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No problems as Arts & Entertainment District officially opens
Mayor Jim Staff snipped the ribbon Saturday, June 1, to officially open the city’s new Arts & Entertainment District. Shown from left, Sydney McGhee, Shinora Redmond, Sara Milliken, Sheilo Faircloth, Mayor Staff, Sarah Smith, Laurey Hood, Becca Smith, Eunice Johnson, Shawn Lassiter, Jerry Gehman. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Main Street Atmore Director Shinora Redmond and Mayor Jim Staff were both optimistic in their optimism — although cautiously so —…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 months ago
Dozens learn about fraud, ID theft at SAIL Center presentation
From left in center, James Roberson, who organized the summit, poses with Charlotte Purvis and Mayor Jim Staff, as well as the event’s other speakers. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer More than 100 people, most of them senior citizens, learned how to avoid having their identities or their finances stolen by scammers, as well as some of the tricks the fraudsters, most of whom operate by phone, use to separate…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 months ago
Mule leads city police on low-speed chase across town
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore Police Department reports show that APD patrol cruisers, with blue lights flashing and an occasional blip from a siren, followed a runaway horse from South Presley Street to Brown Street last Sunday (May 26), trying to recapture the stubborn animal, which some witnesses identified as a mule, not a horse. The low-speed chase began when emergency dispatchers relayed reports of a horse trotting…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 months ago
City’s 2nd homicide
APD still in process of notifying family of female shooting victim Dale By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore police have still not released the name of a woman who was shot to death this week (Monday, May 27), reportedly by a man with whom she had lived for several decades, during a predawn domestic incident at a Terrace Street residence.Sixty-two-year-old Fred Dale was arrested without incident and charged with simple…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 months ago
Frye joins ECW as executive administrator
Frye Special to Atmore News Emerging Civil War (ECW) has announced that Joshua Frye is the organization’s new executive administrator.Frye is a former Atmore News employee and Poarch resident.As the executive administrator for ECW, Frye will aid in many different areas of the organization’s day-to-day operations.“Bringing on Josh – who is, himself, an ‘emerging voice’ in the field – is a big step for us, but a natural, necessary part…
by Atmore News access_time6 months ago