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Landowner group wants to be annexed
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer The Atmore City Council took care of just one business item, the reappointment of Dr. Hugh Long to the city housing board, during the group’s Monday, March 13, meeting but also heard an update from city attorney Larry Wettermark on the progress of the city’s annexation plan.“He’s been on that housing board since it’s been a housing board,” said Mayor Jim Staff of the local…
by Don Fletcher access_time1 year ago
Best-selling author wraps life lessons around humor
Andy Andrews By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer “Remember, you can’t believe everything you think.”Noted author Andy Andrews, who has written 26 fiction and non-fiction books, used that statement as a theme as he delivered life lessons cloaked in humor to the March 9 gathering of United Bank’s Joint Advisory Committee members and their guests at Wind Creek’s main conference room.Andrews’s books contain a hodgepodge of stories about the choices individuals…
by Don Fletcher access_time1 year ago
Atmore men turned down for parole
Thomas McCants By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Two Atmore men were denied parole during recent hearings before the Alabama Board of Pardons and Parole.Lasherman L. Thomas, 37, was considered for and denied parole by the ABPP on March 1.He has been in prison since April 9, 2005, a span of 15 years, 7 months and 19 days — including more than 3 years in the county jail while awaiting trial…
by Don Fletcher access_time1 year ago
Kidnap, assault charges filed after threat to kill girlfriend
Jenkins By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore police recently announced the March 2 arrest of an Atmore man accused of cutting his girlfriend with a knife and threatening to kill her if she tried to leave his residence.APD Sgt. Darrell McMann said a woman came to the Atmore Police Department around 8:20 a.m. that day and reported that her boyfriend, 27-year-old Desha Jenkins, cut her with a knife during a…
by Don Fletcher access_time1 year ago
Gov. Ivey announces broadband grant for SW Escambia, NW Baldwin
Special to Atmore News Gov. Kay Ivey announced last week that she has awarded nine grants, totaling nearly $25 million, to expand broadband services throughout Alabama, including more than $4 million for parts of rural Baldwin and Escambia counties.The grant package included $4.05 million to Mediacom for providing broadband service connectivity for 1,756 households, businesses and community anchors in northwest Baldwin County and southwest Escambia County, between Bay Minette and…
by Atmore News access_time1 year ago