Day: December 11, 2024

Atmore News

Obituaries, week of December 18, 2024
Douglas Allen Bowen Mr. Douglas Allen Bowen, age 65, of Nokomis, Fla. passed away Monday, December 9, 2024 in Pensacola, Fla.  He was born to James and Gloria Jeanette Byrd Bowen. He retired from Stone Container after many years of service. He enjoyed fishing, grilling, football, and NASCAR. He was preceded in death by his parents and his daughter, Shanna Bowen. Mr. Bowen is survived by his wife of twenty-five…
by Atmore News access_time8 hours ago
Memories of AL’s 5 & 10
by KEVIN MCKINLEY It was a simpler time. The responsibilities of being an adult and the requirements which went with it seemed somewhere over a distant horizon. In those days the shopping center which is now occupied by Ramey’s was very different to what it is today. In the 1970s, when I came along, the building occupying Ramey’s didn’t exist. A bowling alley stood on the site and at the…
by Submitted Article access_time9 hours ago
Attorney: Pastor’s arrest ‘smells of a set up’
Bishop By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Although Alabama Department of Corrections (ALDOC) investigators feel they have a strong case against an Atmore pastor who was arrested Thursday, December 5, on charges of trying to smuggle methamphetamine, marijuana, weapons and other items into Fountain Correctional Facility Annex, the pastor’s attorney said the arrest raises more questions than it answers.“My personal and professional opinion is, the whole thing smells of a setup,”…
by Don Fletcher access_time11 hours ago
Violent weekend
Giles At least six buckshot pellets ripped through the window of a Point Escambia unit. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Hundreds of Atmore residents and visitors enjoyed pre-Christmas events over the weekend, but three local men will never see another Christmas after one of the city’s most violent weekends in recent memory.Atmore police have a suspect in jail for a late-Friday (December 6) shooting at Point Escambia Apartments that led…
by Don Fletcher access_time11 hours ago
Upcoming Christmas events
Band, choir concertThe Escambia County High School Winter Concert will be held Thursday, December 12, 7 p.m., in the ECHS Hodnette Auditorium. Featured will be the ECHS Choir, Escambia County Middle School Concert Band, and the ECHS Wind Ensemble. Admission is free. Suggested donations are $4 for adults, $2 for students.GECA Christmas playThe Greater Escambia Council for the Arts (GECA) production of “An Enchanted Bookshop Christmas,” concludes this week. Show…
by Atmore News access_time11 hours ago