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Price of progress
Heavy trucks not causing problems on city streets …yet Paving crews lay asphalt on Howard Street during the city’s 2019 resurfacing project. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A significant increase in the number of heavy trucks hauling construction equipment and materials to the numerous construction projects ongoing within Atmore apparently hasn’t had a negative effect on city streets. Yet.“Our streets are in pretty good shape right now,” said Calvin Grace,…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Williams, Sims named to ASWA All-State teams
By JOSH FRYENews Sportswriter Two local high school student-athletes gained 2020-2021 Alabama Sports Writers Association (ASWA) All-State basketball team honors Sunday, March 28.Escambia County High School junior Sheldon Williams was selected to the ASWA AHSAA (Alabama High School Athletic Association) Class 4A second team.Escambia Academy junior Landon Sims gained AISA (Alabama Independent School Association) third team accolades.According to ECHS athletic director Scott Mason, Williams is more than deserving of the…
by Josh Frye access_time5 years ago
Drug dealer paroled, murderer denied
Taylor Allen By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer While a former East Brewton drug dealer was granted parole during recent hearings by the Alabama Bureau of Pardons & Paroles, another Escambia County man, convicted more than a quarter-century ago of murder, found out he will spend at least 25 more years behind bars.Jemartin Tarell Allen, 38, was able to walk out of Kilby Correctional Facility after the board decided that he…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Atmore News credited with helping reunite runaway, family
Bundrum By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A Daphne teen who left a Baldwin County diversion center March 16 without permission was found safe and sound in Georgia and is now back in the care of relatives.Rebekah Bundrum, 15-year-old runaway, turned herself in and called her mother around 4 p.m. March 23 after reaching Cartersville, Ga., said her aunt, Deanna Simpson, who credited Atmore News with helping safely bring to an…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Chain-reaction wreck leads to power outage
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore man, charged with driving his pickup while reportedly impaired, started a March 27 chain reaction that eventually involved two other vehicles and a utility pole.The alcohol-fueled series of vehicular collisions, which started between 8:30 p.m. and 9 p.m., left most of downtown Atmore and the city’s northwestern quadrant without power for more than an hour.Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks said this week that…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago