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By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Although paramedics from Poarch Creek Indians Fire Department and MedStar EMS eventually took over medical care of a young girl recently pulled from a hotel pool, it was members of the 11-year-old victim’s family who actually rescued her from the pool and got her breathing again.The near tragedy happened Saturday, October 15, just before 4 p.m., at Atmore’s Hampton Inn.“We were having a birthday dinner…

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore City Council members hustled through a single-item agenda Monday (October 24), spending less than 3 minutes in session, from opening prayer to closing gavel.In the only public business conducted by the council during the 2-minute, 42-second meeting, the panel gave a unanimous green light to moving forward with making several eyesore properties more aesthetically palatable and less likely to attract pests.The council action comes…

By RANDY TATANOSpecial to Atmore News Schools can always put extra money to good use, and all three Escambia County high schools got a bonus Monday from a state legislator.State Senator Greg Albritton made the rounds, dropping off checks for $8,000 to each high school. W.S. Neal, Flomaton, and Escambia County High Schools were three of the 13 schools in Albritton’s Senate District to receive the funds. Four local libraries…

Special to Atmore News More than 4,500 locations will open to collect Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts for the Samaritan’s Purse project. Volunteers are preparing to collect shoebox gifts during National Collection Week, Nov. 14 – 21.In Atmore, Grace Fellowship 1412 E. Nashville Avenue, is the drop-off site. Dates and times are as follows:Monday, Nov. 14: 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.Tuesday, Nov. 15: 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.Wednesday Nov. 16:…