Colbert wants jail work to start this year

TUSCUMBIA — Colbert County officials said they’re still hoping to be ready to solicit bids for a new justice center by June or July, and start construction by the end of the calendar year. Beginning in June 2021, the commission began purchasing property on the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Muscle Shoals Reservation. It purchased a nearly 400-foot long, concrete laboratory building and adjoining five-story office building. It purchased an old infirmary that will become the new location for the Colbert County Emergency Management Agency. The commission hired the Florence architectural firm Lambert Durham Ezell to develop plans for the new jail…