Day: August 12, 2020

Atmore News

Receive 10 free trees
Join the Arbor Day Foundation in August Special to Atmore News Spruce up your landscape by joining the Arbor Day Foundation in August. Everyone who joins the Arbor Day Foundation with a $10 donation will receive 10 free Norway spruce trees or 10 white flowering dogwood trees through the Foundation’s Trees for America campaign. The trees will be shipped postpaid between October 15 and December 10, depending on the right…
by Atmore News access_time4 years ago
Williamson competes in state ag contest
Spencer Williamson of Escambia County was one of six contestants in the Excellence in Agriculture competition held by the Alabama Farmers Federation July 31. Participants in the event are Young Farmers who are involved in agriculture but derive the majority of their income off the farm. Williamson, left, is shown with Federation Executive Director Paul Pinyan.
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New arrivals at the library
Check out the new arrivals at Atmore Public Library. Patrons rate new arrivals Several patrons are sharing their opinions of the new books they’ve read. Five stars is the top rating. Maria Alanis: The Trustworthy One by Shelly Shepard Gray, 5 stars Shelia Trawick: A Walk Along the Beach by Debbie Macomber, 5 stars Anne Petty: The Summer House by James Patterson, 5 stars Shelia Trawick: A Beautiful Arrangement by…
by Atmore News access_time4 years ago
Celebrating the Nineteenth Amendment
Bradley Bryne U.S. Congressman On August 18, the U.S. will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to our Constitution which guaranteed women’s right to vote. The women’s suffrage movement in our country began in the 1840s as women abolitionists saw the parallels between the effort to free enslaved Americans and their own desire to vote. A convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York in…
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