Year: 2019

The rain – and forecast for more – put a damper on Canoe Market Days last Saturday. Anticipating a low turnout, all but one vendor cancelled. However, organizers had taken orders for smoked chicken plates – almost 80 plates, in fact – and that part of the day went on without a hitch. Shown, taking a break are Kevin McKinley, front left, and his dad, O’Neal McKinley, front right, Susan…

By PIA GORME Special to Atmore News For six weeks this summer, five Alabama School of Mathematics and Science (ASMS) instructors (one each for pre-kindergarten-second graders, third-sixth graders, and seventh-tenth graders) taught hands-on STEM activities at the Poarch Creek Community Center in collaboration with the PCI Education Department. These activities, based in biology, were complementary with the PCI summer reading program “Take a Hike into Reading,” were tailored to each…

The following Escambia County food / lodging establishment ratings were released by the Alabama Department of Public Health for June. Ratings are ranked by score, low to high. FSE = Food Service Establishment Subway, Lindberg Ave., Atmore, 92, FSE Hardee’s, Flomaton, 93, FSE Spudd’s, Atmore, 93, limited food Abundant Life Church Daycare, Atmore, 93, daycare food service Atmore Dragway, Atmore, 93, FSE R & F Foods of Alabama, Inc., Atmore,…