Atmore News

JUB asks: Are you ready to rock?
Special to Atmore News Prepare the stage floor, fog machine, laser lights and sound equipment – J. U. Blacksher High School is one week away from hosting a hair-raising concert! The 80s cover band The Velcro Pygmies perform at the school’s Dawg Jam ’18 concert on Wednesday, Dec. 12, at 1 p.m. in the school’s gym. The band is a partner of Reach and Teach, a teaching curriculum that centers…
USPS offers personalized Santa letters
Special to Atmore News WASHINGTON – Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus – and the U.S. Postal Service can help you prove it when Santa replies to your child’s letter – complete with a North Pole postmark. Here are the steps for your child to get a letter back from Santa: 1. Have your child write a letter to Santa and place it in an envelope addressed to: Santa…
Down the home stretch
Some of the greatest sporting events in history have come down to the wire. Those bottom of the ninth, fourth and inches, double overtime plays are what stand out in our memories as the greatest successes or the worst defeats in sports history. Similarly, we here in Washington are entering our own home stretch of the 115th Congress. It has been a long year filled with many victories for the…
Apparently impaired jaywalker could be charged
News Staff Report Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks reported Monday, December 3, that a pedestrian, who was apparently under the influence of some intoxicant when he was struck Saturday by a vehicle, could face charges in connection with the incident. According to a press release issued Monday by the police chief, patrol officers were dispatched around 8:27 p.m. to the pedestrian vs. motor vehicle crash, which occurred at the intersection…
Silver Sneakers, Child Watch, other Y programs will continue
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer The November 30 closing of Atmore Area YMCA won’t mean that all the programs formerly offered by the local nonprofit will come to an end. An official of Health Actions Physical Therapy — which already operates facilities in Jackson, Dothan, Troy and Daphne — said during a Monday, December 3, public announcement that in January the company would formally add Atmore to its list…