Kianna Smith was 3 for 3 with six RBIs, including a two-run home run, to pace Thomasville to a 10-1 win over visiting Leroy on April 28. Zion Howard earned the win, allowing three hits in a complete game. Kloee Rollins had two hits and an RBI and Aryana Burroughs added a hit and an RBI. • Thomasville 6, WCHS 4 On April 30, Howard allowed three runs on four hits in three innings to get the win. Rollins had a hit and two RBIs, Imani Brothers and Mary Lindsey Drinkard each added a hit and an RBI and Zakiya...

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MAY 10 Red Blood Cross Drive May 10 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Thomasville United Methodist Church in Thomasville. JUNE 1 White Smith Memorial Library, Jackson, will hold a board meeting June 1 at 10 a.m. and is open to the public. JUNE 6 Grove Hill Arts Council will host a Coffee Painting class June 6 at 11 a.m. led by local artist Karla Taylor. The class costs and includes supplies, with coffee used as the painting medium. Spots are limited. JUNE 20 CCHS Class of 1971 will hold its 55th class reunion June 20 at the...

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Clarke County Parks and Recreation Board Chairman Darryl D. Perryman presented a donation to the Clarke County High School baseball program to support equipment acquisition. Bulldogs coach Will Buford is seen accepting the donation.

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A couple of years ago, Democratic Party legal groups found a sympathetic federal panel in the Northern District of Alabama, and that court created a new minority Democratic congressional district. That district came into existence a little more than a year ago. The Constitution gives state legislatures the power to draw congressional and legislative districts. For decades, Alabama’s Legislature created districts that yielded six Republicans and one Democrat. Using the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the federal court drew new congressional maps that led to a second Democratic district. That seat is now held by Mobile Democrat Shomari Figures. The state’s delegation...

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GULF SHORES — Jackson High School won a third straight state championship in the Class 4A boys 4x100-meter relay at the Alabama High School Athletic Association’s outdoor track and field championships on Saturday. The Aggies pulled off the threepeat with two new members of the squad and without Mr. Football E.J. Crowell, now playing at Alabama, and Landon Duckworth, now playing at South Carolina. Keeyun and Keegan Chapman are the only two members of the team that played a part in all three titles but newcomers Jamarcus Locke and Victor Darrington helped Jackson finish in 43.88 seconds in extremely windy...

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Every year, the ladies of our church host a tea the week before Mother’s Day. It is a special tradition that brings everyone together for fellowship, a shared meal and a message that always leaves us with something to carry home. This year, however, the message began before our guest speaker ever stepped inside the church. On the Wednesday before Saturday’s tea, our scheduled speaker called our music director and told him she had been diagnosed with pneumonia. She was extremely ill and would not be able to come. He called me right away, but before I could worry, he...

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Wilson Hall Middle School Principal Dr. Carolyn Taite was honored on Principal’s Week.

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I have been watching a lot of YouTube and Facebook lately and the ads drive me crazy. So many of them feel fake and I often wonder if they are AI-generated. There are endless ads about losing weight. You would think everyone would be skinny by now. One minute there is a “Korean gelatin trick” and the next there is another ad explaining why it failed. According to them, it only didn’t work because you bought the wrong one. I once ordered what was advertised as a pair of Clarks shoes from a Facebook ad. When they arrived, they were...

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Coleman Pilkington allowed four hits and didn’t walk anybody in a complete-game win as Thomasville nipped Providence Christian 3-1 in the decisive third game of the Class 3A second-round playoff series on May 1 at Donnie Fendley Field. The Tigers (21-9) go to Auburn to meet Lee- Scott Academy (24-11) in the quarterfinals with a doubleheader Thursday at 4 p.m. and a third game Friday at noon if needed. Providence Christian scored its only run off a Thomasville error in the fourth inning but the Tigers responded in the bottom half of the inning on Braydon Bradford’s RBI single to...

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Child Abuse Prevention Month is being marked in Clarke County with 188 blue and white pinwheels in front of the county courthouse in Grove Hill. The pinwheels represent the 188 children served last year by the Regional Child Advocacy Center, which provides services to children in Choctaw, Clarke and Washington counties.

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