Author: Atmore News

Special to Atmore News Escambia County High School student Olivia Simmons is among the students who were selected to participate in a tour of the nation’s capital during June. The Washington D.C. National Rural Electric Youth Tour, sponsored by local electric cooperatives, the Alabama Rural Electric Association and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, is part of a grassroots program to educate high school juniors on the electric cooperative program…

News Staff Report Sixteen young ladies are participating in this year’s Distinguished Young Women program to be held in July. They represent all five high schools in Escambia County: Escambia Academy (EA), Escambia County High School (ECHS), Flomaton High School (FHS),T.R. Miller High School (TRM), and W.S. Neal High School (WSN). Contestants are as follows: Chelsea Black, FHS; Chloe Carden, FHS; McKenzie Faulk, FHS; Sarah Grace Gerety, TRM; Christiara Jones,…