Year: 2020

350-page feasibility study completed, delivered, being studied By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Note: This week’s article is the first on a planned three-part series on the city schools feasibility study, its positives and negatives, and the questions that still remain regarding formation of a municipal school system. Finally, more than a year after the anticipated completion of a city-sanctioned study to determine the feasibility of forming a three-school municipal…

Gov. wants to reboot state’s economy; stay-home order stays in place By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer As Gov. Kay Ivey announced plans to cautiously kick-start the state’s economy after more than a month of relative dormancy, state and local health officials reported this week that the number of Escambia County (Ala.) residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 has risen. Ivey announced a moderate loosening up of her stay-at-home…

From left, APD Sgt. James Beasley, Sgt. Thaihee Staples and Officer Gordon Brooks handle security at the intersection By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer As Atmore News prepared to go to press on Tuesday, April 21, Atmore police and law enforcement officers from numerous other agencies responded to a report of a hostage situation on Sneed Drive. Uniformed and plain clothes police, along with state and federal agents and Special…