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By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore City Council, sitting two members short, accepted bids from a Mobile firm to conduct the city’s planned 21-street resurfacing project and from a Flomaton firm to handle the widening of Carpet Drive.The council also approved a request from Atmore’s Yellow Hats Society to name the road in front of the pool at Houston Avery Park “George Mosby Drive” after the legendary Escambia County Training…

Boyfriend arrested in fatal shooting of 16-year-old ECHS athlete Police placed crime scene tape around the vehicle in which the victim was taken to the hospital. Wilson By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer UPDATED TO CORRECT MOTHER’S NAME An Atmore teen was arrested and taken to an area juvenile detention center after being charged with the fatal Monday night shooting of his 16-year-old girlfriend, a student athlete at Escambia County High…

By Atmore News Staff Ghana-boundAtmore native Dr. Karcheik Sims-Alvarado, noted for her work with TIME magazine, Morehouse College and the Nobel Prize Museum in Sweden, is headed to Accra, Republic of Ghana, in West Africa, to work with the Du Bois Museum Foundation in preserving the home and personal library of W.E.B. Du Bois, an American sociologist, historian, author, editor, and activist who helped create the NAACP. Dr. Sims-Alvarado, a…

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer The Escambia County Board of Education approved during its February 16 meeting the reconfiguration of three Atmore schools, a move that will put all the county’s 4-year-old pre-kindergarten students in the same school and move local fourth graders back into an elementary school setting. The reconfiguration was approved at the recommendation of Superintendent Michele McClung. The student relocation plan will affect Rachel Patterson Elementary…