Year: 2019

The Escambia County Board of Education is hosting a FREE substitute personnel training session. This session will be held Friday, September 27, Flomaton High School Auditorium. If you are currently on the substitute list for the school district and/or wish to become a substitute teacher, teacher assistant, secretary, cafeteria worker, bus driver or custodian, you must attend this training before you can begin subbing for the 2019-2020 school year. No…

The Atmore Area Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting for Atmore Tire & Alignment Center Friday, September 20. Chamber board members, friends and family joined the owners and employees for the occasion. Shown are, from left, Emilee Waters, Emily Wilson, Vanessa Testone, Gilbert Gorum (back), Mike Ganiat, Evan Chick, Raymond Jerkins, Beth Chick, Chuck Chick, Jessie Risher, Danny Gorum, Linda Gorum, Brett Gorum, Amber Melton, Bryant Melton, Ansley Risher,…

By SHERRY DIGMON News Publisher For years, area newspapers have published columns by Carolyn Bivins with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. She has supplied countless articles pertaining to human nutrition and diet and health. It seems that Carolyn thinks 45 years with the Extension System is long enough – she’s retiring. Everyone is invited to a retirement celebration in her honor Friday, September 27, 2 p.m., at the Ag Science…

Special to Atmore News Joyce Petty AIFD, CFD of Atmore was awarded the floral industry’s coveted Accredited in Floral Design (AIFD) designation and was inducted into the American Institute of Floral Designers (AIFD®). The ceremony took place Tuesday, July 9, at AIFD’s internationally acclaimed 2019 Symposium “Awaken” held July 6-11 in Las Vegas. A non-profit education association dedicated to the advancement of professional floral design through education and leadership, AIFD…