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GOP addresses court, other issues in Atmore
State Rep. Alan Baker, at left, talks with county school board President Cindy Jackson. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer More than 40 area Republicans, including 13 elected officials and one political hopeful, gathered Monday, April 19, at Atmore City Hall to pledge their support for a move to maintain the current makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court and to hear two state lawmakers discuss the shape of state government under…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Jail officer arrested; SBI probing inmate death
Whiting By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer As Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and Escambia County Sheriff’s Office investigators wrapped up a criminal probe that led to the arrest of a former county jail officer, State Bureau of Investigation agents began looking into the death of an inmate inside the jail. (The two incidents are unrelated.)Sheriff Heath Jackson reported Monday (April 19) the April 16 arrest of 36-year-old Bethany Meagan Whiting…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Green light!
Strand project gets state OK, receives grant By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Although the scheduled start date for The Pride of Atmore’s Strand Theatre-Atmore Hardware Store renovation project has come and gone, organizers are still wearing smiles on their faces.Good news came last week in the announcement by Rural Development Partners (RDP) and Coastal Growers LLC that the two had teamed up to provide a $150,000 grant to help fund…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Griffin to retire, Booth named CEO
Griffin Booth Special to Atmore News The Escambia County Health Care Authority (ECHCA) Wednesday, April 7, the planned retirement of CEO Chris Griffin on June 30, 2021. Griffin joined the ECHCA in 2003 as the chief financial officer for D.W. McMillan Memorial Hospital and subsequently served as the hospital’s chief operating officer prior to being named as McMillan’s hospital administrator in July of 2008. Griffin served as McMillan’s hospital administrator…
by Atmore News access_time3 years ago
Nabbed at Fountain CF with pound of pot, more
Gray By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A Mobile man probably should have read the visitors’ policy for G.K. Fountain Correctional Facility before an April 6 visit to an inmate housed there.Had he done so, the man — 31-year-old Joseph Gray — might not have come onto prison grounds with a pound of marijuana, three kinds of unprescribed pills and potions, more than a dozen cell phones and several cell phone…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago