Month: July 2020

Don Fletcher

COVID-19’s effect
Sales taxes have remained steady, but lodging taxes cut in half By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Despite the closing of all “non-essential” businesses as part of the Stay at Home Order issued in mid-March by Gov. Kay Ivey, the city of Atmore suffered only a minuscule drop in sales tax collections before the order morphed into a Safer at Home decree, and more businesses were allowed to reopen. Lodging…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
School reopening plan released
By SHERRY DIGMON News Publisher Last Friday, July 10, Escambia County Superintendent of Education John Knott, with the approval of the Board of Education, released the Back to School 2020-2021 Plan for Reopening Overview. The document is 11 pages long and it is what it says – an overview. Detailed – and lengthier – documents are provided to school principals for guidance and implementation. The plan was presented to the…
by Sherry Digmon access_time4 years ago
Free supplies, uniforms at drive-thru ‘Unity’ event
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a long list of changes in most aspects of people’s daily lives. Add Grace Fellowship Church’s annual Unity in the Community Festival to the list. The event, which is being billed as “Unity in the Community, COVID Style,” has for the past several years served as a back-to-school celebration for roughly 1,000 children and adults. It will still be…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
Death toll at 13
Number of confirmed COVID cases in county still rising By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Despite a statewide mandatory face mask order issued July 15 by Gov. Kay Ivey, the number of COVID-19 cases across the county and state continue to climb. Alabama Department of Public Health officials announced in an update after release of the department’s twice-weekly report of Tuesday, July 21, that 13 people have now lost their…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
Obituaries, week of July 19, 2020
Omar Helen Williams Mrs. Omar Helen Williams, age 77, of Oak Grove, Fla., passed away on Wednesday, July 15, 2020. She was born in Century, Fla. to the late Samuel Andrews and Lizzie Campbell Andrews.  She was preceded in death by his parents; her sister, Evelyn Bass and her son, Christopher Henderson.  Mrs. Williams is survived by her husband of forty-four years, William “Bill” Williams; two sons, Robert (Leslie) Henderson…
by Atmore News access_time4 years ago