“A bill that will designate a section of Hwy. 51 in Lincoln County as “Deputy Donald William Durr Memorial Highway” is headed to the governor.
The section of highway from Lee Drive to Cold Springs Lane will carry the designation. Rep. Becky Currie, R-Brookhaven, authored the legislation that passed unanimously in the Senate this week.
Durr, a former Brookhaven police officer, had been a deputy with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office for four years until his death May 28, 2017, while responding to a domestic call. He and seven other people were fatally wounded that weekend. He was 36….”