2011 In Photos: June

December 30, 2011

All this week, we are looking back at the photos that were in the news in 2011. Today, we are featuring photos from June.

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Hundreds of North Escambia area students graduated in June. Pictured above: Valedictorian Sarah Killam addresses the Northview High School Class of 2011.

Poplar Dell Baptist Church celebrated its 100th anniversary with the opening of a time capsule that had been hidden away for 50 years.

Temperatures topped the 100 degree mark in early June.

A mobile home in Bratt was sliced in half by a falling limb.

A pedestrian from McDavid died when he was struck by two semi-trucks hauling logs on Highway 29 in Bluff Springs.

A massive wildfire scotched over 1,500 acres north of Flomaton

Fire destroyed the media center at Pollard McCall School, just north of the Alabama/Florida line.

A farmer’s John Deere tractor and a Walnut Hill Water Works tower are dwarfed by a massive storm cloud west of Walnut Hill in mid June.

Low water levels from drought led to the discovery of an 1800’s era steamboat in the Escambia River near McDavid.

Drought led to near-historic lows on the Escambia River, including at the Molino Boat Ramp on Fairgrounds Road.

A major archaeological dig is underway near the Escambia River in Molino unearthed evidence of a 1740’s Spanish mission along with artifacts believed to be 6,000 years old.

Six people were involved in this two vehicle crash at Molino Road at Highway 29.

A Geraldine, Alabama, man died in this wreck at Fountain Prison in Atmore.

A participant is hit by a water balloon during an Escambia County Extension Service Water Camp at Lake Stone.

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