Day: November 22, 2023

The Atmore Chamber of Commerce held Music on Main Thursday, November 16, with a number of businesses open after hours for shoppers. Some of the businesses had musicians playing and singing during the evening. Shown, Shawn Williams performs at Atmore Flower Shop on South Main.

Kiana Lowe of Brewton prepares to have her eyes checked at the Alabama Lions Sight mobile clinic that set up shop at the satellite courthouse in Atmore, outside the Escambia County Health Department, on November 17. The T.R. Miller graduate and her mother, Beverly Rodgers, were among those who took advantage of the low-cost vision checkups, which included examinations to determine the need for eyeglasses, changes to eyeglasses, diseases of…

Posing with Huxford Elementary’s new headphones are, front row from left, Kannon Atkins, Kentleigh Bailey, Macey Rackard; back row from left, Andrew Garner, Donald Alexander, Kim Himes, Emeri Ikner, Andy Gartman, Anniston Rolin (in front of Leah Fuqua), Anna Ellis. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore Area Chamber of Commerce board members don’t ride in a reindeer-pulled sleigh like Santa. Neither do they puff on a pipe or slide down…

Seven members of Robinsonville Baptist Church surprised local Operation Christmas Child volunteers November 17 with three carloads of shoeboxes to donate to the holiday initiative. The church, which has a ‘regular attendance’ of about 40 people, delivered 194 of the gift-filled boxes. The local collections ended November 20. Shown from left with the first load, Beverly White, Paige Jordan, Geneva Wearren (in foreground), Randa Peacock (behind Geneva), Rena Graham, Beth…

Kappas at Walmart, from left, Justin Tyson, Anthony Cox, Dr. Vinson Bradley, Harold Dailey, Dr. Ulysses McBride, Alfred Johnson, and Christopher Norman. Special to Atmore News On November 18, members of the Atmore (Ala.) Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi, chartered March 28, 1969, gathered at three local Walmarts for the second year in a row to surprise guests with free groceries. The fraternity members, commonly referred to as “Kappas,”…