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By SHERRY DIGMON News Publisher The Escambia County Board of Education met in special session Friday morning, July 12. The meeting was routine other than one personnel item. Board member Mike Edwards said the resignation of Elementary Curriculum Supervisor Nicole Spottswood concerned him. “This board is dismantling the effort to move forward,” Edwards said, referring to the “two to three past years.” “Teachers don’t want to return to policies as…

Feds apparently dropped ball after convicted bank robber served 10 years Jeter By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A notification error on the part of federal authorities was apparently responsible for the June 18 arrest of Chad Floyd Jeter, an Atmore man who served 10 years in prison after his 2009 conviction for the robbery of Atmore’s First National Bank & Trust.Escambia County Detention Center records show Jeter, whose arrest was…

Digmon In last week’s article, I talked about deputies seizing my cell phone – a personal phone also used for business. Not sure it’s entirely legal to seize a journalist’s phone since we sometimes deal in confidential information. But that’s another legality (or illegality) to look at another day.So, Deputy Arthur Odom and another deputy seized my phone on Monday, October 23, 2023. Four months later, I obtained a document…

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore officials and the official in charge of Waste Pro’s privatized solid waste collection operations within the city said during the Monday, July 8, city council meeting that despite a few bumps along the way, the first day of collection within the city went smoothly.Chris Walker, the city’s economic planner, said he had received several calls during the day, most of them from residents who…

Craig Duckworth Williams Shields By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) officials arrested a former G.K. Fountain Correctional Facility (Fountain) security guard and three Mobile-area residents last week in separate schemes to smuggle contraband into the facility.The first arrest came July 4 when Shaquasia La’Sha Craig, 33, of Evergreen, at the time a security guard at Fountain, was arrested by ADOC Law Enforcement Services Division (LESD) officers…