Day: December 11, 2019

Josh Frye

Peebles, 3 NHS teammates to play in Subway all-star game
By JOSH FRYE News Sportswriter When the 2019 Subway All-Star Football Game kicks off this Friday, December 13, at Blue Wahoos Stadium in Pensacola, Fla., four Northview High seniors will represent their school on the West squad. Fullback Trent Peebles, who rushed for more than 1,200 yards and scored more than 20 touchdowns, will be joined by offensive linemen Garrick Davis and Cameron Findley, as well as linebacker Wyatt Windham.…
by Josh Frye access_time5 years ago
Empowering Alabama with education opportunities
Education is an amazing tool. It can transform the lives of both the young and old. A quality education empowers the powerless and provides opportunities in otherwise bleak circumstances. It can provide a path out of poverty. I think of Abraham Lincoln, who famously walked miles to borrow books from neighboring towns and farms. Despite being poor, he used what little money he made from farm chores and labor to…
by Submitted Article access_time5 years ago
Bumps and bruises
An 82-year-old Atmore woman suffered only minor injuries after she drove her 2011 Honda Accord off fog-shrouded Old Bratt Road, ran over a stop sign and slammed into a tree around 5:49 p.m. last Friday, December 6. Alabama State Troopers reported that the woman was attempting to turn right off West State Line Road when the crash occurred. Emergency personnel said the woman suffered only bumps and bruises from airbag…
by Atmore News access_time5 years ago
City to apply for $1M sanitation shop funding
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore’s City Council approved during its Monday, December 9, meeting an application for nearly $1 million in funding for a new municipal maintenance building and purchase a new garbage truck. The council voted 4-0, with District 3’s Chris Walker abstaining, to approve an application to the United States Department of Agriculture for a loan from the USDA’s Rural Development funding program. The abstention stems…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Tense situation as cable snaps, yanks tower worker 40 feet into air
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer An employee of a company performing maintenance on a local cell phone tower escaped serious injury when a guy wire snapped and yanked him about 40 feet into the air shortly after 1 p.m. last Friday, December 6. The unidentified worker, an employee of Douglasville, Ga.-based Bennett Communications, dangled upside-down from the tower, located about 100 yards off Jack Springs Road, near its junction…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago