I beg people to come to a town council meeting.. They are the 1st and 3rd Monday of every month at 6pm. I can tell you from being in the audience.. That the silence is deafening..
Everyone is quick to jump on the council’s back about everything, but no one shows up to the meetings.. Are you even informed about what is in the works, about the financial shape the town is in (actually good compared to others in the area)
What about local business owner’s?? Do you go complain to them about there buildings needing spruced up? Better yet do you even shop local?? or do you run to Brewton or Pace?

I am so sick of everyone blaming the “government” when all you want is a hand out and for the “government” to play mama and daddy.

Our community needs to come together and start caring, stop shopping at Walmart. Start shopping locally as much as they can and business will come to Jay. So quit blaming the council for all the problems when our own citizenery are just as much to blame.

Jay started dying when its own people started shopping elsewhere. That is the plain and simple answer.. We will never be a huge industrial draw again, because we have no rail spur, no interstate, no port.

So with that said, we need to focus on our postives, Ag, Great people, great schools, and a great town to live in.

So with that said, guess we will see you at the next council meeting..

Plus, the Clerk, Kurvin, Ben Jerry, Shon and others were all there standing in the doorway of the polling place when the ticker tape printed out with the results.. They posted them on the glass door of the civic center.
Everyone there knew the count with the exception of the absentee ballots which were in Milton.
So I don’t know what issue was with getting the digital machine to Milton. But these were the numbers from 7:30 last night until Midnight.. they just were known locally and not on the website for the supervisor.