Category: Community

Atmore’s Dean Smith was the grand prize winner at the Escambia Academy Show-N-Shine Car Show held Saturday, August 15. Categories were antique car/truck, import, American Muscle, jeep, rat rod. Proceeds from the car show benefit the school.

A retirement reception was held Friday, August 14, for Escambia County Presiding Circuit Judge Dave Jordan at the courthouse in Brewton. Judge Jordan, seated right, is shown with his family, from left, son Coale Jordan, wife Becky, son Matt Jordan, and daughter Jillian Jordan Evans.

The Atmore Area Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting for Staples Photography Friday, August 14. Chamber staff and board members joined the owner for the occasion. Shown are, from left, Brandy Giger, Erin Hankins, Amanda Staples, Thaihee Staples, Breiah Adams, and Anna Norton.

The train caboose that has sat at Rachel Patterson Elementary School for years was moved to Heritage Park Friday, August 7. Bill Williams was in charge of the move. The caboose will be located behind the Peavy-Webb building.

At Rachel Patterson Elementary School’s first day of class, Friday, August 7, nurse Sara Smith, at right, checks the temperature of a student arriving at the school. (Children under 6 are not required to wear a mask.) RP principal Toya McMillian is shown in the center.