Month: March 2024

Sherry Digmon

ECHS honors cheerleaders, football players, community leaders
From left, Coach Harris, Defensive Player of the Year Michael French, Offensive Player of the Year Jamarion Robinson, Most Valuable Player of the Year Lorenzo Arnold Jr. Rev. Michael Wilson, left, and Principal Layton Knight Rev. Harold Askew, left, and Principal Layton Knight Coach and Principal Layton Knight, left, with his family, front, his children, Layton Jr., Lennox, and Laylani; back, wife Chelsea, dad Leo Benjamin, aunt Jennie Ferrell, mom…
by Sherry Digmon access_time9 months ago
Obituaries, week of March 27, 2024
Thomas Earl Hadley Mr. Thomas Earl Hadley, age 59, passed away Monday, March 18, 2024 in Mobile, Ala. He was a lifelong resident of Perdido, Ala. He was a carpenter with many years of service. He enjoyed spending time with his family and was consider to be a “mama’s boy”. His favorite past time was hunting, fishing and sitting back watching a good western. He was preceded in death by…
by Atmore News access_time9 months ago
Still a pulse
Atmore’s high-tech Brown Precision plant ‘mothballed,’ not dead By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Officials of Brown Precision paraphrased American humorist Mark Twain last week, saying that rumors of the local aerospace manufacturing facility’s death are exaggerated. They say the plant still has an economic pulse, although they admit it’s a weak one.Brown Precision, Inc.’s Co-CEO, R. Gregory “Greg” Brown, posted to the Atmore News Facebook page the following statement regarding…
by Don Fletcher access_time9 months ago
VFW Auxiliary wants to ‘Paint Atmore Yellow’
News Staff Report The headline for a story that appeared in last week’s Atmore News contained the incorrect date (May 30) for the community’s designated Vietnam Veterans Day, although the body of the story had the correct date (March 30).Atmore Memorial VFW Auxiliary members announced plans to place yellow ribbons on public buildings and on trees in public parks in the days leading up to the designated day of observance.Auxiliary…
by Atmore News access_time9 months ago
BOE hires Wardrop as new chief accountant
From left, Attorney Kirk Garrett explains a procedural item to BOE member Mike Edwards during the March 14 meeting. BOE member Kevin Hoomes is at right. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer The dissension that evolved last year among members of the Escambia County Board of Education surfaced again last Thursday, March 14. The question then was a new contract for the former superintendent. This time, the subject of the rift…
by Don Fletcher access_time9 months ago