At the conclusion of the Fayette County Board of Education’s Oct. 22 meeting, Fayette County Superintendent Jim Burkhalter presented board members Sam Sullivan and Tim Fields with framed resolutions commending them for their service on the board. Board member John Aaron was absent from the meeting, with all other board members in attendance.

The Fayette County Commission voted to hire two substitute workers for the Fayette County Aging Program during its Oct. 19 meeting. All commissioners were present for the meeting. Commissioner Joe Acker made a motion to hire two workers for the program, and the motion was approved unanimously. The two substitute workers will be used to fill in at any of the Aging Programs within the county when needed.

The Fayette Tigers traveled to Red Bay for its final game of the 2020 football season. Despite a gallant and hard-fought effort by Fayette, the team lost to the Tigers of Red Bay by a score of 36-20. Following an exchange of punts to start the game, Fayette began its second possession of the contest at its 24-yard line. After advancing near midfield, Fayette’s quarterback Blake Johnson was sacked for a seven-yard loss, then threw an interception on the next play that was returned by Red Bay to the Fayette 34-yard line.

When the federal government legalized hemp farming through the 2018 farm bill, Scott and Charlene Shepherd decided that they wanted to get in on the ground floor of the hemp market in Alabama.

The Fayette City Council certified the election runoff results in the council’s Ward 1 race and expressed its opposition to the local amendment that would add an additional three mils to the real property tax paid in the county at its Oct 13 meeting.

On Nov. 3, local voters will decide on their choice for president, a U.S. senate seat, a Congressional House seat, President of the Public Service Commission, two county commission seats, state amendments and one local amendment that will affect only Fayette County.

Fayette County High School hosted its third annual AP Celebration on Wednesday, Oct. 21. The school currently offers seven Advanced Placement courses. During the 2016-17 school year, FCHS gave 44 exams and had eight students make a qualifying score. This year, Fayette County High School gave 187 exams and had 36 qualifying scores.

Despite the cancellation of this year’s Fayette “Frog Level Festival,” the Fayette Area Chamber of Commerce encouraged its members and all downtown business to display the traditional wooden frogs that are seen at festival time. The Fayette Garden Club held its annual judging competition, and the results of the contest were recently announced. There were four categories that the frogs were judged in: Most Keeping with Business, Most Creative, Prettiest and Best Overall.

A two vehicle accident occurring on North Temple Avenue at approximately 3:15 p.m. on Oct. 23 caused damage to both vehicles and resulted in one person being taken by ambulance to the hospital for treatment of minor injuries.

Fayette had one of its better games moving the ball on offense, but five turnovers kept the Tigers out of the endzone and Hamilton won the game 14-2. Fayette received the opening kickoff at its 41-yard line and soon progressed to the Lions’ 35 before an offsides penalty moved them back five yards. On the next play, quarterback Langston Strawbridge’s deep pass was intercepted at the Hamilton five-yard line and returned 21 yards to stop the scoring threat.

Traveling to Lynn on Thursday night, Hubbertville closed out its regular season play with a Region 6 matchup against the Bears. Winning the coin toss, the Lions elected to receive the opening kickoff, with T.J. Keeton back deep for the reception. Chance Majors’ kick was recovered at the Bears’ 49-yard line by Jarrett Benton.

The Berry Wildcats faced the Meek Tigers in their last regular season home game. The Wildcats received turnovers from the defense, and touchdowns on special teams and the offense to take control of the game. The Wildcats walked away with a 43–6 victory, and finished undefeated in region play for the first time since 2015.

A Tuscaloosa man has been charged with attempted murder in relation to a shooting that happened at a party in Fayette County last month. Members of the U.S. Marshals’ Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force tracked Ruben Hedgemon, 21, to a location on Ormond Street in Tuscaloosa, and took him into custody on Thursday, Oct. 15. He is accused of firing multiple rounds as he left a party on New Hope Church Road in southern Fayette County during the early morning hours of Saturday, Sept. 26.

Scottie Carl Porter filed a motion in Fayette County Circuit Court on Oct. 8, seeking to nullify Virettia Whiteside’s election on Oct. 6 as the Ward 1 Fayette City Council member. Porter claimed in his complaint that Whiteside was not eligible for the Ward 1 seat due to “misconduct, fraud, or corruption,” and that her residency is not in Ward 1. He claimed that Whiteside’s proper address is in Ward 3, and that she owns a house located in that ward.

A group of local, state and national leaders toured the SHOWA Glove Manufacturing facility in Fayette on Oct. 14 to get a glimpse of the future of world-class glove manufacturing. SHOWA has just completed the outside of a 43,000 square-foot, six story tall building that will house new state-of-the-art equipment for glove manufacturing. The expansion should double or possibly triple the glove manufacturing capacity of the facility, and will add approximately 100 - 170 new jobs to the Fayette economy.

An accident occurring at the intersection of Highway 43/171 and Highway 18 on October 6 left two people injured with possible charges pending from the accident. According to the accident report filed by the Fayette Police Department, a 1999 Chevrolet Silverado, driven by James Edward Watkins of Fayette, was stopped in the inside west-bound lane of Columbus Street East, waiting to make a left turn into the Chevron parking lot. Watkins said that he had signaled his intention to turn.

Berry High School celebrated its homecoming on Friday, Oct. 16 with a parade and a huge 36-13 region win over the Brilliant Tigers.

The Glen Allen town council met on Tuesday, Oct. 6 at the town’s community center. Council members Gail Bircheat and Bobbies S. McCraw were not in attendance for the monthly meeting.

Despite playing at a high intensity level throughout the game, Fayette lost 25-0 to its regional rival, the Gordo Greenwave. Due to an injury to Fayette’s starting quarterback Langston Strawbridge, backup Blake Johnson played the entire game at quarterback for the Tigers.

Homecoming is always an exciting time of year. This year in addition to wanting to win for returning alumni, a win would clinch the region championship for the Wildcats. With that in mind, the Wildcats welcomed the Brilliant Tigers to Fred Webster Stadium. The game was close at the half, but the Wildcats took control of the game in the second half and secured a 23-point victory for Berry.