We all can recall our senior year of high school, from our last year playing sports, to the sports banquets, to senior play, to senior skip day, to graduation, and then senior trip before going off to college. You wanted to go to school just to see your friends because most of you would never be in school together again. All of those are fond memories for me, as I look back on my senior year at Dora High School in 2004. Several friends and I actually spent some time discussing those times recently through social media, because frankly, we’re nostalgic and it’s human nature.

Daliyah Jones, a student at Pickens County High School, who also attends the Pickens County College and Career Center, is being called a hero after saving the life of a baby after the deadly tornadoes on Saturday, January 11, 2020.
Jones said that once the storm had subsided in the Settlement community that she and her uncle were riding around on a 4-wheeler, checking to see if anyone needed help when she heard a lady screaming that her baby was injured.
The 17-year-old then ran over to see if she could help in any way.

On Saturday, January 11, 2020, a tornado, confirmed to be an EF-2 by the National Weather Service, touched down near the Settlement community near Carrollton, claiming the lives of three individuals and destroying the homes of many more. Tyrone Spain, 51, Albert Barnett, 85, and wife Susan Barnett, 75, all lost their lives in the tornado. The NWS crews say that winds reached 132 miles per hour during the storm. The result was a mix of brick and wood-frame houses and mobile homes scattered all throughout the community.

I have qualified for re-election as Revenue Commissioner.  I have been employed in the Revenue Commissioner’s Office for 24 years.  I began working as an appraisal and mapping clerk in August, 1996.  I was promoted to Appraiser in 2003 and held that position until running for office in 2014.  I was sworn in as Revenue Commissioner on October 1, 2015.    

The Aliceville annual Salute to Veterans Luncheon will be held in the Aliceville Museum Events Room located at 104 Broad Street, NE in Aliceville at 11:30 am on Tuesday, November 12. Tickets are $10.00 each. Due to limited seating, reservations are recommended and may be made by calling the Museum at 205-373-2363. Lunch, which is being catered by Angie’s Place Restaurant of Aliceville, will be served starting at 11:30, and the program will begin at noon.

On Friday, September 27, 2019, Aliceville Public Library held a virtual job fair to help those in the Pickens County community who are looking for employment opportunities.

Gordo’s City Council met on September 9th at 5:30 p.m. to briefly discuss a few items on their agenda. After reading and approving the minutes from their August meeting, the council expressed their gratitude for the cards and posters sent to them by various classes from Gordo Elementary for the money that the council had sent to them.
Next, Mayor Craig Patterson made a formal motion to the council to make Johnny Stephenson the permanent police chief for Gordo and the motion was passed.

The September 11, 2019 Aliceville City Council meeting began with Warren Lavender calling the meeting to order, as Mayor Marva Gipson was absent for the meeting. The first item discussed by council was regarding Sunday alcohol sales. Since Mayor Gipson, nor City Attorney John Russell was available, the council chose to table the item until a later date. The motion was passed unanimously. The council then made a motion to pass the 2019-2020 budget. Without Mayor Gipson being at the meeting, the council also voted unanimously to table a vote to pass the 2019-2020 budget.

The minutes of the August 13, 2019 meeting were approved and under new business, the commission voted to declare a Canon copying machine in the appraisal office as surplus and authorize its disposal. The next item under new business was also dealing with the appraisals office. It was approved, just two weeks after it was approved for the Sheriff ’s office to purchase two F-150s that the appraisals office was approved to purchase two of the trucks, however, Revenue Commissioner Michelle Kirk said that the money used for the trucks would not come from the county’s budget.