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Special to Atmore News After a two-year break due to COVID, the Poarch Band of Creek Indians will once again celebrate one of its most unique Thanksgiving traditions with its Annual Pow Wow.The two-day celebration, which will be held Thursday, November 24, (Thanksgiving Day), and Friday, November 25, marks the 50th anniversary of the gathering on Poarch’s reservation lands that began in 1971 as a homecoming celebration for Tribal members.Defined…

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore City Council, with two members absent and Mayor Jim Staff taking part in the votes, approved during the panel’s Monday, November 14, meeting the purchase of software for in-car computers and printers that were donated to Atmore Police Department.District 4’s Shawn Lassiter was reportedly snowed in at an out-of-state airport, and District 1’s Webb Nall was sick, causing each to miss the session.The council…

Children, younger adults hit hardest By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer With one eye still on an anticipated resurgence of COVID over the upcoming winter, health officials across the state and nation are now forced to deal with the early arrival of what is already an active influenza season.“This is the highest flu activity that we have seen this early in the season since the 2009 Influenza A/H1N1 pandemic,” Dr. Wes…

Madison By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer The playing field of J.M. Tate High School’s Pete Gindl Stadium in Cantonment, Fla., was recently renamed in honor of one of Escambia County High School’s “Barnes Boys,” a group that put together a streak of 29 straight football games without a loss in the 1940s.The stadium’s playing surface is now officially known as Carl Madison Field in honor of the coaching legend, who…

News Staff Report Members of American Legion Post 90 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7016 will hold a joint flag retirement at the Veterans Monument in front of Atmore City Hall, Friday, November 11, 10 a.m. Seating will be available.Everyone is invited to witness the respectful event which includes the lowering of a “tattered” flag, a six-member flag fold, hoisting of a new flag, and the burning for interment…