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Aliceville mourns another soldier killed in Operation Enduring Freedom; DoD to investigate shooting

By Doug Sanders Jr.

Editor and Publisher

The War on Terror was brought a little close to home for Pickens County once again as Aliceville recently lost another soldier deployed to Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.

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Prisons Bureau awards contract to build prison

Mayor Billy McKinzey announced last Friday the awarding of the contract to build the new federal detention facility near Aliceville.

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Sessions to host energy forum in Aliceville today

WASHINGTON--U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) will host an energy forum at the Museum of Cultural Arts Center in Aliceville at 9 a.m. today (Wednesday, Aug. 6).

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Frederic Douglas Moore Jr., 43, of Tuscaloosa was arrested July 24 by agents of the District Attorney ’s Office for the 24th Judicial Circuit and officers of the Alabama Department of Public Safety, State Troopers Division, and charged with murder in the death of John R. Eaton Jr., according to a press release from District Attorney Chris McCool.

Moore arrested for April 20 vehicular murder

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PICKENS, TUSCALOOSA RECIPIENT OF AWARDS --- Among the award recipients at the Area III AACD meeting last week were Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox, Dee River Ranch and the Pickens County Herald. In front, left to right, are Pickens County Supervisor Jack Howell, Mayor Maddox, Mike and Annie Dee of Dee River Ranch; and Herald Editor and Publisher Doug Sanders Jr. In back are Pickens County Supervisors Don Sherrod and Diane McCool.

County well represented at AACD annual meeting

By Doug Sanders Jr.

Editor and Publisher

Pickens County was represented quite well at the Annual Meeting of the Area III Alabama Association of Conservation Districts, held last Wednesday at the Alabama 4-H Center near Columbiana.