Month: November 2021

Atmore News

Pilots for Christ addresses Lions Club
From left, Courtney McBride, Lion Patty Davis, Tommy Lee By NANCY KARRICKSpecial to Atmore News The Atmore Lions Club met in the Mayson Auditorium at Atmore Community Hospital Wednesday, November 3.President Taylor Lee called the meeting to order and led the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. Lion Patty Davis gave the invocation. Guests Tommy Lee, John Hiebert, Courtney McBride, and Talerie McGhee were welcomed as visitors.Lion Patty Davis introduced…
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Obituaries, week of November 10, 2021
John Fredrick Calvert Mr. John Fredrick Calvert, age 76, Haleyville, Ala. passed away Saturday, October 30, 2021. He was born to Ellis and Lyda Calvert in Good Hope, Ala. He played interior Line Positions for the University of Alabama Football Team from 1963-1966, where he was part of the S.E.C. Championship Teams in 1964, 1965, 1966 and National Championship Teams in 1964 and 1965. He settled in as an Offensive…
by Atmore News access_time3 years ago
Charges dropped
Clack By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Life is returning to normal for an Atmore teen who was charged — as an adult — more than three months ago with two pornography-related crimes as a result of a video he posted as a prank on Facebook.According to court documents, Escambia County District Judge Eric Coale ordered that all charges be dropped against Jeremiah Clack, who was arrested in July at age…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
‘Big John’ retires
Stallworth ends APD career as departments second-in-command Stallworth and his wife, Tyann, pose together for the first time with him in uniform. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer For most of the past 28 years, John Stallworth has worn the badge of the Atmore Police Department. He put that badge away Tuesday, November 2, marking the end of his APD career.Stallworth, 48, joined the city police department in April of 1994…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Personnel shortage tops BOE agenda
News Staff Report The Escambia County Board of Education addressed a number of issues in regular session Thursday, October 28. Superintendent Michele McClung presented a proposal to the board currently for information only. She is looking into contracting with Kelly Educational Services (KES) to manage substitutes due to the shortage of personnel. The system is almost at a crisis level, McClung said. In fact, she related an incident in a…
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