Atmore News

Food scores released
The following Escambia County food / lodging establishment ratings were released by the Alabama Department of Public Health for February. Ratings are ranked by score, low to high. FSE = Food Service Establishment Alabama Wing House, Atmore, 83, FSE Subway #27718, Jack Springs Road, Atmore, 87, FSE Church’s Chicken (B), Brewton, 89, FSE Subway #18898 (F), Flomaton Blvd., Flomaton, 90, FSE First Choice Grocery, Atmore, 91, FSE McDonald’s, Flomaton, 91,…
Confederate Flag Day celebrated
A number of reenactors and visitors celebrated Confederate Flag Day Saturday, March 3, at the Confederate Monument in Canoe. The program included the invocation, Posting of the Colors, pledges and salutes, laying of the wreath by Tammy King, dedication address by SW Brigade Commander Tommy Rhodes and Camp 2088 Commander Kevin McKinley, raising of the flags, rifle and cannon salute, closing and singing of “Dixie.” Flags that have flown over…
Little River to reopen
The following information was released by the Alabama Forestry Commission (AFC) last week. “The AFC’s Claude D. Kelley Recreational Area and Little River State Forest will reopen to the public on March 17, 2018. It will be operational on weekends for day-use-only from Friday noon through Sunday at 5:00 pm. Hours of operation will be expanded in the near future. Camping sites will be available soon.” The park closed indefinitely…
Open house, fly-in Saturday at airport
The local and area aviation community will get a chance to see what the recently refurbished Atmore Municipal Airport has to offer on Saturday, March 10, when city officials and airport management host an open house and fly-in. The event, which is also open to the general public, will begin around 10 a.m. and last until about 1 p.m. New airport manager Freddie McCall was not at the facility this…
Criminal court docket set for March
The Twenty-First Judicial Circuit Criminal Docket is set for March 12, 2018 through March 23, 2018. Courtroom One Christopher Perry Dean, child sex abuse; Roman Pierce, enticing child immoral purposes; Christian Daniels, TOP / deception, att-CS crime; Tyconius Stallworth, UPCS; Earnest Lee Watson, UPCS; Woodie Carroll, Jr., DV strangulation; Jerome Bailey, trafficking / CS x 2; Prince Devonte Grace, UDCS, UPCS; Michael Crenshaw, crim. neg. homicide; Lamarlen Hixon, felon in…