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Special to Atmore News United Bank’s President and CEO Robert R. Jones, III announced July 12 that United Bank has been awarded the 2017 Bank Enterprise Award (BEA) by the U.S. Department of Treasury. Administered by the Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) Fund, the BEA program provides monetary awards to banks that have successfully demonstrated an increase in their investments in census tracts with at least 30 percent of residents…

The Alabama Department of Revenue Back to School Sales Tax Holiday is this weekend. The tax-free period will begin at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, July 20, and will continue through midnight Sunday, July 22. Below are documents provided by the Alabama Department of Revenue, identifying taxable and non-taxable items. For more information, visit www.revenue.alabama.gov.

Special to Atmore News Atmore First Assembly of God will have a special speaker this Sunday, July 22, at 11 a.m. – Chad Prewett. Many will remember Prewett from his coaching days at Escambia Academy. Now he’s in the higher echelons of the coaching staff at Auburn University. Prewett is entering his fourth season on head coach Bruce Pearl’s staff and his first after being promoted to director of basketball…