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Auditions set for radio drama
The Greater Escambia Council for the Arts will simulate a 1940s radio studio, reading from the script, producing their own sound effects. You don’t have to memorize lines and it’s only a two-week commitment. Auditions will be Thursday, April 27 at 7 p.m. Rehearsals will be Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays for the following two weeks. Show dates are Friday and Saturday, May 12 and 13.
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago
PCI offering hazardous waste collection
Don’t know what to do with that old television? Or electronic device? Or paint cans? Load it up and take it to the Poarch Creek Fire Station #1, 5811 Jack Springs Road this Saturday, April 22, from 8 a.m. until noon. The Poarch Creek Indians Environmental Department is sponsoring a household hazardous waste collection day, and it’s a good time to discard items that other recycling efforts will not accept.…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago
Controlled burn spreads, destroys unoccupied house
Firefighters from Atmore and Poarch remained at 12:45 p.m. Friday (April14) at the scene of a fire that destroyed an unoccupied house at 65 Martin Luther King Drive. Atmore police have one end of the busy street blocked off, while an Atmore Ambulance Service crew is parked across the other end. Traffic is being diverted around both ends of the fire. According to preliminary reports, several individuals were dismantling the…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago
Man loses leg in crash – Wife says rescue from isolated Clarke Co. area was ‘a miracle’
A Canoe man, one of Escambia County’s most noted cotton farmers, is recuperating in a Mobile hospital after he apparently lost consciousness and crashed his motorcycle in northwestern Clarke County last Saturday, April 8. Robert Wiley Farrar Sr., 65, lost a leg to the accident but otherwise suffered only minor injuries, said Susan Farrar, the crash victim’s wife of 10 years. “He’s doing pretty good, considering the circumstances,” she said…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago