Icy sculpture
Grover Barnes, a Point Escambia resident, used his garden hose to help transform these small trees into an ice sculpture during the sub-freezing overnight temperatures that lingered locally for three days.
Google buying Chromebooks for ACM
When Kellie Steele left A.C. Moore Elementary School to begin the recent Christmas break, she probably had an inkling that there might be a few nice presents in store for her. But one gift caught her almost totally by surprise, even though it was near the top of her wish list. Steele, first-year media specialist at the local elementary school, was notified two days before Christmas that internet giant Google…
Teens hurt in wreck
Three teenage women, including an Atmore resident, were taken by ambulance to area hospitals after a two-vehicle crash Thursday afternoon (Dec. 5) at the junction of Carver Avenue and Pouncey Road. According to Alabama State Trooper reports, the collision happened around 12:05 p.m. when 18-year-old Tiffany Joann Hardy of Brewton was driving a 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt along Carver Avenue and failed to yield the right-of-way at the point Carver ends…
Home from the war – Body of former Atmore resident laid to rest
Henry Sollie has finally come home from the war. Sollie, a Marengo County native who grew up in Atmore, was one of 429 U.S. servicemen who died when the USS Oklahoma was sunk by Japanese torpedoes during the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. His body had lain in an anonymous grave at Punchbowl, the national cemetery in Honolulu, since it was recovered from the ship’s wreckage, a…
Inmates recaptured One released with bogus papers
Bobby Junior Campbell, a former inmate at G.K. Fountain Correctional Facility who was released in November from Barbour County Jail after presentation of a fake court document, was recaptured last Thursday (Dec. 5) in Montgomery. According to Alabama Department of Corrections officials, Campbell was classified last week as an escapee when the paper that authorized his release was determined to be bogus. Based on that document, he was transferred from…