Taylor News

With the campaigns of many candidates in full swing and all eyes on the July 14th election, I feel that it is important to continue communications with my constituents of District 5 as I have done over the past four years.

The 4th of July celebration Saturday at the National Peanut Festival fairgrounds held a carnival-like atmosphere with games of chance for the kids, funnel cakes for the hungry, and lots of flag-waving patriotism amid rock music and a watermelon eating contest.

In 19 days, an estimated 30 percent of the city's registered voters will put forth the effort to go to the polls to elect new city and school representatives.

A Southern Alabama man is dead after a single-vehicle crash Friday night in Geneva County.

A single-vehicle crash Friday night in Geneva County killed a local man. Douglas Ryan Smith, 31, Slocomb, was traveling west in a 2008 Chevrolet sport utility vehicle when the vehicle ran off the road.

Vacation Bible School dates for churches with the Coffee Baptist Association are as follows: Roeton, June 11-15, 6-8:30 p.m.; Whitewater, June 21-25, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Goodman, July 5-10, 5:30-8:30 p.m. For direction to churches, call 894-6411. - - - - - - - - - - - - Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, located on County Road 11 just off Highway 231 North ...

Times Staff Writer jon.busdeker@htimes.com It may have been the juicy, slow-cooked pork.

Big Cove BBQ edged out New Market for the title of best BBQ restaurant in northeast Alabama.

The city is partnering with Troy University Dothan in a project that will provide water and increase water pressure to a growing area of the city.

Monday was supposed to be the first day of summer school at Taylor Road Academy.

When police arrested the principal of Honeysuckle Middle School recently during a drug trafficking investigation involving her son, they say she threw a yard tool toward one of the investigating officers.

Since he was a kid, Adam McLendon wanted to be a fireman and paramedic. "I thought it was exciting and would be very rewarding," said McLendon, a firefighter who worked with the town of Taylor and the City of Ozark prior to joining the Dothan Fire Department five years ago.

The principal of a Dothan middle school has been placed on paid administrative leave after her arrest on misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest and interfering with government operations.

On May 17, 2009 the Taylor Police Department initiated a traffic stop on a beige Navigator, for no tag, at the 5300 block of State Hwy.

This afternoon, Paul Ferrell of Dothan announced that he will be running for the district 5 seat of the Dothan City Commission.

The new Houston-Love Memorial Library will be more than just a collection of books.

David Cornelius threw his hat in the ring tonight for District Five City Commissioner.

The Dothan City Commission will not formally vote on a plan to eliminate the 4 percent sales tax on groceries, a plan first proposed by Commissioner Keith Seagle two weeks ago, and further explained during a March 12 press conference.

The state House Tourism and Travel Committee gave its OK today to a bill that could permit and tax electronic bingo games in eight Alabama counties.

Here's a road closure that may affect you as you drive to work Monday morning, it's just outside of Taylor.