Day: September 11, 2019

Honoring first responders By SHERRY DIGMON News Publisher For the 13th year, the congregations of Trinity Episcopal Church and St. Anna’s Episcopal Church hosted a Blue Mass to honor first responders who serve in Atmore, Poarch and the surrounding area. The service is also a time to remember those who perished September 11, 2001, in the attack on America. This year’s service was held Sunday, September 8, at Trinity. The…

Charged with roughing up 5th-grader By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Sheriff Heath Jackson reported last week that W.S. Neal Middle School assistant principal Donald Eugene Hardyman Jr, 56, of Brewton, was taken into custody after a county grand jury voted to formally accuse him of a criminal act for allegedly roughing up a fifth-grade student at the Brewton school. According to Escambia County Detention Center records, Hardyman is charged…