Category: Community

Southern Pine Youth Tour reps, from left, front, Isabella Parmer, Gracie Welch, Tiffany Gookin, Harley Wilson, Abigail Turner, Grayton Coale; back, Andrew Clausell, Noah Jordan, D.J. Nichols, Olivia Warren, Keona Miller, Cole Kelley. Special to Atmore News March 15-17, Southern Pine Electric Co-op took 12 high school juniors to Montgomery to participate in the 2022 Montgomery Youth Tour. While in Montgomery, students heard from motivational speaker Cea Cohen-Elliot and legislators.…

Benjamin Martin of Atmore has been named to the Provost’s List at Troy University for Term 3 of the 2021/2022 academic year.The Provost’s List honors full-time undergraduate students who are registered for at least 12 semester hours and who have a grade point average of at least 3.65.Term 3 includes students at Troy’s campuses in Dothan, Phenix City and Montgomery, along with students outside of Alabama and online.

News Staff Report The Escambia County Board of Education voted unanimously during its March 17 meeting to purchase reading intervention and related programs that will allow the local school district to meet requirements of the Alabama Literacy Act. The purchase, designed to increase reading proficiency for third-grade students over the next six years, includes the reading intervention program, as well as an interactive read-aloud program and professional development for reading…

The Atmore Area Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting for Uptown Salon and Spa Tuesday, March 15. Chamber board members and Ambassadors, friends and family joined the owners and employees for the occasion. Shown are, from left, Jamison Janes, Barbie Gerkin, Melody Presley, Wanda Hughes, Madison Malone holding Ann-Elise Meacham, Shelly Jay, Kiyana Cunningham, Sara Cunningham Smith, Ashley Borders, Anna Ellis, Logan Morris, Erica Findley, Toni Gibson, Zahria McCants,…