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By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer City of Atmore officials announced last week that the city incurred labor and other expenses totaling $5,697.58 in the recent abatement of grass and weeds from 13 properties designated last year as nuisances.City Codes Enforcement Officer Greg Vaughn presented city council members with cost reports on each of the properties during the panel’s March 22 meeting, explaining that the action was taken only after all…

BY JOSH FRYENews Staff Writer The Poarch Band of Creek Indians will aid the State of Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) this week administering COVID-19 vaccinations.According to PCI, 2,240 Pfizer vaccines will be offered Wednesday, March 31, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Thursday, April 1, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Poarch Creek PowWow grounds on Jack Springs Road in Poarch.The vaccination clinic is free,…

Construction worker hit, killed by semi on S. Main By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore police continued this week their examination of the circumstances surrounding the March 26 death of a Georgia man who was killed instantly when an 18-wheeler ran over him as he walked in the southernmost traffic lanes of South Main Street.Police Chief Chuck Brooks said this week that Clemente Terrance Sims, 31, of Iron City, Ga.…

White By JOSH FRYENews Staff Writer Lester Clyde White, 40, of a College Park, Ga., address was apprehended by Poarch Tribal Officers and transferred into county custody Sunday, March 21, according to Escambia County Sheriff’s Office reports,The location of the apprehension is unknown, but White was charged on several counts including resisting arrest, four counts of second-degree criminal mischief, a combined influence charge of drugs and alcohol, second degree possession…

Drug, weapons charges filed after domestic incidents escalate Johnson McCorvey By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Two area men followed similar paths last week, and each got similar results.The men, initially involved in separate misdemeanor domestic incidents that drew city police, both wound up behind bars. They each face numerous felony charges, they each remained in jail as midweek neared, and one of them got to experience the effects of a…