Year: 2022

More than 40 people, including a few in strollers, either walked or were strolled from the former YMCA building on Pensacola Avenue, to Tom Byrne Park, as part of the 2nd Annual Mental Health Awareness Walk, held May 7. The walk was organized by Marlo Young, who heads up the county school system’s mental health programs and services. Young and others, who also manned an information booth at Mayfest, were…

This Nissan Frontier was heavily damaged in a two-car collision at 5 p.m. Monday, May 9, at the intersection of Craig and South Main streets. Atmore Police Department reports show that the Nissan’s driver, Cheryl McMahon of Cantonment, “believed the traffic sign was blinking yellow” and pulled into the path of a Buick Envision, driven by Jennifer Daw of Atmore (shown in background). No one was seriously injured.

Garrick Hunnicutt Riley By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer No details were available on the arrest by this week’s press deadline, but the Escambia County Detention Center (ECDC) website shows that Poarch Creek Indians police arrested an Atmore man on charges he stole property valued at more than $2,500.According to the website, 46-year-old Christopher Damon Garrick was processed into the county jail on May 7 on one count of first-degree theft.Theft…