Month: January 2020

Don Fletcher

Local group lobbies for ‘super prison’
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A contingent of five local and area officials carried high hopes but a low degree of certainty into a January 3 meeting with Gov. Kay Ivey’s Chief of Staff Jo Bonner and other senior staff members on the possibility that one of the state’s three proposed “super prisons” would be located just outside Atmore. They left the meeting as uncertain as they had arrived,…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Excess rain led to Frontier outage
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Reporter The deluge dumped on Atmore two weeks ago by Mother Nature did more than leave water standing on numerous city streets. The several inches of rain that fell late January 3 and early January 4 played havoc with antiquated cable employed by Frontier Communications and left many business and residential customers without service for a week before service was restored. The problem, caused when…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Dumpster diving
Thrift store plagued by theft of donated items By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer As most people are aware, downtown Atmore’s We Care Thrift Store accepts donations of clothes, household items, furniture and more, then sells those items to finance the We Care Program prison ministry. Officials of the local store have recently reported that their effort to finance the ministry, which is designed to help the families of those…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
MLK Parade route set
News Staff Report The annual Martin Luther King Parade and Memorial Program will be held Monday, January 20. The parade line-up is at 9 a.m. at Houston Avery Park on Martin Luther King Avenue, with the parade rolling at 10 a.m. The parade route is as follows: * MLK Avenue to Carver Avenue, right on Carver * Carver to Ashley Street, right on Ashley * Ashley to Main Street, right…
by Atmore News access_time5 years ago
Applications accepted for fruit, vegetable vouchers
Escambia County Agency on Aging officials announced that applications for fruit and vegetable vouchers are now being accepted.   Those who wish to obtain vouchers must be age 60 or over, and household income limits apply.   For more information, call the agency on aging at 251-368-1032 and choose option 7.   Those calling need to have their total household income and the last four digits of their social security…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago