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Biden’s first 100 days: A failure to lead

Congressman Jerry Carl When President Biden ran for office, he promised to work in a bipartisan manner for the betterment of all Americans. In an attempt to build goodwill, several colleagues and I sent President Biden a letter on his first day in office letting him know we would like a seat at the table on specific issues such as infrastructure and COVID relief, but our requests have been entirely…

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.…

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…

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…

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…