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Lodge IDs kids
Members of Carney Lodge #549 of Atmore and Grand Lodge of Alabama and a number of volunteers processed identification kits for children during Williams Station Day. They were set up inside the Atmore YMCA building. Program Director Michael (Grif) Griffon with Grand Lodge was one of the people who worked with Danny Lowery with Carney Lodge. You might think an ID kit means just fingerprinting, and you might think the…
by Sherry Digmon access_time7 years ago
Who’s running?
A special December 12 statewide election, primarily staged to fill one of two Alabama seats in the U.S. Senate, will provide political observers with a little excitement prior to the new year. But the three-man statewide senate race and a scattering of contests for other statewide seats will be little more than a warmup to what is almost guaranteed to be a 2018 season of heated and heavily contested state…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Drug abuse accounts for most social ills
Ask most any individual who works within the local criminal justice system what he or she thinks is the biggest catalyst for crime, and each answers pretty much the same. With little hesitation, each agrees that most of society’s ills can be traced back to the use of illegal drugs and the abuse of legal drugs. “In most crimes we have, in some way drugs are a part of the…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Williams Station Day … Brrrrrrr (With photo gallery added)
It’s the same Saturday every year. The date is set. The weather is not. So, we take what comes when Atmore becomes Williams Station for the fourth Saturday every October. This year we had rain and cold and wind – not the best scenario for Williams Station Day, but a celebration of our heritage nonetheless. Opening ceremonies were held in a light rain with temps in the 40s. The rain…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago
Man arrested in thefts – 2 store robberies, 1 truck
An Atmore man was arrested at an October 25 wreck site and charged with the predawn armed robberies of two local convenience stores and the theft of the truck he reportedly used as a getaway vehicle after committing the second stick-up. Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks reported last week that James Ronald Marshall Jr., 18, was taken into custody and charged with three counts each of first-degree robbery and first-degree…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago