Atmore News

Perdido School holds spelling bee
Special to Atmore News The Perdido School 2018-19 Spelling Bee was held Wednesday, January 9. All the participants did a fantastic job representing their grade level in the school spelling bee. After 35 rounds, fifth-grader Carley New was declared the champion and Dessie James was first runner-up. Carley will represent Perdido School in the county spelling bee Tuesday, February 5, in Loxley.
Atmore friends meet at Alabama-Clemson game
Former Atmore residents Scottie Rodgers and Woody McCorvey Jr. ran into each other at the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship Game Media Day festivities in San Jose, Calif. Rodgers is Associate Commissioner, Strategic Communications at the Sun Belt Conference office in New Orleans, and McCorvey is Associate Director of Athletics for Football Administration at Clemson.
Coale appointed District Judge
News Staff Report Brewton resident Eric Coale was recently appointed by Governor Kay Ivey to the Escambia County District Court judgeship. A series of events that began with the announcement by venerable Judge Bert Rice that he would not seek another term led to the fulfillment by Coale of a goal he set more than two years ago. After two years in office, Judge Jeff White, who won the 2016…
MLK events
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Sandra Gray, president of Concerned Citizens of Atmore, announced during the January 14 Atmore City Council meeting the route for this year’s Martin Luther King Day parade and the scheduling of other events in honor of the iconic Civil Rights leader, who was assassinated in 1968. The memorial events will begin with the MLK Prayer Breakfast, which will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday,…