Mystics du Mayhem is bringing you Dothan’s Halloween Costume Party of the Year, featuring The Velcro Pygmies live at The Plant on October 25th!
Dress to impress in your best costume, bring your friends, and get ready for a night full of music, dancing, and mayhem!
This is more than just a party – it’s a fundraiser! A portion of proceeds will benefit the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 27 and we’ll also be collecting food donations for the Wiregrass Area Food Bank.
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DOTHAN: Before I get into “what”, I must first acknowledge “who”.
Today in a regular Dothan City Commission Meeting, the “current” Mayor and Dothan Associate Commissioners, along with Dothan City Manager Randy Morris moved Dothan Police Department years and years ahead.
So first, THANK YOU to Dothan Mayor Mark Saliba, Associate Commissioners D1 Kevin Dorsey, D-2 Aristotle Kirkland, D-3 Bradley Bedwell, D-4 John Ferguson, D-5 Gantt Pierce, D-6 David Crutchfield, Dothan City Manager Randy Morris and ground laid out.
Today Dothan Mayor and Associate Commissioners committed to a huge 27 million dollar investiment over the next 10 years in technology, in crime fighting. This technology will include car cameras, body camera, drones, anti drones, equipment designed to de-escalate situations without the use of deadly physical force.
This investment in the safety of the citizens and guests of Dothan Alabama, will help protect each and every citizen with intelligence data and information to be provided to the men and women of the Dothan Police Department.
This has been in the works for well over a year by Dothan Police Chief Will Benny, Major Will Glover, Captain Thomas Davis, Captain Jason Penn, Captain Lynn Watkins, and Captain Rachel David. The command team, combined with men and women throughout the department, along with the Mayor and Associate Commissioners, have taken trips and visited other real time crime centers.
These centers use the latest technology, Ai Tools, other technological tools and advancements, to help law enforcement commanders make intelligent decisions when combatting crime.
This endeavor and money paid enables Dothan’s equipment to be upgraded as advancements are made. And this allows crime to be solved or prevented before it happens. And it helps make sure the men and women in service of protection of the citizens and guests get to go home each and every night.
You know United State President Donald Trump was ambushed by a coward on a rooftop at a distance. This past week Charlie Kirk was ambushed by a coward on a rooftop at a distance. Today, September 16, 2025 an Edgewater Florida off duty police officer, David Jewell, was purchasing a hot dog as a gas station. An employee left the building, reentered with a gun and repeatedly shot the police officer from behind. A cold blooded assination by a coward. There were 10 – 15 rounds fired into the police officer.
While this real time crime center will not prevent all crime, what it will do is give the law enforcement professionals the tools to combat crime, at times know about crime before it happens and prevent death and destructions, thefts and robberies. And to solve these crimes quickly.
There is a lot that I do not know about the real time crime center. But what I do know, under the forward thinking of Dothan Police Chief Will Benny, his command staff of Major Will Glover, Captain Thomas Davis, Captain Jason Penn, Captain Lynn Watkins, Captain Rachel David, and the full 100% support of Dothan Mayor Mark Saliba, D-1 Kevin Dorsey, D-2 Aristotle Kirkland, D-3 Bradley Bedwell, D-4 John Ferguson, D-5 Gantt Pierce, D-6 David Crutchfield, City Manager Randy Morris … a HUGE PUBLIC SAFETY INVESTMENT AND MOVE was made today.
STEERS & BULLS (MEDIUM & LARGE 1 & 2 )
150-300 Lbs. up to 615.00
300-400 Lbs. up to 525.00
400-500 Lbs. up to 460.00
500-600 Lbs. up to 420.00
600-700 Lbs. up to 350.00
700-800 Lbs. up to 320.00
HEIFERS (MEDIUM & LARGE 1 & 2)
150-300 Lbs. up to 600.00
300-400 Lbs. up to 490.00
400-500 Lbs. up to 460.00
500-600 Lbs. up to 368.00
600-700 Lbs. up to 343.00
700-800 Lbs. up to 290.00
SLAUGHTER CLASSES
COWS
High Dressing up to 176.00
Breakers up to 175.00
Lean up to 172.00
Bulls up to 206.00
Replacement Classes
Bred Cows 3,950.00
Cow Calf pairs 4,950.00
Slaughter classes steady to 4 lower. Replacement bred cows and pairs sharply higher on the better kind. Calves and feeder cattle steady to very firm with some heifers 10 to 20 dollars higher! Our market sure looks good !! Fed cattle in the West a little lower@ 237 to 240 with Iowa auctions to 250.
Well Folks, Thanks to each and every one of you, our friends and customers both buyers and sellers, we are starting our 32 nd year!!! We thank each and every one of you for making this possible. We look forward to serving you another year !!!
Thank you all for your business and friendship !! And remember, we are not here just to sell your cattle, we are here to do what ever it takes to get every penny we can for your cattle.
COWARTS – HOUSTON COUNTY: 07:33 AM Houston County Sheriff 911 dispatched a motor vehicle accident at 1560 Sanitary Dairy Road in Cowarts.
Responding to the scene, Ashford Rescue, Cowarts Volunteer FIre, Houston County Sheriff Deputies and ALEA – Troopers.
Reports a two vehicle accdient, vehicle verses a trailer.
On arrival of emergency units it appears one person was injured. Ashford Rescue checked the patient and transported, non emergency, to a Dothan hospital.
ALEA – Troopers are in charge of the accident investigation.
A vote for Ashley Davis tomorrow is a vote for Dothan! Not her, me or anyone else. Please vote Tuesday!
It would be easy to neglect importance of voting tomorrow, after so many months of noise. I get it.
I also know it’s easy to neglect voting for anything Dothan City Schools because we’ve been so many decades with issue.
Please know this vote will not benefit any individual that is asking you for it. This vote is for Dothan. This vote removes your schools and tax dollars from control of the establishment. The establishment of people that seek financial benefit over our teachers and children.
Please recognize those people and the amount of money they are using to stop our effort. That tells you everything you need to know about what’s going on. Make a mental note of who they are and remember it.
How many of them have even mentioned our schools in the last 4 years? I will tell you that none of them have ever reached out to me, and I have been the school board chairman! So where do they get their opinion from?
Why are they against us? It’s about control, it’s about money, it’s about continuing the status quo that benefits them while our schools and this town continue to suffer.
Wait, are you not supposed to actually call that out in Dothan?!!!!
You see it throughout this country. I didn’t think it happened here until I got on the school board. Now I know better than all of you! This place must be cleaned up. Everyone will take a loss if we become Montgomery. We must care about DCS.
If you’ve had someone tell you that I’m the problem, have you ever reached out to me? No blame, I know it’s easy to believe their narrative. Did you ask them if they reached out to me? They didn’t. I’ve been amazed at how much slandering discusion goes on behind my back.
Many people tell me thank you for hanging in there against all this. And I tell them that I don’t care about me or any of that, it’s just an effort to get us where Dothan needs to be. But I can’t think of a single time where someone came directly to me for an opposition discussion. That crowd prefers to manipulatebehind the scenes.
I clearly don’t need anything this position offers. I don’t need a public persona to better my income or family. All of this only takes away. I wasn’t created with an imbalance of selfish ambition, and I would rather serve others with any blessings I have. I will not honor myself in saying this, but if more people with this quality would choose to lead, we could fix so much of the political garbage that plagues us.
If Ashley does not win tomorrow my current state of mine is likely to resign (I’d rather be selfish than loose to a board majority for 4 more years) and take my fight to a higher level of service. Could being Mayor of Dothan be a better position for fixing this?
Twenty-five years of Dothan City School students and most of the current DCS faculty could propel a wave of momentum for us to go anywhere that real change could happen!
Mostly, that was just a statement for the establishment crowd to leave us alone, or recognize that we could become a bigger threat to them later. I would sure rather stay in the position I was called to be in.
Back to Ashley, the real answer for us!…
Ashley Davis has four kids currently in this system. She has spent over $30,000 of her own money, for this position and $277 a month. She has no aspirations of upward mobility into the political ranks which is why the establishment has not been able to leach onto her.
Her biggest supporters are board members BoardChair Childers, Amy Hunter Bonds(outgoing), Aurie Bailey Jenkins, and Julie Mullins-Turner (plus a massive crowd of teachers and staff).
If you support us with this vote tomorrow, I encourage you to hold us individually accountable to the future of Dothan City Schools. We will humbly accept that. Because we know that every decision will be for Dothan, its teachers, and our students. That will always make us immune from “real” public scrutiny.
Tomorrow. A big day for Dothan City Schools, and an even bigger day for The City of Dothan.
For the last time…Fix your school board and fix Dothan!
