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Atmore News

Pow Wow is back

Special to Atmore News After a two-year break due to COVID, the Poarch Band of Creek Indians will once again celebrate one of its most unique Thanksgiving traditions with its Annual Pow Wow.The two-day celebration, which will be held Thursday, November 24, (Thanksgiving Day), and Friday, November 25, marks the 50th anniversary of the gathering on Poarch’s reservation lands that began in 1971 as a homecoming celebration for Tribal members.Defined…

Council approves software for new APD computers

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore City Council, with two members absent and Mayor Jim Staff taking part in the votes, approved during the panel’s Monday, November 14, meeting the purchase of software for in-car computers and printers that were donated to Atmore Police Department.District 4’s Shawn Lassiter was reportedly snowed in at an out-of-state airport, and District 1’s Webb Nall was sick, causing each to miss the session.The council…

Tuesday crash

A two-vehicle collision that happened Tuesday, November 15, around 8: 30 a.m. at the intersection of East Nashville Avenue and Medical Park Drive sent at least one person to Atmore Community Hospital by ambulance. The names of the drivers were not available at Tuesday’s press deadline.

Escapee caught while selling cell phones without license

Vanhuse By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A Montgomery man who was wanted by state corrections officials for escape, was arrested Nov. 7 in Atmore after police received a complaint, he was selling cellular telephones in the city without a business license.The complaint came in around noon that someone — later determined to be Lamar Vanhuse, 46 — was selling cell phones at Bragg Street Apartments without a business license.A police…

Arrest made in October shooting into house

Frye By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An 18-year-old Atmore man was arrested November 7 in connection with shots that were fired into a local residence in October.The incident occurred on October 20, around 1:50 p.m., at a house in the 100 block of Crow Street. Atmore police were sent to the residence in reference to shots being fired into it.APD officers arrived to discover several spent shell casings, believed to…