Atmore News

Future builders
HIPPY Escambia April group meeting was unique – the youngsters participated in Home Depot Kids Workshop. They used hammers and paint and built a kit of their choosing – sailboats, helicopters, baskets and picture frames. Shown are the future builders, Jase Eubanks, Wil Copenhaver, Korie Boutwell, Jamie Quinley, Madison Daniel, Bentley Byrd, Emberlyn Lundy, Wade Lundy, Kamdon Ganey, Kase Brown, Kinley Brown, Anna Bledsoe, Evalyn Stewart and Deagan Buck. HIPPY…
Festival at Cross Point
News Staff Report With an eye to the weather Friday, Cross Point Baptist Church members were busy setting up for the Spring Forward Spring Festival Saturday. Though threatening all day, the weather held Saturday for folks to come out and enjoy gospel music, vendors, a car show, good food and fellowship. And for the kids, there were inflatables and a pony ride. It was the first event of this nature…
6 to be inducted into Atmore Area Hall of Fame
By SHERRY DIGMON News Publisher Six outstanding citizens will be inducted into the Atmore Area Hall of Fame April 27. They are Dr. Wil Baker, Robert Faircloth, Ann Gordon, Novy L. Hale, the Rev. Isaac Holt, and Wayne Stacey. The 14th Annual Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Dinner is set for Saturday, April 27, 6 p.m., at The Club. Tickets, $25 each, are available at Atmore News, 128 N.…
Condemned killer reportedly chooses electric chair
News Staff Report Alabama death row inmate Christopher Lee Price, sentenced to death in 1993 for the murder of a Fayette County preacher and businessman who was killed two years earlier, is scheduled to finally pay for his crime. According to an announcement by Alabama Department of Corrections officials, Price is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. this Thursday, April 11, at William C. Holman Correctional Facility near Atmore. Price…
Atmore schools, Part 2
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Note: The following article is the second in a three-part series on the Escambia County Board of Education’s status on the improvement undergone at the system’s three Atmore-based schools, as well as plans to continue that improvement. Escambia County education officials maintained during a special March 20 presentation that the three schools inside Atmore — Escambia County High, Escambia County Middle and Rachel Patterson…