Day: March 18, 2020

Atmore News

Casino cookies
Wind Creek Hotel recently ordered 500 St. Patrick’s Day cookies for hotel guests. Since the hotel and all other Wind Creek Alabama properties are closed, half the cookies were donated to staff at Atmore Community Hospital, while the other half were donated to residents of William F. Green State Veterans Home in Bay Minette. Shown, from left, Jordan Plato, Samantha Miller with Wind Creek, Brad Lowery, Kim Miller and Suzanne…
by Atmore News access_time4 years ago
3 denied parole
Staff Reports Shon Phillips of Atmore was among those denied parole during Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles hearings on March 11. Phillips began in 2018 serving a sentence of 65 months (5-1/2 years) in prison after his conviction for distribution of a controlled substance. Some may remember Phillips for his outstanding basketball career at Escambia County High School. In 1999, he earned honorable mention on the Alabama Sportswriters Association…
by Atmore News access_time4 years ago
Coronavirus
Special session, restrictions, closings By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore’s mayor and council met Monday, March 16, in a special session to provide updates from local health, court and senior services officials on the affects the coronavirus outbreak, which has reached the pandemic stage, has had and will have on the community. World Health Organization statistics reveal that the outbreak, which has earned pandemic status, had through Monday affected…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago