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| Alabama Gov. Fob James |
AUG. 18, 2022
Over 4,000 attend rodeo: Over 4,000 rodeo fans descended on
Frisco City on Friday and Saturday nights to attend the Second Annual Monroe
County Rodeo.
The rodeo, which was sponsored by the Monroeville/Monroe
County Chamber of Commerce and the Monroeville Kiwanis Club, attracted over
1,700 fans on Friday night and over 2,500 on Saturday night, according to
Chamber Executive Director Penelope Hines.
“Fun was had by people of all ages,” Hines said. “And we had
a large amount of out-of-town tags that were noticed by volunteers parking the
cars.”
MA visits No. 7 Jackson Ac. Friday at 7: Monroe Academy will
get an early test Friday when the Volunteers take on Jackson Academy in Jackson
at 7 p.m. to open the 2022 football season.
“We’ve got to establish the run to be successful this
season,” said Monroe head coach Mitchell Turberville. “The key will be how well
our offensive and defensive lineman play. We’ve got experience at the skill
positions, which is good, but it all starts up front with the linemen.”
Corps say river dredging at Claiborne to begin soon: The
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced that dredging for small boat traffic
will begin soon at the “Claiborne pool.”
According to Corps’ officials, Construction Solutions
International (CSI) will use a barge with excavator equipment to begin
maintenance dredging operations of the small boat access on the “Claiborne
pool.” The work will progress upstream from the Lock and Dam and may require
the temporary closure of the boat ramps located upstream.
27 YEARS AGO
AUG. 21, 1997
Receives grant: The Uriah Water system, through the Monroe County Commission, recently received a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) check for $500,000 to extend water service 28 miles to 125 households in the Eliska and Rocky Hill communities and install a 100,000-gallon storage tank and a 250 gallon-per-minute gavel well and treatment facility. Receiving the check were Monroe County Commissioners Carlisle McClure and Jeral Jordan, Governor Fob James and Uriah Water Board members Albert Hollinger and Fred Brake.
Lyeffion native Elaine Covin has been hired to coach women’s
softball at Alabama Southern Community College in Monroeville.
Covin, a 24-year veteran of the Conecuh County public school
system, lives in Evergreen with her husband, Danny.
Covin is a graduate of the former Lyeffion High School in
Lyeffion, Patrick Henry Junior College (Alabama Southern Community College),
Livingston University (University of West Alabama) in Livingston and Troy State
University in Troy. She holds a master’s degree in physical education and
science, and has earned an associate degree in Emergency Medical Services from
L.B. Wallace Community College in Andalusia.
In addition to coaching softball, Covin will teach Emergency
Medical Services classes at ASCC.
Covin replaces Marsha Tourtellot, whose contract with ASCC
wasn’t renewed for the 1997-98 school term. Tourtellot was at ASCC a year. She
did not field a team, but did recruit some players for the program.
52 YEARS AGO
AUG. 17, 1972
Two former Monroe Academy athletes will leave Saturday for Livingston University, where they will participate in the athletic program of the school. Johnny Mac Hollinger, halfback and linebacker on last year’s state championship team, will play football for Livingston, while Robert Dunn, who participated in all sports at MA, will be playing baseball and serving as a manager for the football team. Both are 1972 graduates at Monroe Academy.
Local Guardsmen on parade: Pfc. Billy Taylor of Monroeville, member of Detachment 2, 778th Maintenance Co., Alabama National Guard, carries the company banner in parade held at Camp Shelby, Miss., where the local guard unit is undergoing two weeks of summer training. Warrant Officer George Singleton of Monroeville is shown behind him.
Beetles forced cutting in Claiborne Cemetery: Trees in the
Old Claiborne Cemetery were cut and sold for pulpwood several weeks ago because
they were infested with the southern pine beetle and were in danger of dying.
W.E. Deer, Claiborne merchant-farmer who said he directed
the cutting, said it was done with the approval of the Union Sunday School at
Perdue Hill, which is representative of the churches of the Claiborne-Perdue
Hill area.
Furthermore, Deer said, every effort was made to avoid
damage to the cemetery, and the broken markers evident there today are the work
of vandals over a period of several years. A check of the cemetery since the
cutting was concluded reveals relatively little recent damage, and a
representative of a paper company who visited the site said removal of the
trees was a “wise decision.”
77 YEARS AGO
AUG. 21, 1947
Ginning Season Is Under Way In County: The cotton ginning
season is under way once more in Monroe County with several bales reported
ginned thus far.
The county agent’s office said reports are that Albert
Boroughs of Perdue Hill ginned what was probably the county’s first bale last
weekend and that several bales have been ginned in Frisco City and vicinity and
a few in Monroeville this week.
Frisco Grill Opens At Frisco City: Frisco City’s newest restaurant – the Frisco Grill – opened to the public Saturday. Located in the new Frisco Theatre building, the restaurant is operated by the theater management. It is open from 11 a.m. until 11 p.m. daily.
Baseball Play-Offs Will Begin Today: Playoffs in the
Tri-County Baseball League are scheduled to get under way this afternoon with
Atmore meeting McCullough at McCullough and Flomaton playing host to Evergreen.
Monroeville and Frisco City, other members of the league,
were eliminated from the finals during regular season play which closed early
this week.
Frisco City was eliminated from the finals in its last game
Sunday afternoon when Evergreen pushed across four runs in the ninth to rack up
a 4-0 victory. M. Watson was the losing pitcher, giving up six hits, while
Wendell Hart was the winner.
Two three-game series have been planned for the playoffs,
with the winners meeting to determine the championship of the league.
140 YEARS AGO
AUG. 18, 1884
A shocking and horrible death: Last Saturday week, in company with couple of friends, Mr. James Latham left Monroeville for his home about five or six miles in the country. When about two miles from town, and near the residence of Mr. Monroe Blackwell, Latham remarked to his friends that he would beat them to some cattle that were in the road, a short distance ahead, and putting spurs to his horse, a spirited young animal, rushed forward, and reaching the cattle, before they could get out of the way, the horse attempted to jump over one laying down, and stumbling, threw Latham and rolled over on him, fracturing his skull and injuring him internally. Mr. L. was carried in to Mr. Blackwell’s by his friends in an insensible condition. He never spoke afterwards and died on Monday following at 11 o’clock. He was a hardworking, industrious young man and whiskey is supposed to have been the cause of his death.
Improvements: Judge Sowell having purchased the new store house on the east side of the public square, of Mr. Travis Simmons, has moved it over and attached it to the store house at present occupied by Messrs. Sowell & Son. This will give the firm more room in the transaction of their large mercantile business, adds no little to the appearance of that part of the town. Judge Sowell also purchased the same time the old Monroeville hotel, now occupied by Mr. Jones.
Mrs. Leslie and Mrs. Hibbard are spending the summer over the Bay, the former at Howards and the latter at Battles Wharf. One of the proprietors of the hotel at Howards, Mr. John Bradley, was formerly of Monroe and has hosts of friends in the county who wish him well in his new field of labor.
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