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Cougars stump the Chiefs
By LEXXI BAGGETT News Sports Writer What the Northview Chiefs were hoping for obviously did not happen Friday night. In what has become a great rivalry, neighboring school Escambia Academy upset the Chiefs on the Chiefs’ home turf, with a score of 41 to 14. A packed stadium on both sides and standing fans all around both ends enjoyed the evening, but for the Chiefs, the defeat was disheartening. Not…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago
Miss Tippytoe passes away
By NANCY KARRICK AND SHERRY DIGMON On January 22, 2005, the Escambia County Board of Education gave Cindy Johnson permission to try her Redemption’s Promise Ministry (RPM) in several of the county’s elementary schools. This was just a trial period to see how things would go. That “trial period” was the beginning of a ministry that has touched thousands of school children’s lives. For some it’s the only “church” they…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago
‘Mockingbird’ coming to GECA
Rehearsals are under way for the Greater Escambia Council for the Arts production of “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Show dates are September 28 – October 1, and October 5 – 9. Curtain time is 7 for night shows and 2 for Sunday matinee. Tickets, available at Atmore News, 128 S. Main Street, are $7 for GECA members, $10 for non-members. Shown at a recent rehearsal are, from left, Jadon Torres…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago
Obituaries, Week of September 6, 2017
Billy L. Smith Mr. Billy L. Smith, age 56, of Rocky Hill, Ala., passed away Sunday, August 27, 2017 at Mobile Infirmary, Mobile, Ala. He was born in Mobile and had lived most of his life in Monroe County. He worked with G. A. West as a pipefitter foreman in industrial construction. He was preceded in death by his father, Billy Ray Smith and his grandparents, Comer and Ruth Smith…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago