Day: May 5, 2021

Atmore News

Health order ends May 31
Special to Atmore News Gov. Kay Ivey announced Monday, May 3, that Alabama’s COVID-19 public health order will end Monday, May 31, and the state of emergency will end Tuesday, July 6.“For over a year now, Alabamians, like people around the globe, have made sacrifices and adjusted to a temporary ‘new normal’,” the governor said. “We have learned much since last year, and this is absolutely now a managed pandemic.…
by Atmore News access_time3 years ago
Convicted felon from Atmore arrested in Pensacola
Stark By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore man, convicted several years ago in Mobile County of first-degree robbery, was recently arrested and charged with two weapons violations as he sat in his car outside a Pensacola, Fla. nightclub.Pensacola Police Department reports show that Robert Mario Stark, 28, of a Liberty Street address, was taken into custody April 18 after police investigated the smell of burnt marijuana coming from a…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Council approves land sale for USDA facility
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore’s City Council, sitting one member short, approved during the Monday, April 26, council meeting the sale of a piece of property on Carpet Drive that will be used for a United States Department of Agriculture peanut grading facility.The new facility will reportedly be built on a 5.014-acre site near the Coastal Growers shelling plant that is being constructed along Industrial and Carpet drives. Mayor…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Grant awarded for rail spur
Special to Atmore News The U.S. Economic Development Administration has awarded the city of Atmore a $2 million grant to complete a rail spur in Atmore Industrial Park, which will primarily serve the new Coastal Growers LLC peanut shelling facility.Total project funding — a combination of $2 million in federal funds, $300,000 in state funds and $200,000 in local funds — will be used to construct a rail spur from…
by Atmore News access_time3 years ago
ECHS coach passes; candlelight vigil planned
Shears By JOSH FRYENews Staff Writer Escambia County High School staff confirmed last Thursday (April 29) that ECHS varsity basketball head coach, physical education teacher and offensive football coordinator John Shears, 44, passed away at his home in West Mobile.“This is devastating news,” ECHS athletic director and head football coach Scott Mason said. “John was loved by everyone. He was a great coach, friend and co-worker. Most of all, he…
by Josh Frye access_time3 years ago