Year: 2018

Atmore News

Blacksher closes season with win over R.C. Hatch
By JOSEPH ODOM News Sports Writer Friday night, Oct. 26, the J.U. Blacksher Bulldogs closed their season with a great win over R.C. Hatch. To start the game, Blacksher kicked off the ball to R.C Hatch. After only 11 plays Hatch turned the ball over on downs leaving Blacksher working from their own 3-yard line. Blacksher turned the ball over on downs after only 4 plays but recovered the ball…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago
Williams Station Day
Chilly winds early, but otherwise ‘perfect’ day for festival  By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Attendance at the Williams Station Day celebration, held last Saturday, October 27, along Pensacola Avenue didn’t set any attendance records. But, with the competition it faced from other area events, the fact that it almost did has organizers declaring the six-hour festival a huge success. “I’m not sure, but I’ve heard estimates that we had…
by Sherry Digmon access_time7 years ago
EA officials: Threat against school not valid
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Escambia Academy Headmaster Hugh Fountain said Tuesday that school officials have not been able to determine who started a rumor that evolved into a reported threat against the school, supposedly made by a student who posted it on a social media site. The threat was reportedly posted Monday night, October 29, on Snapchat. According to a message from the aunt of another EA student,…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
The opioid crisis
Atmore, Escambia County not immune to addiction epidemic By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Note: This article is the first in a two-part series on the opioid crisis and its effect locally. Part two, which will be published in the November 7 edition of Atmore News, will deal with the options available for those addicted to opium-based pain medications. A medical problem that began cropping up in the 1990s has…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Obituaries for the week of October 28,2018
Georgia Earline Burkett Mrs. Georgia Earline Burkett, age 81, of Atmore, Ala., passed away Monday, October 22, 2018 at her home. She was born in Atmore to the late Grace and Stiner Weaver. She was a long-time member of Presley Street Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her parents; son, Gary Burkett, of Alexander City, Ala.; three brothers, Cecil Weaver, Claude (Frances) Weaver and Clarence (Elizabeth) Weaver, all of Atmore;…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago