Josh Frye

The long wait is over …maybe
I remember the afternoon when the world stopped due to the Covid-19 virus. That afternoon was spent covering a baseball game at Escambia Academy, and, like everyone else, I was excited to see the kids, especially the senior players in action for their last baseball season. Anticipation of who would make the playoffs was killing me, just as it was most everyone. Then, with the drop of a hat, the…
Local football teams resume summer practice schedules
ECHS head coach Scott Mason checks the temperature of player JaTerious Kyles as local area teams return to summer practice Monday. By JOSH FRYE News Sportswriter All high school football teams in the Atmore News coverage area, with the exception of Northview, returned to fieldhouses Monday, June 8, to begin summer practice schedules. Since school functions and sports were first cancelled at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, the future…
Summerford selected as Northview’s new football coach
Summerford By JOSH FRYE News Sportswriter After months of anticipation since the resignation of former head football coach Derek Marshman, Northview High School has named 34-year-old Wesley Summerford as the school’s new head football coach. Summerford, a 2014 graduate of Tate High School, began his first stint as a head football coach on Monday. “I am very excited,” the new NHS coach said. “I keep having to tell myself to…
Good economic news
Bradley Bryne U.S. Congressman First it was the public health experts whose projections were wrong about COVID-19. They predicted far more spread of the disease, and death from it, than we have actually experienced. They also predicted that those states which opened up before others would have a widespread breakout and a spike of hospitalization, and that hasn’t happened either. Then, on Friday, the unemployment numbers for May were released…
Brewton sex offender gets 14 months for refusal to register
Special to Atmore News U.S. Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced last week that 47-year-old Timothy Felder of Brewton was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison for his repeated refusal to register as a convicted sex offender, a charge to which Felder pled guilty in December. According to court documents, Felder was convicted of incest in Fulton County, Ga., and was required to register…