Year: 2019

Atmore News

City council meets
Brownfields workshop Nov. 12 By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore City Council members authorized the city’s engineering firm to apply for state road and street funds, approved the municipal observation of Veterans Day and learned of a workshop designed to explain the mitigation of several sites on which hazardous materials have seeped into the ground. The first order of business for the council during the Monday, October 28, meeting…
by Atmore News access_time5 years ago
3-county chase
High-speed pursuit ends at I-65 exit in Atmore By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A Mobile woman and man, both well-known to law enforcement in southern Alabama, remained in Mobile Metro Jail Tuesday (October 29) after having the previous evening led officers from several agencies on a high-speed chase that started in Mobile and came to an end in Atmore. Detective Jonathan Forister of the Prichard Police Department said Tuesday…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Halloween activities
News Staff Report These are the Halloween activities taking place Thursday as submitted to Atmore News. * The Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring Trick or Treat on the Street from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., October 31. * Presley Street Baptist Church will have Fall Festival Thursday, October 31, from 4 to 6 p.m. All are welcome for food – fun – fellowship – games – and photo op spot…
by Atmore News access_time5 years ago
No WSD this year
Threat of storms prompts Chamber board to pull plug on festival By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer For many Atmore residents, an autumn without Williams Station Day is like a day without sunshine. That was the case, literally and figuratively, Saturday (October 26) when a threat of violent weather prompted the first-ever cancellation of the annual event, which has for the past 27 years celebrated the history of the community…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago