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News Staff Report Trick or treaters have two opportunities to gather goodies this Halloween. The Chamber’s Trick or Treat on the Street will be this Friday, October 30, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. City-wide trick or treat will be Saturday, October 31, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The following businesses are participating in Trick or Treat on the Street Friday. Allegiance Apparel Atmore Public Library Busters Hawt Mess…

Lassiter Johnson By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Two new city council members and the city’s new municipal court judge will be among the city of Atmore officials who will be sworn in at the city council meeting to be held next Monday, November 2. The meeting will be a little different than normal council sessions. It will begin at 6 p.m. instead of 4 p.m., and it will take…

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks reported this week that APD detectives are investigating two separate shooting incidents, each of which occurred inside the city limits last Sunday, October 25. A person was wounded in one of the incidents, and investigators are reportedly looking at the case as a possible attempted murder, while details of the other one are almost non-existent. In a press release…

To be built across from Walmart By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer City of Atmore officials confirmed with an “ultra-high degree of certainty” that Jack’s Family Restaurants will build its 11th — and southernmost — Alabama-based fast-food eatery here. Mayor Jim Staff said the deal is all but done, having come down to some minor amendments to the wording of the contract between the city and officials of the restaurant…

Foster Kizer, at left in foreground, and architect Steve Stone of Mobile-based dakinstreet architects, at right, listen to comments from Dale Ash (off camera) during the October 16 pre-bid walk-through of the Strand Theatre and the former Atmore Hardware building, which will soon be restored. Stone and potential bidders joined Kizer, Ash and Cindy Colville for the tour. Bids will be opened November 20, and the renovation project is expected…