Brewton, Alabama

• Police department to take back drugs
  

  Posted on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 at 3:15 pm. Brewton area residents have the chance to dispose of prescription drugs safely under a nationwide program in which the city is participating.

• House burns twice
  

  Posted on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 at 2:40 pm. Members of the Brewton Fire Department returned to the scene of an early morning fire this afternoon.

• Subject of manhunt captured
  

  Posted on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 at 4:47 pm. Law enforcement officials have captured the man that was the subject of an area manhunt early Wednesday.

• Groups partner on community center project
  

  Posted on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 at 11:27 pm. A neighborhood committee has joined with the Coalition for a Healthier Escambia County in hopes of transforming the current Brewton Middle School into a community center once the building is vacated.

• Area children Punt, Pass and Kick
  

  Posted on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 at 11:22 pm. The 2010 Punt, Pass, and Kick was held Saturday in Brewton at T.R. Miller with 26 area children participating in the event.

• New assistant joins NES
  

  Posted on Saturday, August 28th, 2010 at 3:08 am. Students at W.S. Neal Elementary School are seeing a new face around campus.

• Pair charged in lumber theft
  

  Posted on Saturday, August 28th, 2010 at 3:13 am. A Brewton couple has been arrested on theft charges in connection with missing lumber from the construction site of a walkway being constructed near Oa Bannon Park.

• T.R. Miller gets new principal to replace the late Donnie Rotch
  

  The Brewton City Board of Education has named Mary Bell as principal T.R. Miller High School, replacing Donnie Rotch, who was killed in a car wreck on Aug.

• Former officer pleads not guilty
  

  Posted on Thursday, August 26th, 2010 at 3:05 pm. A former East Brewton police officer charged in connection with the theft of drugs from Freda s pharmacy has pleaded not guilty.

• Alabama news links: Former Faulkner student ordered into military after Facebook post
  

  News from around the state: The Opelika Auburn-News reports Auburn is looking for a new chief instructor for its flight management program.

• Bonner: Healthcare a 'challenge' at best
  

  Posted on Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 at 4:29 pm. With topics including everything from the economy and joblessness to religion, U.S. Rep.

• School enrollment a moving target
  

  Posted on Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 at 10:25 pm. Superintendents for Brewton City Schools and Escambia County Schools are busy compiling records on the number of students attending classes at area schools for the 2010-2011 school year.

• Bell named T.R. Miller principal
  

  Posted on Monday, August 23rd, 2010 at 6:53 pm. The Brewton City Board of Education on Monday voted to name Mary Bell principal at T.R. Miller High School.

• EDITORIAL: Infant mortality a measure of Alabama's decency
  

  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. _ At long, long last, Alabama's infant mortality rate has been cut to its lowest level in more than 100 years.

• County student numbers fluctuate
  

  Posted on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 at 6:24 pm. The number of students being served in the Escambia County School system is up and down, keeping administrators on their toes during the first weeks of school.

• Brewton, AL, Chained, starving dog chews off half foot and leg to escape torturous existence
  

  In theA early morningA hours of August 19, 2010, a severely emaciated 2 year oldA German Shepherd Dog , bleeding profusely from her hind foot and leg, was found in the "drop box" of the Humane Society of Escambia County , Brewton, Alabama.

• Art auction draws crowd
  

  Posted on Saturday, August 21st, 2010 at 4:00 am. When Dauphin Island Sea Lab Foundation director Helene Hassell learned that word of an art auction to benefit the foundation had spread to California, she was expecting success.

• New doctor finds home
  

  A new doctor will soon join the ranks at Brewton Medical Center - and she will set up her practice in a new office space dedicated to pediatrics.

• Police Chase Ends With High School Principal Dead
  

  The principal of T.R. Miller High School in Brewton was killed Wednesday night when the car he was driving was struck by another auto involved in a police chase.

City Description

Brewton is a city in Escambia County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 5,498. The city is the county seat of Escambia County. Brewton as a city is young in years, yet its region has been touched by many hallmarks of modern American history. Its hinterland was long the home to a variety of native American societies, while mid-16th century Spanish explorers Hernando de Soto and Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano marched their forces nearby. Through the centuries a huge forest of virgin yellow pine filled millions of available acres. Brewton's American origins began with the Treaty of Paris of 1783, which established the boundaries of the new United States, made Florida a Spanish territory, and confirmed what became Mississippi and Alabama which was created as a homeland for Upper and Lower Creeks, Choctaw, Cherokees and other tribes. Into the 1790s land hungry Georgia settlers sought new lands, pressing into tempting agricultural sites near the future Brewton. The Creeks and others resisted, and their chief, Alexander McGillivray, sought aid from the recently elected American President George Washington. The United States attempted to help, but it could not

City Contained By:

• Escambia County
• Alabama
• United States of America

City Contains:

• Brewton Historic Commercial District
• Jefferson Davis Community College

Timezones:

• Central Time zone

Size:

• 29.5258644578 km squared

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