Month: July 2023

Resident escapes unharmed A firefighter prepares to enter the home for a final check around 6:30 a.m. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A local woman escaped without injury while city firefighters spent more than two hours fighting a predawn fire that destroyed the woman’s Peachtree Street home Monday morning, July 17.Atmore Fire Department reports show the first wave of city firefighters was dispatched at 4:52 a.m. They arrived five minutes…

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Stores in Atmore and each of the surrounding taxing entities (with the possible exception of one) will apparently take part in Alabama’s 18th annual Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday, which will be observed across the state starting at 12:01 a.m. this Friday, July 21, and continuing through midnight Sunday, July 23.According to the Alabama Department of Revenue (ADR) website, officials in Atmore, Brewton, East Brewton and…

Special to Atmore News The Railway Arts Guild and Pride of Atmore will present “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” July 27-30 at The Strand Theatre. Evening shows are 7 p.m. with Sunday matinee at 2 p.m.Directed by Ellen Johnson, “Charlie Brown” is a musical based on the Charles Schultz comics and follows the Peanuts gang as they struggle with homework, play baseball, swoon over crushes, and celebrate friendship. Featured…

Dean By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore man, accused of stealing more than $5,000 from several different Lowe’s outlets in and around Pensacola, Fla., remained behind bars in the Sunshine State as this week began.According to Escambia County (Fla.) Sheriff’s Office reports, 32-year-old Jared Thomas Dean of a Beck Street address apparently decided to “do it right for less.”Dean simply walked out of several Lowe’s stores without paying for…

Taylor By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Northview High School’s former head basketball coach, most recently a physical education teacher and assistant coach at a Pensacola high school, was arrested July 9 on several charges, including felonious assault, after he allegedly attacked an ex-girlfriend.Michael Taylor, 48, who lists a Pensacola address, is charged with one count each of aggravated assault with a weapon (felony), domestic battery by strangulation (felony), misdemeanor cyberstalking…