Year: 2022

Atmore News

National Prescription Take Back Day
The federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) periodically sponsors National Prescription Drug Take Back Day – a way for residents to remove unneeded medications from their homes as a measure of preventing medication misuse and opioid addiction from ever starting. Local agencies participated in the event Saturday, April 30, in front of Atmore City Hall. Shown are, from left, Sgt. Chris Corbitt with the Atmore Police Department; Atmore Police Chief Chuck…
by Atmore News access_time4 years ago
Arrest made after drone dumps phones at Fountain
Hunter By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A Mobile man, who also provided authorities with a Texas address, was arrested in early April after he allegedly used a drone to try to deliver more than three dozen cell phones to an inmate or a group of inmates at Fountain Correctional Facility.The air-drop scheme might have seemed good at the time, but it wound up putting 33-year-old Joshua Uziel Hunter on a…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
RPES STEM Honor Society
Newly inducted members in the STEM Honor Society, from left, seated, Kaylee Brown, Kambrie Hudson, Jehle Poindexter, Jah’Liyah Dawson, Jackson Wheeler, J’Ceon Gable, Christian Napoleon, Ayden Lowe, Arlaysia Pete; standing, Kayveon Johnson, Khamyria Finklea, Lae’lyn Bogan, LaRoyia Turner, Montez Riley, Paisley Macks, Paxton Young, Syler Fularz, Tro’Darrius McWilliams. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Rachel Patterson Elementary School Principal Toya McMillian likes to refer to her school as the “best-kept secret…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
Hometown heroes
Congressman Jerry Carl Early last year, I joined my friend Rep. Kat Cammack and several colleagues in asking our constituents to submit nominations for hometown heroes who had made an impact in their community over the course of the previous year. The past two years have been tough on millions of Americans across the country who have battled illness, loss of jobs, loss of family members, and financial struggles. Despite…
by Submitted Article access_time4 years ago
Karrick presents Founders’ Day speech
Evelyn Bilbo, right, and Nancy Karrick, center, members of Gamma Omega Chapter of The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International in Atmore, visited Delta Chapter in Monroeville April 12. They were welcomed by Dawn Pettit, left, Delta Chapter president and Alabama State 2nd Vice President. Karrick was the Founders’ Day speaker and talked about one of the Alabama founders, Olivia Dannelly, who was from Camden and also taught 7th grade English…
by Atmore News access_time4 years ago