Year: 2021

Josh Frye

Six EA players chosen for 2021 AISA All-Star team
By JOSH FRYENews Sportswriter Six Escambia Academy senior football players will have one last opportunity to strap on the pads before the end of their high school football careers. EA senior players Landon Sims, Brady Howell, Bubba Nettles, J.J. Stevens, Hunter Smith and Chris Long were recently selected to take part in the 2021 AISA All-Star Game, the last hoorah for the best of the best for AISA senior football…
by Josh Frye access_time3 years ago
Local woman continues to ‘serve our warriors’
René Bunch and Santa deliver packages to the post office By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Not quite three years ago, a woman who regularly wrote to her soldier son hit upon the idea of helping brighten the holidays — and many other days — for other deployed service men and women who seldom, if ever, receive mail from home.Through the efforts of Roxanne W. Martino and other military moms, Military…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Obituaries, week of December 1, 2021
Virginia Ann Lee Mrs. Virginia Ann Lee, age 58, passed away Sunday, November 21, 2021 in Bay Minette, Ala. She was born in Hartselle, Ala. and has resided most of her life in Bay Minette. She valued the time she got to spend with her family. She loved watching NASCAR and Alabama Football. She enjoyed arts and crafts, and working in her flower garden. She has always been a people…
by Atmore News access_time3 years ago
The Boys of the Summer of ’61: Remembering the Departed
by BONNIE BARTEL LATINO    ELBERT PRESTON BARNETT played catcher on Atmore’s 1961 All Star Baseball Team that went to the Sr. Little League World Series in Williamsport, Penn. During his Escambia County High School days, Preston was a popular athlete. He played baseball and football for three years and basketball, two. Senior year, his teammates elected him Blue Devil Football co-captain. His classmates elected him their Sophomore and Junior…
by Atmore News access_time3 years ago