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By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer As expected, Atmore voters overwhelmingly passed a referendum to extend a 5-mil ad valorem tax for local schools. And, as expected, the number of people who voted was overwhelmingly low. Only 128 individuals, representing less than 3-percent of the city’s 4,636 “active” registered voters, bothered to vote in the election, held November 12 at Atmore City Hall. More than 90 percent of those (116)…

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer About 50 people, including men and women wearing campaign caps from World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf War, crowded into Atmore City Hall’s Council Chambers on November 12 for the city’s annual Veterans Day program. The event, which lasted about half an hour, featured prayers for and praise for the veterans, as well as their comrades who have passed on and those…

BOE chair Grissett’s candidacy still up in air By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer The lack of a local Democratic Party chairman could mean that Escambia County Board of Education Chairman Willie Grissett’s name won’t be on the March 3 Democratic Primary ballot. Grissett, who has represented District 5 on the local school board for the past 24 years and has served for the past nine years as the BOE’s…

News Staff Report The City of Atmore and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management will jointly sponsor a Brownfield 101 workshop this Thursday, November 14, at Atmore City Hall. The workshop will include many aspects of recovering brownfields — properties that are either contaminated or thought to be contaminated and usually idle, underutilized or abandoned — that might be made safe for redevelopment. Among the topics to be discussed are…

News Staff Reports An expanded version of Music on Main, featuring a series of indoor and outdoor musical performances for shoppers enjoying extended hours in many stores, will take place next Thursday, November 21, from 5:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. The event promises fun for all ages and allows shoppers to finish last-minute Thanksgiving shopping and to get a jump-start on Christmas shopping while enjoying numerous and varied musical performances…