Month: November 2022

Special to Atmore News Local farmer Brenda Coker recently directed a $5,000 Bayer Fund America’s Farmers Grow Communities donation to Huxford Elementary School STEM.In 2022, Bayer Fund revamped America’s Farmers Grow Communities program, making it easier for farmers across the country to find and fund the organizations and institutions that keep their communities thriving. This included doubling the individual donations to $5,000, up from $2,500 in previous years to provide…

Check out the new arrivals at Atmore Public Library. Patrons rate new arrivalsSeveral patrons are sharing their opinions of the new books they’ve read. Five stars is the top rating. Carolyn Morris: The Return of the Gods by Jonathan Cahn  5 stars Myrna Monroe: Call the Midwife Series by Jennifer Worth  5 stars Heather Roley: Desperation in Death by J.D. Robb  5 stars Fiction   Soul Taken by Patricia Briggs…

Alan and Kaki Baker Cindy Jackson and Randall Jackson By SHERRY DIGMONNews Publisher More than 200 people “came home” for Pollard-McCall Jr. High School’s 100th anniversary celebration held Saturday, October 29.Memorabilia filled tables along the walls in the auditorium – scrapbooks, yearbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings.Some of the attendees didn’t go to school here, but their children, grandchildren, and, in Mildred Brooks’ case great-grandchildren, attended Pollard-McCall.Alan Baker didn’t attend, but his…

At Rachel Patterson Elementary School, firefighters Dee Guy, left, and Eugene Edwards talk to students. Attending the fire department’s October 18 demonstration in the parking lot of First United Methodist Church were Cub Scouts Pack 275 members, front row from left, Gerard Benauer (Tiger), Joshua McIntyre (Lion), Nathaniel McIntyre (Lion); second row, from left, Marshall Nall (Webelos), Samuel McIntyre (Arrow of Light), Dillon Seamons (Arrow of Light), Dean Marks (Arrow…

News Staff ReportWitches rode through town. Ghosts and goblins, farmers, dinosaurs, and assorted other characters took to the streets Friday, October 29 to take part in the Chamber’s Trick or Treat on the Street and Main Street Atmore’s Witches Ride. Conner Wooten, Bennett Brooks, and Ella Rose Cannon The Pepsi ladies take part in the Witches Ride The witches ride passing through Main Street Forrest Gump Bo Ramer (left), Blakelee…