Category: Community

News Staff Report Mayfest was set for May 2, but the Atmore Area Chamber of Commerce had to change plans due to coronavirus guidelines. On May 8, the Chamber set the dates for this year’s festival for July 31 and August 1 with the annual softball tournament held both days and the festival on Saturday, August 1. However, last week, the Chamber issued a statement saying the tournament has to…

By SHERRY DIGMON News Publisher If you donate blood with LifeSouth blood services, you’ll automatically be tested for antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 (Corona Virus Disease 2019). Antibodies are proteins that are made in response to foreign substances, or antigens, in your body. Once formed, these antibodies can recognize the foreign substance and help the immune response that fights off diseases. This is not a diagnostic test…

News Staff Report Community Action Agency of South Alabama will receive $1.24 million as part of Community Services Block Grants awarded by Gov. Kay Ivey. The agency serves Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Marengo, Monroe, and Wilcox counties. Gov. Ivey awarded more than $17 million to provide relief for Alabamians who faced unemployment and economic difficulties as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The Community Services Block Grants will be distributed…

Cars began lining up outside Rachel Patterson Elementary School around 6:30 a.m. last Saturday, May 30, as drivers waited to receive boxes of free groceries. Estimates are that more than 600 cars pulled through the school driveway for a share of the 17,000 pounds of food distributed through a donation to Feeding the Gulf Coast. The line of cars stretched to the Assembly of God Church on South Trammell Street…