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(BREAKING: 5:45 P.M Monday) Commission approves $0.01 sales tax increase to benefit J. Paul Jones Hospital
County commissioners are hopeful and optimistic that a new sales tax increase could possibly save Wilcox County’s only remaining hospital; as each day, J. Paul Jones Hospital in Camden moves further and further to shutting it’s doors for the first time in 60 years. An official vote was taken for a taxable resolution, one that…
Read More(BREAKING: Monday 5:30) Wilcox’ ‘Open Forum’ discussion on hospital saving Sales Tax
The Wilcox County commissioners have scheduled an official Work Session next Tuesday, September 5th 2017, to discuss a resolution to save J. Paul Jones hospital in Camden. This meeting , which will be open to the public, begins at 5:30 next Tuesday afternoon in the courthouse annex. A resolution to discuss an increase of 1…
Read More(BREAKING: Saturday 10 p.m.) Editor of ‘The Era’ brings home several APA Awards
Ethan Van Sice, 26, Editor of ‘The Wilcox Progressive Era’ newspaper in Camden, raked in a total of four (4) awards over the weekend during Alabama’s APA Summer Press Convention in Orange Beach. Publisher Glenda Curl, of Camden, accompanied Van Sice during the 3-day event, along with his girlfriend, Hannah Feltus, of Fairhope. Of the…
Read More(BREAKING) Camden units watching out for Marengo shooter
At approximately 9:18 tonight, Camden PD and other forces were told to keep an eye out for a white 2004 model Lincoln could be driven by a fleeing suspect involved in shooting in Marengo County earlier today. Marengo County informed that they did not see which way the suspect was driving, or in what direction.…
Read More(UPDATE: Friday) Man who robbed State Farm still at Large
On May 12th at approximately 11:40am, an African American male about 5’6″ 135 lbs between the age of 18-24 , entered State Farm office on Claiborne St and asked to use the bathroom. After an office representative advised the male there was no public restroom, the man told the employee that he would take all the cash…
Read More(BREAKING NEWS, 4:53 FRIDAY) All passengers safely escape overturned vehicle
At approximately 4:53 this afternoon, dispatch operators sent medical and law enforcement professionals to a location off County Road 1 in Lower Peachtree. Dispatch reported a single-vehicle accident. Dispatch informed responders with only information he briefed from an OnStar alert and a short phone call from one of the passengers who claimed “everyone had exited…
Read MoreBurk Harvell
Burk Harvell December 14, 1944 – November 14, 2016 Burk Harvell, age 71, a log truck driver of Pine Hill, Alabama died November 14, 2016 at Jackson Hospital in Montgomery, Alabama. He was born December 14, 1944 in Pine Hill, Alabama to Oscar Young and Minnie Lee Harvell. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy…
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