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Homecoming 2021 By SUSAN KIRKSpecial to Atmore News Escambia County High School’s Homecoming will be October 15. The Blue Devils will play the W.S. Neal Eagles at 7 p.m. at Herbert Barnes Stadium.This year’s theme is “Party Like Back in the Day.”We have many exciting activities planned for the week. Our students will participate in theme days to celebrate the past including “Decades Day” on Thursday.We would like to invite…

Cabaniss Barlow By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Note: This is the second article in a two-part series on how big an effect COVID-19 and its variant are continuing to have on the schools in and around Atmore. This article deals with the middle school and high school levels. Each of four first-year principals at schools in and around Atmore earned their baptism under fire last year, when the COVID-19 pandemic…

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore City Council members approved during their September 27 meeting a $13 million funding package for the upcoming fiscal year, a package that includes an across-the-board pay increase for all city employees except the mayor and council members.“This budget includes a five percent pay raise for all the employees of the city,” said Mayor Jim Staff. “That’s very nice for this year.”As usual, the lion’s…

T-Mobile named Atmore the recipient of a Hometown Grant in the amount of $50,000 to fund an internet technology lab as well as computer furnishings which will be located in the former Atmore Hardware Store. Shown at the check presentation Thursday, September 23, are, from left, Eunice Johnson, Jerome Webster, Eric Eiche, Emilee Craft, Sandy Helton, Jonathan Adams, Tucson Roberts, Foster Kizer, Bub Gideons, Christovia Ramos, Alan Baker, Greg Albritton,…

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks said this week police have identified a “person of interest” in a series of vehicle break-ins that has plagued residents of the city’s southwestern sector over the past few days.“We have established a person of interest and are actively searching for the subject at this time,” Brooks said Monday, September 20.The police chief said the break-ins took place in close…