The Tuskegee News

01/22/2025

Stay off the roads unless it is an actual emergency. Too any wrecks and Too many stranded.

10/09/2024

Change to mayor/council from manager/ council passed 457 to 237. Effective in November 2025

09/30/2024

The Macon County Water Authority will have water for distribution at its office today
Macon County EMA / DHS

04/17/2024

Political newcomer Elise Tolbert defeated incumbent Ernest Magruder in a runoff on Tuesday, April 16, to claim the District 3 seat on the Macon County Commission.

Tolbert led Magruder and two other candidates in the March 5 primary, but didn’t have enough votes to get to 50 percent-plus one to avoid a runoff.

In Tuesday’s runoff, Tolbert picked up 63.14 percent with 495 votes to Magruder’s 289 votes, good for 36.86 percent. The district consists of three voting sites out of 16 in the county.

In the District 3 race Primary, Tolbert led the field of four candidates with 506 votes (45.96 percent). Magruder had 306 votes (27.79 percent) to make the runoff. Former District 3 Commissioner Drew Thompson finished with 172 votes (15.62 percent) and Jimmy Williams totaled 117 votes (10.63 percent).



Magruder served terms on two different times, the most recent when he was elected in 2020.

Tolbert, a Tuskegee native, has no opposition in the November General Election and will take office in January of 2025.

In runoffs for the Democratic and Republican nominations for the newly-drawn minor District 2 Congressional District in Alabama, Anthony Daniels received 1,238 votes to 895 for Shamori Figures in Macon County in the Democratic runoff.

On the Republican side, Caroleene Dobson had 78 votes to 75 for Dick Brewbaker in Macon County.

However, the Associated Press predicted the Democratic nomination going to Figures with 14,649 votes (58 percent) to 10,748 for Daniels.

On the Republican side, Dobson had recorded 56 percent with 11, 925 to 9,268 votes for Brewbaker as of 9 :30 p.m. Tuesday night.

Figures and Dobson will meet in the November General Election for the Congressional seat.

03/06/2024

Incumbents dominated local Democratic Primary races in Macon County on Tuesday, March 5.

Earning reelection were incumbent Probate Judge James Cooper, Macon County Commission Chairman Louis Maxwell and Macon County District 1 Commissioner Miles Robinson.

There will be a runoff on April 16 between incumbent Ernest Magruder and challenger Elise Tolbert for the District 3 Macon County Commission seat.

Judge Cooper totaled 1,919 votes (59.88 percent) to 1,286 votes (40.1 percent) for Tracey Moon in a rematch of their race six years ago when Cooper defeated Moon by about 30 votes. Cooper was elected to his second six-year term with no Republican opposition in the November General election.

Maxwell was elected to his fifth term by winning 53.54 percent of the vote with 1,681 votes. Michael Hammon picked up 679 votes for 21.6 percent while Angela Hamilton totaled 474 votes (15.1 percent) and Andrew Daren 306 votes (9.75 percent).

Robinson was chosen for his eighth term. He collected 343 votes (57.55 percent) to 253 votes (42.45 percent) for Rev. Joshua A. Lewis.

In the District 3 race, first-time candidate Tolbert led the field of four candidates with 354 votes (41.454 percent. Incumbent Magruder had 244 votes (28.57 percent) to make the runoff. Former District 3 Commissioner Drew Thompson finished with 144 votes (16.86 percent) and Jimmy Williams totaled 112 votes (13.11 percent.)

Full Macon County election results and comments from the candidates will be published in the March 14 edition of The Tuskegee News.

03/05/2024

We'll have the basic results of the voting tonight here on FB. More detailed results will come in next week's paper.

01/15/2024

https://www.al.com/news/2024/01/how-many-faucets-should-i-leave-dripping-to-prevent-pipes-from-freezing.html

How many pipes should you leave dripping and which faucets should you turn on?

01/01/2024

Happy New Year everyone!