Day: June 18, 2025

2 qualify for District 2 council seat By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer As qualifying for Atmore city offices enters its second week, one candidate who initially filed papers to seek the District 1 city council seat being vacated by Webb Nall, will now run instead against District 2 incumbent Jerome Webster.Andreas Grant, who filed qualifying papers last week to challenge Bob Turk for the seat Nall has held for the…

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Gov. Kay Ivey recently signed legislation aimed at curbing gun violence and other violent crimes within the state.The new law imposes stiffer penalties on those who use firearms in the commission of a crime, and on parolees and probationers who are found to be in possession of a gun. It also expands the bail provisions and restrictions of the state’s Aniah’s Law.Senate Bill 119 makes…

Jamal Roberts, accompanied by daughters Harmony and Lyric, is flanked by City Clerk Becca Smith, at left, and Acting Mayor Shawn Lassiter as he shows the crowd the caricature drawn by Kathy Buskett. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Things looked bleak for Atmore’s Bee More Summer Festival last Saturday morning (June 14), as a series of thunderstorms and brief rain showers swept across the community, bringing only a relative handful…

News Staff Report The Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church voted last week to close 27 churches, 26 in south Alabama — including McRae Street UMC in Atmore, Flomaton UMC and Guy’s Chapel in Bay Minette — and one in the Florida Panhandle.Combined with the closing of 20 churches in North Alabama on May 30, a total of 46 United Methodist churches, many that have been inactive for…