Year: 2023

Boyfriend arrested in fatal shooting of 16-year-old ECHS athlete Police placed crime scene tape around the vehicle in which the victim was taken to the hospital. Wilson By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer UPDATED TO CORRECT MOTHER’S NAME An Atmore teen was arrested and taken to an area juvenile detention center after being charged with the fatal Monday night shooting of his 16-year-old girlfriend, a student athlete at Escambia County High…

By Atmore News Staff Ghana-boundAtmore native Dr. Karcheik Sims-Alvarado, noted for her work with TIME magazine, Morehouse College and the Nobel Prize Museum in Sweden, is headed to Accra, Republic of Ghana, in West Africa, to work with the Du Bois Museum Foundation in preserving the home and personal library of W.E.B. Du Bois, an American sociologist, historian, author, editor, and activist who helped create the NAACP. Dr. Sims-Alvarado, a…

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer The Escambia County Board of Education approved during its February 16 meeting the reconfiguration of three Atmore schools, a move that will put all the county’s 4-year-old pre-kindergarten students in the same school and move local fourth graders back into an elementary school setting. The reconfiguration was approved at the recommendation of Superintendent Michele McClung. The student relocation plan will affect Rachel Patterson Elementary…

Military photo-collage courtesy of the Virtual Wall website By BONNIE BARTEL LATINOSpecial to Atmore News The Escambia County High School Class of ‘66 has donated an additional $500 to The Pride of Atmore for a chair at the newly renovated Strand Theater on South Main Street in Atmore. This chair will bear a small plaque on the backrest that will read: SP5 RAYFORD GOHAGIN; KIA in Vietnam, 5-13-69; ECHS CLASS OF 1966. Assigned…