Month: January 2018

The much-anticipated opening of Brown Precision’s Atmore manufacturing facility is finally on the horizon. An employee who will oversee plant operations during the start-up indicated last week, during the company’s first job fair (held January 25 and 26), that the plant should begin local operations no later than early March. Original projections were that the plant would open in 2017. “We’re getting there; we’re close,” Evan Paulish, one of four…

U.S. Congressman Bradley Byrne got an up-close look last week at one of Alabama’s most successful education initiatives. And he liked what he saw. “I was really impressed with the work going on in their classrooms, but even more impressed by the results,” the congressman posted on his Facebook page after a visit to Rachel Patterson Elementary School. “Pre-K programs make a huge difference in the student’s ultimate achievement level.”…