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Time change comes earlier this year
By Evan Carden SA Editor
      The annual changeover to daylight savings time, when Americans set their clocks ahead one hour, is this weekend, three weeks earlier than normal. People will set their clocks ahead Sunday, March 11, instead of the first Sunday in April as has been done in the past. The change was mandated by the E...
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Celebrates 50th anniversary
      Slayton Brothers celebrated its 50th anniversary last week with a ribbon cutting and open house, attended by friends, family, city officials, local citizens and representatives of STHIL Corporation.
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Rural planning organization to meet in Grove Hill March 20
      A meeting of the Clarke County Citizens Advisory Committee of the Alabama Tombigbee Rural Planning Organization (RPO) has been scheduled for March 20, 6 p.m., in the auditorium of the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) building in Grove Hill. The public is invited to attend.
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JPD senior fraud seminar rescheduled for today
      The Jackson Police Department's seminar on fraud against the elderly originally scheduled for last Thursday has been rescheduled for today (Thursday) from 2-4 p.m. at Jackson City Hall. The seminar was canceled at the last minute last week due to the severe weather. The public is encouraged and in...
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Toddtown resident accused of raping runaway found at his home
      The Clarke County Sheriff's Department reported the arrests of two rape suspects this week. Thomas Earl Peters, of Thomasville, was arrested Feb. 29 for the rape of a 27-year-old woman. He was charged with rape, first degree. That same day Marshall Ray Robinson was arrested after a runaway teenag...
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Two injured in three-vehicle collision
By Evan Carden SA Editor
      Two people received what appeared to be non-life threatening injuries in a collision which occurred Friday, March 2, around 2:45 p.m. at the intersection of highways 43 and 69. According to Jackson Police reports, Lakeisha Washington, 23, of Gainestown, the driver of a 1998 Pontiac Sunbird, attemp...
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Jackson Municipal Court Records
      The following information has been provided by the Jackson Municipal Court for the past two weeks. Donald W. Powell, criminal trespass, third degree, dismissed. Rachelle Paulette Powell, criminal trespass, third degree, dismissed. Jessie Sims, driving with suspended driver's license, dismiss on ...
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Teen arrested for giving false report
      Jackson Police charged a 17- year-old juvenile with false reporting of an incident around 5 p.m., Tuesday, March 6. According to Chief Charles Burge, the teen arrived at the police station and reported that he interrupted a burglary at his residence in the 100 block of Skinner Drive and was assaul...
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GLIJ drawings conducted
      Drawings for January and February for the 2007 Get Lost In Jackson get fit program were recently conducted. Top photo: L-R, Tim Mullinix, CRNP and Dr. Norman Stevens, at Family Medical of Jackson, drew Carol T. Jackson's name for the $100 cash prize for January.
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Group wants return to unit system of government
By Ellen Williams SA Correspondent
      A number of Washington County citizens are becoming increasingly concerned about the indebtedness of their county government and momentum seems to be building for a return to the unit system instead of the district system now in place.
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Completes mass casualty training
      Members of the Washington County Volunteer Fire Association recently gathered at the Washington County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) office at the airport in Chatom for training with the County's Mass Casualty Trailer.
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Deer Park man charged with sexual abuse against a child
By Evan Carden SA Editor
      A Deer Park man was arrested last week for the alleged sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12. According to Washington County Sheriff's Department Capt. Terry Beasley, Charles Anthony Robbins, 21, of Deer Park was arrested March 2 and charged with sexual abuse. He said the alleged abuse, whic...
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Sheriff's office receives domestic violence grant
By Evan Carden SA Editor
      The Washington County Sheriff's Department recently received a $5,000 grant to be used in the fight against domestic violence. According to Sheriff Richard Stringer, the grant was received through the Mobile County District Attorney's Office and must be directed toward the costs associated with pr...
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ATTENTION Worthless Check Writers
      The District Attorney's Worthless Check Unit is conducting a BAD CHECK ROUNDUP. The roundup will continue through March, 2007. Any person with outstanding checks are advised to take care of them at once. There will be NO agreements and NO extensions in these cases.
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WashCo Sheriff's cars get new look
By Evan Carden SA Editor
      The Washington County Sheriff's Department police cruisers have a new look and Sheriff Richard Stringer said eventually you won't be able to tell any of the cars apart. All of the patrol cars have been given the same striping, in what the sheriff says is just one step in making the department more...
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Governor's 'Action Commission' to focus on rural areas of state
      Governor Bob Riley recently announced the formation of the Rural Alabama Action Commission to coordinate efforts aimed at improving the quality of life in the state's rural areas. The Governor also announced he has appointed former Senator Gerald Dial to serve as the commission's executive director...
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Residents want littering stopped
      The South Alabamian recently received a request to photograph an area on Firetower Road in the Fairford community of south Washington County where there is a problem with illegal dumping and littering.
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