Year: 2021

Special to Atmore News On Wednesday, December 8, Progressive Civic & Recreational Club, Inc. distributed turkeys to needy families in the Atmore area.PCRC serves the community by assisting the elderly in need, sponsoring scholarships to graduating high school seniors, donating to the food bank, giving baskets to the needy, honoring a Mother and Father of the Year, and sponsoring youth teams in basketball and baseball, just to name a few…

Johnson By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An investigation that began just over three weeks ago resulted in the arrest Thursday, December 9, of a woman who is charged with having sex with a Flomaton High School student while she was working as an athletic trainer at the school.According to a press release issued by Escambia County (Ala.) Sheriff Heath Jackson, ECSO investigators began on Nov. 15 to look into a…

Johnson Piland Swann By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore man, sentenced two years ago to a prison term but still in the Escambia County Detention Center awaiting transfer, was denied parole during recent hearings by the Alabama Board of Pardons & Paroles.Emmanuel Mandella Johnson, 31, is technically serving a 97-month sentence after his 2019 conviction on charges of first-degree marijuana possession. He is also awaiting trial on his March…

AFD Chief Ron Peebles (center) is flanked by rookie firefighters Kyle Hostetler, at left, and DeMarcus McMillian. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore Fire Department officially welcomed two new firefighters last week when cadets DeMarcus McMillian and Kyle Hostetler graduated from Alabama Fire College in Mobile.McMillian, 28, was reared in Mobile and Atmore. The son of Melinda Howard and Alex McMillian of Mobile, he and his wife Evette have two…