Month: September 2017

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Watch out for sharks (and vending machines)
By Harvey H. (“Hardy”) Jackson Earlier this summer I was standing in waist deep warm Gulf water, June weed gone and it was so clear I could count my toes, when this big guy wades out to me and asks, “Ever see any sharks?” Now there is a certain beach protocol that says that grown men don’t just wade out to other grown men in waist deep water unless they…
by Submitted Article access_time7 years ago
Inside the Statehouse
 By Steve Flowers The very interesting and entertaining Republican Primary for our open U.S. Senate seat culminates this Tuesday with the clash between two Titans. Judge Roy Moore and Big Luther Strange will be in a Titanic battle to fill the seat left vacant when Jeff Sessions became U.S. Attorney General. We will see if Moses with his Ten Commandments and Hebrew children of rural Alabama can slay the Philistine…
by Submitted Article access_time7 years ago
Fires indirect result of power outage – Motorist apparently clipped pole after falling asleep at the wheel
Official reports indicate that a freak traffic accident was the indirect cause of both a fatal blaze that ravaged a Carver Avenue home early September 12 and claimed the life of a 65-year-old woman who lived there, and another fire that destroyed a mobile home just a few hours earlier on Old Ship Circle. Fire officials have determined that candles left unattended in the mobile home were the catalyst for…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Taste of the South is Thursday
Local and area residents are invited to come out to Heritage Park this week for a taste of what local cooking is all about. The 14th annual Taste of the South cooking competition, a showcase of local culinary talent that is noted statewide, will take place Thursday, September 21, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The community event, hosted for the fourth straight year by Atmore Area Chamber of Commerce, will…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Obituaries for the week of August 30, 2017
Jason Edward Reid Mr. Jason Reid, age 45, passed away Tuesday, August 15, 2017. He was born in Garland, Texas to Charles and Christine Reid. The family moved to Pelham, Alabama in 1986 and Jason graduated from Pelham High School in 1990. He graduated from Auburn University in 1996. He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Edgar Hugh and Estelle Reid; Thomas and Louise Folmar and his father Charles…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago