Year: 2020

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks reported this week that APD detectives are investigating two separate shooting incidents, each of which occurred inside the city limits last Sunday, October 25. A person was wounded in one of the incidents, and investigators are reportedly looking at the case as a possible attempted murder, while details of the other one are almost non-existent. In a press release…

To be built across from Walmart By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer City of Atmore officials confirmed with an “ultra-high degree of certainty” that Jack’s Family Restaurants will build its 11th — and southernmost — Alabama-based fast-food eatery here. Mayor Jim Staff said the deal is all but done, having come down to some minor amendments to the wording of the contract between the city and officials of the restaurant…

Foster Kizer, at left in foreground, and architect Steve Stone of Mobile-based dakinstreet architects, at right, listen to comments from Dale Ash (off camera) during the October 16 pre-bid walk-through of the Strand Theatre and the former Atmore Hardware building, which will soon be restored. Stone and potential bidders joined Kizer, Ash and Cindy Colville for the tour. Bids will be opened November 20, and the renovation project is expected…

Crowder Gulf crews are in the final stages of debris removal after Hurricane Sally’s winds wreaked havoc on trees in and around Atmore in September. All city parks and cemeteries have reopened, and more than 37,000 cubic yards of vegetative debris have been removed from along city streets. Stumps and large tree pieces are being stored at the former Escambia County Middle School site, where they are being ground into…