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Lape On Monday, Feb. 15, at approximately 7:22 a.m., Atmore Police Department officers responded to Chevron Gas Station on Highway 21, in Atmore regarding a stolen vehicle. According to police reports, officers determined that a gray Chevrolet Tahoe had been stolen while stationary at the gas pump. Witnesses said a female, later identified as 22-year-old Hayli Dawn Lape of Columbus, Ohio jumped into the vehicle and sped away, damaging the…

Note: A front-page story in this week’s Atmore News announces that the cookoff is set for this Saturday, February 20. Chamber officials announced the postponement about two hours after the newspaper went to press. Atmore Area Chamber of Commerce officials released the following announcement by email at 1:40 p.m. today (Tuesday, Feb. 16):”With the current weather predictions, it looks as though the originally scheduled date (Feb. 20) will be colder…

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Escambia County Healthcare Authority officials reported this week that more than 1,700 people have been administered the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination at the county health department and the county’s two hospitals, with almost 600 individuals having received both doses. An ECHCA spokesman said that through last Friday, February 12, that “approximately 1,290” first-dose inoculations had been administered at Atmore Community Hospital, along…

From left, Buckley Davis chats with Patty Helton Davis and Brett Ward prior to the meeting. By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Although there are still several hoops to jump through and miles of red tape standing in the way, residents of Walnut Hill heard last week from the developer who plans to build a Dollar General store in the rural Florida Panhandle community. Buckley Davis of Thomasville, Ga.-based Teramore…

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey recently signed leases for two of the state’s new, privately owned “mega prison” complexes, including the one to be built in Atmore, but details on when actual construction of the new correctional facility will begin are few and far between. The new prisons are the major component of Ivey’s Alabama Prison Program, which aims to decommission many of the state’s…