Day: April 4, 2018

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Thanks for your help
To the editor: The March 24 benefit for Jerry Searcy was a big success. The family would like to thank the cooks, everybody who volunteered to help, and the businesses and people who donated the items that were auctioned and raffled off. We would also like to thank all of those who came out and showed their love and support, plus a big thank you to Ricky Crook & Horseshoe…
by Submitted Article access_time6 years ago
Celebrate National Arbor Day by planting trees – Receive 10 Free Shade trees
National Arbor Day is Friday, April 27, this year, and the Arbor Day Foundation is making it easy for anyone to celebrate the annual tree-planting holiday. Join the Foundation in April and receive 10 free shade trees. By joining the Foundation in April, new members receive the following trees: red oak, sugar maple, weeping willow, baldcypress, thornless honeylocust, pin oak, river birch, tuliptree, silver maple, and red maple. The free…
by Submitted Article access_time6 years ago
Deer causes 6 cars to hit I-65 guardrail
A deer that was trying to cross Interstate 65 in the predawn hours of March 30 triggered a bizarre incident during which a vehicle struck a guardrail, tore it loose and sent it across two lanes of traffic, where five other vehicles ran over or struck the twisted piece of metal. According to Alabama State Trooper reports, the chain of relatively minor accidents started around 5:48 a.m. when 79-year-old William…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Hydroplane
Two local men were taken by ambulance to Atmore Community Hospital after a March 29 single-vehicle crash on Northgate Drive. Alabama State Trooper reports show that Tykentrenton Kadeem Grubbs, 27, of Atmore was eastbound in a 1996 Ford Crown Victoria when “the vehicle entered into a critical speed yaw while running off of the roadway.” The car struck a water main, a telephone junction box and several trees, injuring Grubbs…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago
Atmore man injured in fatal boat collision
A popular Pace, Fla. bass fisherman was killed, a Semmes man was seriously injured, and an Atmore man escaped with only minor injuries after two bass boats collided March 31 during a fishing tournament on the Tensaw River in Baldwin County. According to a press release issued by Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, a bass boat operated by Wesley Scott Feely of Atmore struck the side of a bass boat operated…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago