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Atmore News

Meet Charming Carl

Charming Carl is looking for his “furever” family to come to the shelter to adopt him. Carl is a one-year-old Dachshund mix that is super friendly with other animals and people. He enjoys his cuddle time just as much as he does play time. Carl is up to date on vaccinations and available for adoption with a $100 adoption fee, which includes neuter. Please make plans to come meet Carl…

Gospel singing set

New Beginning Ministries is hosting a gospel singing with Andy Lollie & Southern Grass Friday, July 17, 6 p.m. Refreshments will follow the singing. The church is located at 11220 Highway 97, Davisville, in the Piggly Wiggly shopping center. For more information, contact the Rev. Thurl Pearson, 251-577-2947.

Our common defense

Bradley Bryne U.S. Congressman Last week, the House Armed Services Committee, which I’m proud to be a member of, passed and sent to the full House the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021. This is the 60th year in a row that we have passed this act out of Committee, and since we passed it unanimously, we are optimistic it will pass the full…

Mobile home, car destroyed by fire

Firefighter Shane Rollin sprays water on the smoldering automobile. By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore firefighters spent just over an hour gaining control of a Friday (July 3) evening fire that destroyed an abandoned mobile home and car and threatened several homes off Virginia Drive. “It was an old, abandoned trailer that was empty,” said Fire Chief Ron Peebles of the structure, which was reported burning at 6:24 p.m.…

Correction/apology

An article published in the July 1 edition of Atmore News, about parole being denied to Tommie Lynn Goins, contained incorrect information. (Goins was convicted of the 1986 shotgun slaying of Atmore resident Hanks Roberts and sent to prison for life.) In the article, it was incorrectly stated that Goins “claimed he killed Roberts because Roberts had physically abused his wife (Goins’s sister).” According to Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals…