Day: September 20, 2023

Sherry Digmon

Raising awareness
By SHERRY DIGMONNews Publisher Jamel Frye is promoting Family and Friends Day next Saturday – but he’s not calling this a fun day. It’s serious business.“I’m asking all pastors who will to have their youth come out,” Frye said. “This is about raising awareness in our community about drugs and violence. We’re in a state of spiritual emergency in our community … I have a serious concern with violence, the…
by Sherry Digmon access_time8 months ago
‘I Can’ at the Strand
By DALE ASHSpecial to Atmore News The recently renovated historic century-old Strand Theatre will present its first “first run” film since the completion of the almost 10-year project. The movie, “I CAN” was requested as early as this summer by two different softball teams in Poarch. Multiple phone calls and several months later, the Strand Theatre, listed on the U. S. Department of Interior’s Historical Registry, is one of only…
by Submitted Article access_time8 months ago
No parole for Foley man convicted here
Foster By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A Foley man, convicted here in February of this year, was denied parole during recent hearings by the Alabama Board of Pardons & Paroles.Joe Fitzgerald Foster Jr. was sentenced to 10 years of incarceration after this conviction on one count of “Other Class C Felony,” according to Alabama Department of Corrections records.Foster had been given credit for serving almost 20 months of his sentence,…
by Don Fletcher access_time8 months ago
Felony arrests
Local man caught with stolen handgun, pills, pot North Hamilton Rudolph Countryman By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore man was arrested September 11 on felony drug and weapons charges after city police stopped his vehicle due to an unspecified equipment violation. Atmore Police Department reports show the traffic stop was conducted around 6:50 p.m., on Jack Springs Road. While talking with the driver, 20-year-old Jaylen North, the officer detected…
by Don Fletcher access_time8 months ago