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Getting ready for Gordon
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Local public safety officials don’t think the Atmore area will be too adversely affected by Tropical Storm Gordon, which was expected to make landfall as a hurricane Tuesday night, September 4, but those same officials are making ready for the worst. “I think our biggest threat is rain,” Atmore Fire Chief Ron Peebles said Tuesday. “City crews started cleaning out storm drains on Monday.…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
BOE approves personnel recommendations
News Staff report The Escambia County Board of Education approved the following personnel recommendations at the August 16 meeting. Resignation 1. Kemmavia Griffin, assistant principal, Escambia County Middle School, effective July 27, 2018 2. Jamila Russell, social studies teacher, Escambia County Middle School, effective July 26, 2018 3. Courtney Dumas, science teacher, Escambia County Middle School, effective July 31, 2018 4. Rebecca Snyder, elementary teacher, Huxford Elementary School, effective July…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago
Court docket set
News staff report The Twenty-First Judicial Circuit Criminal Docket, September 10 through September 21, has been set, Bert W. Rice, Presiding Circuit Judge. Courtroom One Christina Daniels, TOP/deception, att-CS crime; Roger Anthony Dixon, att-murder; James Larry Johnson, capital murder; Lamarlen Hixon, felon in poss. firearm; Christoper Burtram, sodomy 1st; Jim Jones Smith, att-CS crime; Michael Ray Jackson, TOP/fraud.leasing; Cameron Ray Cosby, TOP; Tonya Yvonne Lee, TOP/fraud.leasing; William Gipson, UPCS; Fred…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago
Popular city postman passes away
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Although Marvin Stallworth has for the past several years served as an ardent ambassador for the U.S. Postal Service as he delivered mail to individuals, families and businesses across Atmore, his unexpected death last week has had a much farther reach than the walls of the local post office. The 54-year-old U.S. Army veteran, for whom the postal service became a second career, passed…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Making ACH safer
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Although Atmore and Escambia County hospital officials plan to build a new medical facility in the near future, they have taken steps to make the existing facility a safer one. The local hospital is currently undergoing a two-phase renovation project, the first phase of which will segregate patients seeking outpatient treatment from patients who are waiting to be treated by ACH’s emergency department staff,…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago