Month: May 2022

Atmore News

More details on pre-K program at A.C. Moore
News Staff Report During a May 12 Board of Education called meeting, Escambia County Superintendent of Education Michele McClung revealed more details on the Alabama First-Class Pre-K program that is set for implementation in January in the A.C. Moore Elementary School building.The state-funded program, which is cost-free and voluntary, is for youngsters who will be age 4 on September 1. McClung told BOE members that state education officials have allocated…
by Atmore News access_time3 years ago
Zeigler qualifies to run for Secretary of State
Zeiglar The following announcement was submitted to Atmore News by the Alabama Press Association as a paid service on behalf of the candidate. It is printed as submitted with the exception of some spacing.State Auditor Jim Zeigler (R) has qualified to run for the open seat of Secretary of State. He will run in the May 24th Republican primary for the seat being left by outgoing Secretary of State John…
by Atmore News access_time3 years ago
Parole denied for area inmates
Tolbert Ullrich By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A Brewton man will apparently remain a state inmate for five more years, while a Uriah man will apparently serve his entire sentence after each was denied parole during recent hearings by the Alabama Board of Pardons & ParolesRicky Tolbert was convicted in 2012 of a “Class B felony” related to the non-fatal shooting of an 18-year-old Brewton man during a party at…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Clarification
In an article on the May 24 primary elections that appeared in the May 11 edition of Atmore News, some information apparently came from an obsolete website that carried erroneous information.The article stated that Stephen Sexton, who is challenging Greg Albritton for the District 22 seat in the Alabama Senate, was a farmer. The candidate said the error was published when he told the person composing it that he “was…
by Atmore News access_time3 years ago
April 23 wreck victim succumbs to injuries
News Staff Report Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) officials announced that a Milton, Fla. man, injured April 23 in a single-vehicle wreck on Cowpen Creek Road, succumbed to his injuries.Reports by ALEA state troopers show that Stephen K. Lodge, 52, was critically injured when the 2020 Harley-Davidson motorcycle he was operating left the roadway and overturned around 5 p.m. that afternoon.Lodge was taken to Sacred Heart Hospital, where he passed…
by Atmore News access_time3 years ago