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Managing White-tailed Deer: Camera Surveys

Managing White-tailed Deer: Camera Surveys October 28, 2019 Posted by: Damon Lowery, Mark D. Smith, Chad H. Newbolt, Stephen S. Ditchkoff in Forestry & Wildlife Print 14 min read Landowners and hunters continually seek new tools, information, and techniques for...

Praying for Hunter

Last Friday morning no one in Bibb County expected the news that came. A student was involved in a horrible wreck and airlifted to a hospital with serious injuries. Word soon spread around town...

Seales Named Prep Player Of The Week

Brody Seales had four interceptions in a Class 5A win over Tuscaloosa's ACA last Friday night in the Choctaw's season finale, wrapping up a 10-0 undefeated season for the Bibb County High School Choctaws. The...

Choctaws Shut Down the Skeptics with a Shutout Win “4 Bice”

"Is this real? They keep throwing me the ball!" Brody Seales exclaimed on the field. With four of the six interceptions Bibb pulled down against the American Christian Academy (ACA) Patriots, Brody (#3) stayed...

Auburn University, Alabama Extension bring anti-vaping education to Alabama, Bibb County

From Matthew D. Hartzell Courtesy of "The Newsroom" at Auburn University  https://ocm.auburn.edu/experts/2019/10/240849-adrienne-duke-youth-vaping.php and Escape Vapes presentation by Extension agent Synithia Flowers to the West Blocton Middle School 7th Grade. Do the names "Juul" or "Hookah"...

Coldwater Road To Finish This Fall

Coldwater Road The resurfacing schedule of Coldwater Road has been in question depending on the allowable time frame for the treating material, which cannot be applied after temperatures drop to a certain level. Typically the...

Halloween Means Kids Will Have a Good Christmas

You may have read about the Deasons in our previous article, Changing Lives, One Child at a Time after we visited their home full of 14 children to find out about foster children and...
West Blocton High School's Head Football Coach, Eric Hiott

Coach Hiott Discusses West Blocton’s Unique Atmosphere

“On Friday nights when we walk out that door, I get the same feeling I did when I was 17. That hill is packed. The stands are packed, the sides are packed. It doesn’t...

Bibb’s Boys Continue to Crush with Victory Over Marbury

The Marbury Bulldogs hosted Bibb's Choctaws Thursday night, in a shift from the normal Friday night schedule. Just north of Prattville, and barely off the interstate on Highway 31, Marbury's facilities were top notch....

Dry Spell Brings in Hotshot Firefighters From California

On his way to South Carolina a few weeks ago, Sean Baker got a call as he and his Hotshot firefighting crew were rolling through Birmingham. "They told us to divert to a fire...