Month: October 2020

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore City Council members and more than a dozen city citizens learned during the September 28 council meeting just how much it will cost taxpayers to bring a massive, state-of-the-art peanut processing plant to the city. City Attorney Larry Wettermark and Centerfire Economic CEO Jess Nicholas, who has been contracted by the Escambia County Industrial Development Authority to help bring businesses to the county,…

The stolen vehicle damaged the Legion building at Main and Church. By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A Saturday morning (October 3) attempt by an unknown man to outrun city police ended when the stolen vehicle the man was driving left a city street and bounced off a building before coming to rest on the sidewalk across the street. Atmore Police Department reports show that the Chevy Tahoe, reported stolen…

News Staff Report According to a joint press release from the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA) and Alabama Counts!, the U.S. Census Bureau has informed the state that it plans to officially end the 2020 Census nationwide on Oct. 31. During the extension, the Census Bureau’s field workers, including door-to-door census takers, will continue their work to follow up with households that haven’t yet responded. All Alabamians…

Parents, sister remain hospitalized James By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A Saturday morning (October 3) crash on Florida Highway 97, just south of Walnut Hill, claimed the life of an 11-year-old Atmore boy and left his parents and sister hospitalized. Jaden James, a sixth-grade student at Flomaton Elementary School who planned to join the clergy when he reached adulthood, was airlifted from the wreck site to a Pensacola, Fla.…