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Get ready for Covering all of Baldwin County, AL every Friday. partial eclipse PAGE 3 Walk through time at museum The Baldwin Times PAGE 5 AUGUST 18, 2017 | GulfCoastNewsToday.com | 75¢ ‘On time and under budget’ Strange, Moore head Baldwin schools hold ribbon cuttings for 3 new additions for GOP Senate runoff Jones snags Democratic nomination By CLIFF McCOLLUM [email protected] Voters across Alabama headed to the polls Tuesday in a special Sen- ate election, with Democrat Doug Jones winning his party’s nomina- tion outright and the Republican race heading into a runoff between former Alabama Supreme Court Central Baldwin Middle School Chief Justice Roy Moore and sitting Senator Luther Strange. Baldwin County Probate Judge Tim Russell said Baldwin County’s voter turnout was around 18 per- cent, which he said was higher than PHOTO BY CLIFF McCOLLUM most other places around the state, County elections officials tally the votes which was around 10 percent. Tuesday night in Bay Minette in the special “I’m proud that we were so much Senate election. better than the state average,” Rus- sell said. “When you compare 18 those were in the Republican race. to 10, that’s an 80 percent improve- In the GOP race, Baldwin County ment over the state.” residents gave Strange the most 25,929 total ballots were cast in votes, 7,215 to Moore’s 6,792 votes. Baldwin County, and 87 percent of SEE ELECTION, PAGE 6 Elberta Elementary School Elberta police chief back home Below: Elsanor School after horseback riding injury By CLIFF McCOLLUM made base camp and had rented some [email protected] horses, and our intention was to ride them around camp a few days to get Folks from across Baldwin County familiar with the horses. But there was came out last week to the Gulf Shores a delay in getting the horses and some Airport to welcome home Elberta Po- confusion about other different factors, lice Chief Stan DeVane from a Western so we only got to ride them around the vacation that turned into an almost camp one day.” fatal accident and a month’s long stay in Hamby said he, DeVane and George various hospitals. had gone off on an excursion without “I’m happy to be back home in El- the wives and were several miles away berta,” DeVane said, to a sign waving, from the base camp. cheering crowd happy to have him back “We rode for about six hours and in Baldwin County. were around 20 miles away from our DeVane was on the vacation with his base camp,” Hamby said. “I turned PHOTOS BY CLIFF MCCOLLUM wife Debbie, Elberta Mayor Jim Hamby around to take a picture of Stan on his Earlier this week, Baldwin County school officials and community leaders gathered together at and his wife and another friend out in horse, and then Stan said he’d take a Elberta Elementary, Elsanor School and Central Baldwin Middle School to celebrate ribbon cut- Wyoming before the accident occurred. picture of me. I turned back around and tings on new additions to the campuses. Superintendent Eddie Tyler said he was pleased to see “We were at Bob’s Creek in Bridger- then he turned around to take a picture the system’s Pay-As-You-Go construction program succeeding, as evidenced by the new con- Teton National Forest, which is just of George. That’s when I heard Stan struction, and said the system had managed to bring in all of the projects “on time and under south of Yellowstone,” Hamby said. “We SEE DeVANE, PAGE 14 budget.” For the full write-up of these events, visit our website at gulfcoastnewstoday.com. BALDWIN FAST FACTS Baldwin County had the fifth high- Tickets going fast for United Way’s annual kickoff luncheon est number of voters in the state’s By CLIFF McCOLLUM they are going fast. for people. resonate with people.” special Senate election Tuesday [email protected] Marina Simpson, execu- “We feel very blessed to Simpson said tickets are night, with 25,929 voters. Jefferson tive director of the United have Beth come and speak $50 each and can be pur- County had 77,936 voters come out, Fewer than 40 tickets re- Way of Baldwin County, with us about being able to chased online at unitedway- Madison County had 55,420, Mo- main for this year’s United said this year’s event find hope in the midst of bc.org or by calling the bile County had 42,323 and Shelby Way of Baldwin County featuring Beth Holloway, tragedy,” Simpson said. “It United Way at 943-2110. County had 29,001. kickoff luncheon, and mother of Natalie Hollo- will be an amazing speech Source: Alabama Secretary of State’s Office HOLLOWAY United Way officials say way, has been a big draw that we think will definitely SEE KICKOFF, PAGE 6 Deaths Page 26 Suzanne E. Austin Bill Mario Perri Gulf Bertha Ann Benoist Norman Lee Thomas Sr. Coast Ray Willard Gillaspie Ann C. Thorburn Media William Hendrix Patricia Ann Turner VOLUME 127 • ISSUE 14 Kenneth L. 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