A jump start in farming Elmore County family gets grant for upstart farm Holtville High School basketball coach arrested

By Cliff Williams Staff Writer

By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer

A virtual teacher at Elmore County School’s Edge program has been arrested and charged with school employee distributing obscene material to a student.

Elmore County Sheriff Bill Franklin said Emmanuel Andre Wilson II, 32, of Montgomery turned himself into authorities Tuesday afternoon.

Wilson was the head basketball coach at Holtville High School and was placed on administrative leave Jan. 13 according to Elmore County Schools superintendent Richard Dennis.

and they will ask how many fifth generation or fourth generation, even seventh generation farmers there are,” Pate said. “They are real proud and should be. But nobody ever asks if there are any first generation farmers.” It’s because there are few

“We had a report,” Dennis said. “We had a preliminary investigation and handed it off to the appropriate authorities. He was also placed on administrative leave at that time.” first generation farmers and the barriers to entry are hard. There is finding property for some would-be farmers or finding the capital to start a farming operation. But Pate said there are still

Dennis said school officials follow the same procedure when administrators receive a report of allegations against school staff and employees.

“Once we hand it over, we know very little about what is goingon,”Dennis said.“We cooperate with authorities if necessary.”

Franklin said investigators with the Elmore County Sher iff’s Office have the alleged vic tim’s phone. Authorities collect ed Wilson’s phone as well.

“You could see a conversa tion between the two,” Frank lin said. “Mr. Wilson is going to contend someone had the security code to his phone and he was not responsible. There is other information we can’t disclose now but I don’t think it’s beneficial to Mr. Wilson.”