October 2018 - Page 8 of 19

Don Fletcher

No land for hospital

Lack of motion kills land donation… for now By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer At the Monday, October 22, Atmore City Council meeting, council members didn’t turn down the proposed donation of 10 acres of prime Rivercane real estate for location of a new hospital. Neither did they vote for the measure. Instead, the four council members present refused to introduce a motion to transfer the land to the Atmore…

Community calender for the week of October 21

Escambia County Middle School will hold the annual Light on Afterschool Program Thursday, October 25, 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. This year’s focus will be the “A” in A-STEM. Registration will be held for the program during this event. For more information, contact Marcia Adams or Melissa Daniel, 368-9105. There will be a BENEFIT for AUTUMN HASTING (five years old)– stage three aggressive melanoma Cancer patient Saturday, October 27 at…

Obituaries for the week of October 21,2018

Robert Haskew Middleton Mr. Robert Haskew Middleton, Sr., age 97, of Atmore, Ala., passed away Tuesday, October 16, 2018 in Fairhope, Ala. He was a retired salesmen. He was born in Pineapple, Ala. to the late James Lambert and Phenie Owens Middleton. He served in the U. S. Army as a WWII Veteran and was member of the American Legion Post 90 in Atmore giving seventy-five Years of Service.…

Oberkirch named FNB&T Sr. VP and COO

Special to Atmore News Atmore, Ala. – The Board of Directors of First Suncoast Trust Bancshares, Inc. and subsidiary bank, First National Bank & Trust, have named Paul Oberkirch a Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. FNB&T President and CEO Glen Davis said, “I am pleased that Paul has joined FNB&T. He will be a valuable asset to our bank and management team. With his twenty years of…

Water infrastructure vital to Alabama’s economy

There are very few places in the United States that can boast the sort of diverse infrastructure we have here in Alabama. There are 11 interstates, over 3,000 miles of freight rail, five commercial airports, and more than 132,000 miles of rivers and stream channels in our state. One of our state’s most important pieces of infrastructure is the Port of Mobile, the 10th largest port and fastest growing container…