Month: May 2020

Don Fletcher

Parks, pools open again
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer City of Atmore work crews were at work early Tuesday, re-installing basketball goals at two municipal parks and otherwise preparing for this week’s re-opening of all municipal greenspaces, most of which became accessible to the public again on Tuesday, May 26. The park re-openings were made a priority after Gov. Kay Ivey announced last week several amendments to her initial Safer at Home Order,…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Fatal arrest
FBI shoots, kills fugitive murder suspect Tobby Wiggins talks on the phone to FBI negotiators. Armed, camo-clad FBI agents stand guard as agents in background try to resuscitate the suspect. By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A North Carolina murder suspect, who had been hiding in Atmore for several days, was shot and killed May 20 by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, several hours after a failed attempt to take…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Amended Safer at Home Order
ORDER OF THE STATE HEALTH OFFICER SUSPENDING CERTAIN PUBLIC GATHERINGS DUE TO RISK OF INFECTION BY COVID-19(APPLICABLE STATEWIDE) AMENDED MAY 21, 2020 WHEREAS Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been detected in Alabama; WHEREAS the appearance of COVID-19 in the State poses the potential of widespread exposure to an infectious agent that poses significant risk of substantial harm to a large number of people; WHEREAS the State Board of Health has…
by Atmore News access_time5 years ago
Obituaries, week of May 24,2020
Mary Jane McGhee Mrs. Mary Jane McGhee, age 72, passed away Monday, May 18, 2020 at her home in Atmore, Ala. She was a native and life-long resident of Atmore. She was a member of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians and the First Pentecostal Church of McCullough. She attended the Poarch Creek Sales Center and enjoyed sewing, making quilts, shelling peas and playing bingo. She was preceded in death…
by Atmore News access_time5 years ago