Year: 2020

Atmore News

Atmore students named to UA honors lists
A total of 16,470 students enrolled during the 2020 spring semester at The University of Alabama were named to the Dean’s List with an academic record of 3.5 or above or the President’s List with an academic record of 4.0 (all A’s). The UA Dean’s and President’s lists recognize full-time undergraduate students. The lists do not apply to graduate students or to undergraduate students who take less than a full…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago
A fiscal reckoning
Bradley Bryne U.S. Congressman When the House returns to business next Monday, we will take up the National Defense Authorization Act I wrote about last week. Then we will take up appropriations bills for next fiscal year, which begins October 1, and likely another Coronavirus bill. This spring I voted for both of the CARES Acts, which together spent $3 trillion. That was on top of this year’s projected total…
by Submitted Article access_time6 years ago
Why is wearing a mask so difficult for some?
I don’t much like wearing a seatbelt. Sometimes it feels like it’s choking me when it gets near my throat. But I adjust it and keep going. Even if it were not a law, I’d wear my seatbelt because I have a better chance of surviving an accident if I have it on. And if you and I are in a crash, I hope you would have your seatbelt on…
by Sherry Digmon access_time6 years ago
2 more locals denied parole
McCantsCrenshaw By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Two more Escambia County men were denied parole last week by the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles. The board gave consideration on July 7 to parole for 20 state inmates, including former county residents Samuel J. Crenshaw and Quayon McCants. Crenshaw, 33, has served three years and four months of a 15-year sentence imposed in Escambia County Circuit Court when he was…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Council approves ditch, A/C
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore City Council members accepted during their Monday, July 13, meeting the low bid for a ditch work project and approved the emergency purchase of an air conditioning unit for the conference room at city hall. In a 10-minute session conducted by teleconference, the council also formally named City Clerk Becca Smith as Elections Manager and re-appointed Judd Coley and Robert White to the…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago