vote in a presidential election, and it’s happened again.

Voter rolls as of the Oct. 24 deadline were at 114,581, said Doris Hearn, chairwoman of the county Board of Registrars. The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday.

There also is a measurable increase in interest among black residents, according to statistics provided by the Board of Registrars.

Between the 2000 and 2004 general elections, the number of black registered voters only increased by about 450 — 7,243 to 7,697. But as of last month’s deadline, the number had jumped by almost 2,000, to 9,658, statistics show.

Baldwin reaches another registration record