USDA partners with Black Belt Community Foundation to provide fresh produce to households
Volunteers who helped work the food drive at the Carrollton Service Center on Thursday, July 16, 2020.
BY BRIAN HAMILTON
Managing Editor
Pickens County Schools push back start date
Pickens County Superintendent Jamie Chapman discusses Pickens County’s school reopening plans.
BY BRIAN HAMILTON
Managing Editor
Rice Law Firm donates masks to Arbor Woods
Richard Dickerson and Arbor Woods Administrator Heather McCool after the donation was made.
BY BRIAN HAMILTON
Managing Editor
Gordo employees to receive hazard pay
Ryan Alexander from LeCroy Richardson presents Gordo’s annual audit during last week’s council meeting
BY BRIAN HAMILTON
Managing Editor
Aliceville discusses employee raises and bonuses
Aliceville City Councilman Terrence Windham discusses giving employees hazard pay during the July 8th city council meeting.
BY BRIAN HAMILTON
Managing Editor
Gordo resident unhappy that commission has not cleaned up Easter storm damage
Gordo resident Frank Zimmerman complains that the commission has failed to clean up storm damage.
BY BRIAN HAMILTON
Managing Editor
Gordo resident Frank Zimmerman spoke before the Pickens County Commission during the Tuesday, June 23, 2020 meeting regarding the Easter storm damage on his property.
“I’m complaining about the Easter Sunday storm clean up at my house in Gordo on Gordo-Reform Road,” Zimmerman said. “I’ve owned that property 50 years and I just feel like somebody ought to come see me about it.”
Zimmerman said Commissioner Drew Elmore had told him that he was going to do something about the damage, but hasn’t.
City of Aliceville to place speed breaker on 1st Street
Mayor Gipson and Councilman Max Allen discuss an agenda item during the June 24 council meeting.
BY BRIAN HAMILTON
Managing Editor
PCMC owes Carrollton over 60k for water, sewer, and garbage service
BY BRIAN HAMILTON
The June 4, 2020 Carrollton Town Council meeting began with Mayor Mickey Walker giving a COVID-19 update. “Since the last meeting, the Governor has slacked up on the guidelines, so we slacked up on the stores as long as they maintain six foot distance,” Walker said. “If that changes again with the Governor, we will change with it because we’ve already got that ordinance in effect.”
Walker mentioned that the city had received a Pickens County Medical Center water bill and received payment for $5,623.11 last month and the balance is $63,869.20.
Pickens County schools set graduation dates
BY BRIAN HAMILTON
Editor
After much deliberation, Pickens County Schools Aliceville, Gordo, and Pickens County finally set dates for graduation ceremonies and for the first time in recent memory, they will not all be on the same night.
“We threw out some parameters and we let the school make that decision because of everything that was going on,” Pickens County Superintendent Jamie Chapman said.