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Atmore News

Nominations accepted now

The Atmore Area Chamber of Commerce 72nd Annual Meeting is set for Thursday, January 25, at The Club. Social hour and silent auction will be at 5:30, with dinner at 6:30. This year, the Chamber is sponsoring a split-the-pot drawing with 100 tickets being sold for $100 each. Note that only 100 tickets will be sold. The drawing will be held the night of the banquet. The deadline for nominations…

Inside the Statehouse

By Steve Flowers As we enter the 2018 campaign season, many of you have asked me to look back and analyze the 2017 Special Election Senate race and explain in depth what happened and why. The most asked question is how could a Democrat win a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama and does this mean that we are now possibly a two-party state? I will give you numerous answers, however,…

Loved ones who went home in 2017

January James Donald “J.D.” Hanks April 20, 1929 – January 2, 2017 Evelyn McKinley Pipkin November 14, 1936 – January 4, 2017 Opal J. Caraway December 5, 1942 – January 5, 2017 Edna Wilson McLoyd April 22, 1932 – January 5, 2017 Alvin E. Owens October 11, 1932 – January 7, 2017 Melvin Dortch November 24, 1956 – January 8, 2017 Levonda G. Jones June 23, 1968 – January 8,…

2 officers join APD

Atmore Police Department’s rank and file welcomed two rookie patrol officers after the December 7 graduation ceremony at the Alabama Criminal Justice Training Center’s police academy. The new officers — Guytel Martin and Logan Weber — have strong ties to the community, making their APD employment an even better fit. Martin, who worked 10 years with Pepsi Cola Bottling of Atmore before deciding to try his hand at policing, was…

2017 in review

There was good news, bad news and news that fell somewhere in-between across Atmore and the surrounding area in 2017, including the controversial consolidation of a local elementary school with two other schools, the 50th anniversary of a local business and one of its employees, and a state football championship. There were also a spate of August murders and arrests for previous murders, a destructive fire that heavily damaged a…