Jimmy Daryl Burt will be sworn in as Circuit Judge for Winston and Marion Counties on Tuesday, February 13, 2:30 p.m. in the second-floor courtroom of the Marion County Courthouse.

Daryl Burt was appointed by Governor Kay Ivey on February 1 to fill the position of retiring Judge John Bentley as Circuit Judge. He will serve until January 2021. In order to remain as judge, he will have to run and win an election in 2020. Burt has been a practicing attorney with the firm Atkinson, Atkinson, and Burt, LLC in Winfield.

The Haleyville Lady Lions basketball team defeated Hamilton Monday night to advance to the area championship game Wednesday against Winfield. That game will begin at 3:30 and can be heard on Paradise 92.7. The Varsity boys will play Hamilton tonight in Fayette. The winner of that game will advance to the area finals.