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New arrivals at the library
Check out the new arrivals at Atmore Public Library. Patrons rate new arrivals Several patrons are sharing their opinions of the new books they’ve read. Five stars is the top rating. Milton Adams: Treason by Stuart Woods – 5 stars Freddie Miller: In the Lion’s Den by Barbara Taylor Bradford – 4 stars Martha Staff: Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano – 3 stars Theresa Lambeth: Hindsight by Iris Johansen –…
by Atmore News access_time4 years ago
A horse parade at ANC
The administration and staff at Atmore Nursing Center are always looking for new ways to engage and entertain their residents – an especially hard task since the facility hasn’t had any visitors since the lockdown began. Someone came up with the idea to have a horse parade and made the proper contacts, so Friday, May 1, riders (on horseback and in wagons) came by the front of the facility –…
by Atmore News access_time4 years ago
PCI buys new Bloodmobile for Red Cross
Special to Atmore News Porch Band of Creek Indians has made its second major donation within a month that is geared to saving local and area lives. Officials of Alabama’s only federally recognized Native American tribe, which recently donated $1 million to Atmore Community Hospital to help with the COVID-19 pandemic, have now announced the purchase of a new Bloodmobile for the American Red Cross. “The American Red Cross is…
by Atmore News access_time4 years ago
Total loss
A track hoe belonging to Lamb’s Dozier Service was gutted April 29 when a fire erupted in its engine compartment. City firefighters were sent at 11:22 a.m. to a location on McRae Street, just outside the city limits, where the construction equipment was ablaze. Because fire engines were subject to bog down in the damp field, the department’s brush truck was used to extinguish the blaze. The track hoe was…
by Atmore News access_time4 years ago
ECHS top students
Escambia County High School principal Amy Cabaniss and counselor Ashley Trawick honored the school’s top ten students with a Facebook announcement and a display at the school. Not the way this is usually done, but it’s an unusual end to the school year. Trawick, left, and Cabaniss, right, are shown putting up the display with the top ten students’ pictures. The top ten are, in order from 1 to 10,…
by Atmore News access_time4 years ago