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Math skills add up to success for ECMS, RPES students
Students at two local schools have been — literally and figuratively — thinking through their math assignments this year, and their hard work has generated some impressive results. Based on their November success with Imagine Math’s Think Through Math curriculum, the local students claimed six of the 10 top spots in the statewide Alabama Do Math! Pay It Forward contest. Escambia County Middle School’s fourth-graders were the state’s overall winner…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Snow!
A rare series of snow showers that fell Friday night and into Saturday morning across Atmore and Escambia County proved area weathermen wrong and created a virtual Winter Wonderland for local children of all ages. Forecasters had predicted that there was a “slight chance” of wintry precipitation that could include snow falling across the area, but cautioned that locals shouldn’t expect any accumulation of the white powder, even if it…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Bond revoked
An Atmore woman who was arrested in July and accused of doing nothing to stop her mother-in-law from prostituting the woman’s teenage daughter, was back behind bars just 10 days after she finally was able to make bond. Melissa Deann Stoker, 37, spent more than four months in the Escambia County Detention Center before a $100,000 bond was posted on her behalf on November 20. That bond represented a significant…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Downtown revitalization begins
“We’re gonna bring back that theater.” And that, according to Zach Mannheimer, is the beginning for Atmore’s downtown revitalization. Mannheimer is principal community planner with McClure Engineering Company, a Clive, Iowa-based civil engineering firm. He works within “Creative Placemaking for rural communities with the goal of helping them achieve economic and population growth through cultural and entrepreneurial amenities, concepts, and catalytic projects,” he is quoted as saying. According to the…
by Sherry Digmon access_time7 years ago