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Job fair is Thursday
Special to Atmore News The Brewton Career Center is partnering with the Atmore Area Chamber of Commerce to host the inaugural Atmore Area Job Fair on Thursday, September 5, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at The Club, 1927 Highway 21, Atmore. This event is free and open to the public. Participating employers will be recruiting for positions in healthcare, information technology, aerospace, cyber security, hospitality, retail, communications, manufacturing, corrections,…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago
Crash on Pineville Road
AFD, Nokomis VFD respond to isolated location By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore Fire Department personnel were among the first responders called to the isolated rural scene of an August 29 single-vehicle crash that left a 74-year-old Baldwin County man in critical condition. According to Florida Highway Patrol reports, Melvin Leonce Carpenter was driving his 2002 GMC 1500 northward on Pineville Road, just north of Jake Road, in northwestern…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
RPES honored
  Chosen Bicentennial School of Excellence By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer When Rachel Patterson Elementary School was selected a year ago as one of 200 Bicentennial Schools in Alabama, the school was required to use its accompanying $2,000 grant to fund a community betterment project. That project, along with the successful implementation of it, has earned the school even higher accolades. RPES was selected as one of 21 Alabama…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
3 hurt in S. Main, Craig collision
News Staff Report Three people escaped with only minor injuries after a two-vehicle collision Friday afternoon on South Main Street. The wreck happened around 4:20 p.m. when a 2008 Nissan Altima driven by Sereida Ruiz, 20, of Atmore was hit by a 1998 Mercury Grand Marquis driven by 57-year-old Karen Morin of Brewton. According to an Atmore Police Department accident report, Ruiz was headed north on South Main, and Morin…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago
Road, bridge repair funds possible
Council approves gas-tax projects list By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore City Council members gave unanimous approval to two measures in preparation for receiving future funding from two separate road and bridge repair and improvement initiatives. Councilors adopted a transportation plan that will allow them to apply for the next round of funding from the Rebuild Alabama Act and authorized the city’s engineering firm, Civil Southeast, to make application…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago