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By SHERRY DIGMONNews Publisher The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration is set for Monday, January 15.Concerned Citizens of Atmore “Unity in the Community” and Rho Xi Sigma Alumni Chapiter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. are sponsoring this year’s events.The theme is “Brotherly Love Is the Strongest Advocate for Freedom, Peace, and Justice for All.”Weekend events include the following: • MLK Prayer Breakfast January 13, 8:30 a.m., David’s…

Odom By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Quinton Odom, a senior defensive back for Escambia Academy’s Cougars, was one of two high school football players from Escambia County named to the first team of their respective classification’s All-State squad for 2023.Odom was one of three EA players chosen by the Alabama Sportswriters Association (ASWA) for recognition among Alabama’s best independent school defensive players for the season just past.The 6-foot-7, 190-pound two-way…

Empty-handed juveniles arrested for series of vehicle break-ins By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Six juveniles who broke into a series of vehicles along East Laurel Street last week got nothing but trouble for their trouble.Atmore police reported December 19 that the six teens — all between the ages of 14 and 17 —were taken into custody after officers spotted “several suspicious people” in the city street’s 700 block. Four of…

Principal Forrest Jones in front of ECMS By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Escambia County Middle School Principal Forrest Jones, who took over the reins of the struggling school in April 2022, said there’s no real secret behind the impressive score ECMS received on its latest state report card.“There’s no magic to it,” Jones said. “It’s just the teachers in the classroom, teaching. That’s the biggest thing.”ECMS posted one of the…

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer From the early 1940s until the mid-1970s, thousands of men and women across the country put their high school educations on hold and joined the nation’s military effort during three major conflicts.Instead of marching across a stage to receive a diploma, these individuals were either marching across Europe and the Pacific to take on Germany, Japan and their allies in World War II, or marching…