The HHS Mac McAlpine Award recipient Jon Luke Sauls presented by Dr. McCoy, HHS Principal

The Haleyville Schools Board of Education met Tuesday, May 22, with all members present. The first order of business was the election of officers. Barry Burleson was elected President of the Board and Steve Stout, Vice-President of the Board.

Expenditures for April was approved in the amount of $1,281,079.19. Amendments to the Haleyville City School Policies and Procedures Manual for School Library Media Centers were approved to be sent to personnel for input.

Three field trips and three fundraisers were approved. Amendments to the substitute Teachers list were approved.

Dwight Thomas representing the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4543 presented District 1 V.F.W. Citizenship Americanism Teacher first place awards to:

Sheynon Baggett for Grade K-5 Teacher of the Year

Beth Pugh Townsend for Grade 9-12 Teacher of the year

Allison Sigler – Grade 6-8 got 2nd place in the District but they only give an award for 1st. place

The personnel changes approved were quite extensive and can be found here:

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Fire destroyed an unoccupied house on 6th Avenue in South Haleyville just after midnight Tuesday morning, May 22. The Haleyville Fire Department responded quickly, but the structure was completely engulfed in flames when they arrived.

David Curtis Wood, 61, left the Hamilton Aged and Infirmed center around 8:15 a.m Monday morning, May 21, wearing only white boxer shorts. Wood, 6’3″, 160 pounds, brown hair and blue eyes, was serving a life sentence for burglary from Mobile County and has been incarcerated since 1994. If anyone has any information of Wood, please contact local law enforcement officials or the Alabama Department of Corrections at 800-831-8825.

Marion Winston Community Action

Low-Income Energy Assistance Sign-Up Dates:

Cooling Assistance–Community Action will begin taking calls on May 23 to schedule appointments for people who are 60 and older or drawing disability.

Haleyville Office located at 1205 10th Avenue Neighborhood Facility Building

 Open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 8:30—2:30.  Phone 205-486-7239

Double Springs Office 25125 Highway 195

 Open Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 8:00—4:00.  Phone number is 205-489-5448

I’m happy to announce that Northwest Medical Center in Winfield has been sold to new owners, avoiding a possible closure. My staff and I worked with the Trump Administration and the USDA to find a solution to keep the hospital open. We hope to soon have good news about the Russellville Hospital as well. Since Obamacare was passed in 2010, 83 rural hospitals have closed. I am doing everything I can to keep this from happening in the 4th Congressional District.

On Saturday, May 12, 2018, at 7 pm The Winston County Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #51 hosted its second annual Fallen Officer’s Memorial on the front steps of the Court House. This was to kick off National Police Officers Week.

Master of ceremonies was the Honorable Judge Bobby Aderholt; also speaking was newly appointed District Judge Daryl Burt and State representative Tim Wadsworth along FOP President Brad Curtis and Sheriff Tommy Moore. Police Officers from every department in Winston County were in attendance. Reading the names of the fallen officers were representatives from their department’s giving his length of service and the date that he was killed in the line of duty.

Also, the Alabama State Game and Fish Department’s Honor Guard did a 21 gun salute and a bugler from Alabama State Trooper’s Office played Taps.

The FOP Lodge #51would like to thank everyone for coming out on a beautiful Saturday evening to help celebrate National Police Officers week and remember our fallen Officers who had given the ultimate sacrifice for the citizen of this County.

We would also like to thank the Haleyville Fire Department and Terry Pruitt for their ladder truck and crane that held the large American Flag over the crowd. We would also like to thank the Double Springs Fire and Police Departments for their help with traffic and the closing of Blake drive for the ceremony.
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Michael J Glasheen

Double Springs, Al.

The Haleyville Fire Department responded quickly early Saturday morning, May 12, to a lumber fire inside a kiln at Great Southern Enterprises, located just off Highway 195, approximately 1/2 mile east of Lakeland Hospital. The kiln is a large metal building filled with lumber which utilizes an external gas furnace to heat the inside of the building to 220 degrees. Fans in the ceiling circulate the hot air. Basically, it’s a giant convection oven which over a period of days, removes moisture from the wood and opens the “pores” of the wood, a process to prepare the wood for later cutting and treatment with chemicals under pressure in order to preserve the wood. The lumber inside the building was removed with forklifts and sprayed down by firemen in order to get to the fire at the back side of the building and behind a huge stack of lumber. The Pebble Fire Department assisted HFD with a tanker.  The cause of the fire nor the exact extent of damages are known at this time. See more photos below. Continue reading

HHS Seniors left early Saturday morning for Washington and New York. A little problem in TN when bus 2 got stuck coming out of a gas station. Saved by a Toyota Tundra.

HHS Girls Softball team was defeated by White Plains 13-3 in 5 innings Saturday morning and Cherokee County 5-3 Friday night in Tuscaloosa thus ending their season. The girls beat Leeds earlier Friday 12-11 in 9 innings. Haleyville won the Area Championship to advance to the regional playoff. Congratulations to the girls for a great season!

The Haleyville Fire Department responded quickly to a fire late Wednesday night, May 9, at 3334 14th Avenue just outside the Haleyville City Limits. There was a report of an explosion before the fire which completely destroyed the house. The occupant, Wayne Gilbert was treated at the scene by medics. The extent of his injuries and the cause of the fire are unknown.