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Alabama businesses approved for federal disaster relief loans

News Staff Report The National Disaster Relief Program is now active for all “Small Businesses” in Alabama, offering loans to those businesses who have suffered or are suffering economic hardship due to the COVID-10 pandemic. The state was added to the eligibility list by SBA on March 21. The program provides working capital loans to help small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture, and most private, non-profit…

FBC hosts prayer meeting

Folks stayed in their vehicles at the prayer meeting By SHERRY DIGMON News Publisher The pastor and congregation of Atmore First Baptist Church invited all to a prayer meeting Wednesday, April 1. In light of social distancing guidelines, everyone who came stayed in their vehicles while church members offered prayers at microphones stationed on the ground level and on the balcony. Pastor Kevin Garrett began and ended the service with…

Deer leaps through print shop window

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Several Atmore citizens, looking for some sort of escape from the daily onslaught of bleak coronavirus-related news, found a brief diversion recently, when a young “button buck” deer crossed several city streets and crashed through the show window of a local print shop. The incident happened March 25 at PCI Printing, 202 North Main Street, which was closed as part of the effort by…

Different kind of church at HBC

Huxford Baptist Church is one of many having drive-in services on Sunday. Shown, on a recent Sunday morning, Pastor Rob Arrant preaches from the front steps to those gathered to hear the Word. the church is located on McCullough Road, just off Highway 21.

You won … or maybe not

By SHERRY DIGMON News Publisher Virginia Sharpless of Atmore got the phone call anyone would love to get – if only it wasn’t a scam. Wednesday afternoon, April 1, she answered her phone to be told she had won $2 million in the Publishers Clearinghouse Sweepstakes. The caller asked if she would be home that afternoon to receive her prize. Well, of course, she’d be there to get a check…

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