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EA wins, 27-7
Cougars avenges last year’s season-opening setback EA’s Sam Fields catches a pass during Friday’s game against Presbyterian Christian School. By JOSH FRYE News Sportswriter After falling in overtime last season to Presbyterian Christian School, Escambia Academy started out the 2020 season on a high note with a commanding, 27-7 victory over the Mississippi team. The Cougars opened the scoring as Daughtry McGhee and Landon Sims pushed downfield with a series…
The football section
We started publishing Atmore News in June 2005. I haven’t looked back at our first-year editions, but I’m sure we did a football section that fall. With this edition, that makes 15 football sections. Every year, the section has been a pretty easy one to work on. We talk to the coaches, band directors and cheerleader sponsors / coaches. Usually, well before the season starts, everything is in place at…
by Sherry Digmon
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BOE approves personnel recommendations
News Staff Report The Escambia County Board of Education met twice last week, once in regular session Tuesday, August 18, and in a called session Friday, August 21, with only one agenda item in the latter meeting. The following personnel recommendations by Superintendent John Knott were approved by the board. Tuesday, August 18 Leave of absence 1. Sabrina Dailey, 6-hour lunchroom worker, Rachel Patterson Elementary School, effective August 7, 2020…
by Atmore News
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Noted escapee, other convicted killer denied parole
Armitage Wigham By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Two convicted killers serving life sentences, including one who gained national attention when he and seven fellow inmates escaped more than 40 years ago from a maximum-security prison near Atmore, were denied parole after recent hearings by the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles. Gerald William Armitage, born in 1954, has served 44-1/2 years of a life sentence imposed for a 1975…
by Don Fletcher
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Public safety personnel not immune to COVID-19
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore police and firefighters take all kinds of precautions to avoid contracting COVID-19. They wear top-notch personal protective gear and they are warned in advance that they are being sent to a location where COVID-19 has been — and still may be — present. Still, the public safety officers are not immune to the novel coronavirus, which has been confirmed in more than 1,000…
by Don Fletcher
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