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Market in the Park

Atmore Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual Market in the Park will get under way on Saturday, June 10, from 7:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Heritage Park. Local and area produce and vegetable growers, bakers, canners, growers of plants and others will be selling their wares. More vendors are needed. To become a vendor or to get more information, call 251-368-3305.

Court docket set

The Twenty-First Judicial Circuit Criminal Docket has been set for June 12 through June 16 jury term. Courtroom one Jaquan Monte Powell, trafficking – cocaine; Shelton Forney, trafficking –synthetics; Pete Anthony Jimenez, TOP 2nd, RSP 1st x 4; Roman David Peirce, sex abuse child <12; Taconius Stallworth, UPCS; Benton Bell, trafficking – meth, RSP 2nd, RSP 1st, Crim. use defense spray; Lee Ernest Watson, UPCS; Joseph Montreal Kiser, UPOM 1st;…

Students attend HOBY

Sophomore students from Atmore joined 280 other sophomore students from all over the state of Alabama during the Hugh O’Brian Youth leadership seminar at Troy University May 26-28. Shown are, from left, Emma Caroline Sasser and Sara Rolin from Escambia Academy, and Pia Gorme from Alabama School of Math and Science. Not pictured is Olivia Simmons from Escambia County High School. News photo by Ditto Gorme

Annual Windham celebration is Friday

The Kathryn Tucker Windham Museum and Library is pleased to present the 2017 Kathryn Tucker Windham Annual Celebration of Memories on Friday, June 2, on the Thomasville Campus of Coastal Alabama Community College. This year’s celebration includes Kathryn Tucker Windham Museum Tour along with the following: * Kathryn Tucker Windham’s daughter, Dilcy Windham Hilley, will tell “Stories from Mother’s Kitchen” in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of Windham’s first book…

Former school employee arrested

A former employee with the Escambia County Board of Education has been arrested and charged with having sexual contact with a student under 19 years of age. On Friday, May 26, the Escambia County Sheriff’s Department arrested Jason Paul Blaney, 38, address 4884 Highway 4 in Florida. At the time of the reported incident, Blaney was an employee of the Escambia County Board of Education. He resigned in April from…