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ECHS students share $184K in A&M scholarships
Recipients of Alabama A&M scholarships with Principal Kike Pettaway, from left, front, Isabella McGee, Kike Pettaway, Summayah Tolbert; back, Marquise Kirk, Lexi Peavy, Judah Dennis, Daniel Gunaca, Jayla Bullard, Timia Gaines, Darron Nichols. Not pictured are Tykeria Lambert and Breona Gaines By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Escambia County High School officials announced this week that 11 ECHS students have earned a collective $184,000 in scholarships to attend Alabama A&M University.“Isn’t…
COVID-19 lab leak
Congressman Jerry Carl Over the weekend, the mainstream media began reporting on what we’ve all known for a while: COVID-19 likely originated in a lab in China. For over two years, so many of us have been saying the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) actively and purposely deceived the world about the origins of COVID since day one.To make matters even worse, our own government officials lied to us about the…
They were soldiers once … and young
By BONNIE BARTEL LATINO In last week’s Atmore News I wrote about US Army SP5 Rayford Gohagin, who was my classmate at Escambia County High School and who was killed in Vietnam on May 13, 1969. I mentioned two other young men, who were only a year or two younger than the students in Rayford’s and my class and who also died in Vietnam. They were Larry Gonzales and Allen…
Professor with Atmore ties pens debut novel
Rozelle autographs a copy of his book for Don Noble, host of Bookmark By BONNIE BARTEL LATINOSpecial to Atmore News Professor Lee Rozelle has published his first novel, The Battle of Jasmine Wills.A professor of literature at the University of Montevallo, Alabama’s only liberal arts college, Rozelle describes his debut novel as, “A wild and heartfelt tale of abduction and revenge, body shaming, and media fame.” Montag Press published this…