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Focus groups for City of Dothan: one scheduled today, check other dates
Community Input Needed: Join a Focus Group! The City of Dothan is seeking input from non-profits and community stakeholders for the 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan & Annual Action Plan! Your feedback will help shape housing and community development investments for the next five years.
We’re hosting focus groups on key topics—join us and make your voice heard!
FOCUS GROUP SCHEDULE:
Children & Youth
Hawk-Houston Youth Enrichment Center (329 Chickasaw, Dothan)
Monday, March 3, 2025 | 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Basic Needs & Employment Alfred Saliba Family Services Center (301 E. Lafayette, Dothan) Tuesday, March 4, 2025 | 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Health & Social Services, Elderly Houston-Henry Co. Assoc. of Service Agencies (1001 Montana, Dothan)
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Housing & Homelessness SEACH, Dothan Housing Authority (1001 Montana, Dothan) Thursday, March 6, 2025 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Meeting for Social Service Agencies & Organizations – General Community Development Discussion Dothan Civic Center (126 N St. Andrews St., Dothan) Friday, March 7, 2025 | 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Can’t attend? Share your input by completing our survey:
For questions or more information, contact:
Kelly H. Mierkowski – CDBG Program Administrator/Title VI Coordinator
kmierkowsk@dothan.org | 
334-615-4417Your voice matters—help shape the future of Dothan!
UPDATED @ 11:49 : 11:30: Outdoor fire reported on Drew Road; now under controll
Dothan Fire is responding to a report of an outdoor fire on 694 Drew Road.
The fire is reported to be about 100 feet from a home. Horse stables and wooden fencing are reported to be burning.
The fire is now under control.
Text Message Leads to Drug Arrest in Holmes County
HOLMES COUNTY, Fla. (Feb. 28, 2025) – A Holmes County man unintentionally set himself up for an arrest after sending a text message that led deputies straight to illegal drugs.
Deputies with the Holmes County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call for service regarding a subject needing to be removed and trespassed from a residence. While on scene, the homeowner received a text from the suspect, Christopher Newton, helpfully informing them that he had “left a baggie on the nightstand.”
With consent to search the room where Newton had been staying, deputies located a plastic bag containing a substance that tested positive for cocaine.
As a result, Newton was placed under arrest and charged with possession of cocaine.
Let this be a lesson—if you’re going to leave something behind, maybe don’t text about it!
UPDATED @ 9:23 PM 6:47 PM Pedestrian Struck By Vehicle – Hwy. 431 and Bethel Road – Kinsey
KINSEY: 6:24 PM Houston County 911 dispatched Kinsey Volunteer Fire Department, Headland Fire – Rescue, Kinsey Police Department, and Houston County Sheriff Deputies to a motor vehicle accident.
The loaction was Highway 431 at Bethel Road. The accident is in the southbound lanes of traffic.
The accident involves a motor vehicle and a pedestrian. There are critical injuries.
RSN will update.
UPDATED @ 9:23 PM
This was a fatality on the scene. The deceased was riding a bicycle and was struck by a pickup truck. The truck did not stop. Someone got the tag number and the vehicle was located in Henry County.
RSN has received text messages asking if someone was struck on a bicycle. The person on TEXT RICKEY 334-790-1729 said it was difficult to see. UNCONFIRMED, but souces say the person who was driving the truck knew that struck something but did not know it was a person or vehicle. Thought something on edge of road. It was dark when the accident happened.
Dothan Police CRASH TEAM assisted Kinsey Police in the investigation along with Columbia Police and Webb Police as did Houston County Sheriff Department.
Houston County Deputy Coroner Tony Diaz, who also works for Blue Skies Transport, answered the Coroner call for Houston County Coroner Robert Byrd. Diaz is also on contract for transporting the bodies.
Kinsey Police continues the investigation.
2:13 PM: Wreck on South Oates near Taco Bell
Dothan Fire is responding to a wreck in the 3200 block of South Oates Street, near Taco Bell.
The wreck is reported to be between a truck and a mustang, with one vehicle in a ditch. Initial reports indicate airbag deployment and one vehicle smoking.
Initial reports said one person was laying on the side of the road.
On-scene units reported moderate damage to one vehicle and minor damage to the other.