By Neto Baptiste Freetown enjoyed the largest margin of victory in the ACB Caribbean Parish League Sir Curtly Ambrose One Day Competition over the weekend when they romped to a 150-runs triumph over Time of Victory Old Road. Batting First, Freetown amassed 191 for six with Cleton Payne getting a…
The Phillips brothers left their home in what is now Beartown State Forest, and moved to Kansas, where they were caught up in that territory’s fierce battle over whether it would become a free or a slave state. BERNARD DREW: The Phillips brothers, of what is now Beartown State Forest, bled in Kansas in 1856
March 12, 2021 By Frank McCormack
On a cold February evening frigid by New Orleans’ standards the mv. Jared Phillips, the newest vessel in Parker Towing Company’s fleet, motored through the Harvey Canal, down the Mississippi River past the city’s French Quarter, and through the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, bound for the Intracoastal Waterway. The 4,200 hp. towboat, built at FMT Shipyard on the Harvey Canal, made its way east to Mobile, Ala., then north to Parker Towing’s headquarters in Tuscaloosa, Ala., where it quickly entered service on the Black Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway (BWT).
The vessel is named for Parker Towing Company’s director of business operations, Jared Phillips, who has been with the company for 10 years. Phillips, a native of Huntsville, Ala., began attending the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in 2002. While in college, he met the former Alison Parker Haun, daughter of Parker Towing V