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Coming back to life
Restaurants, other entities reopen with restrictions By DON FLETCHER and SHERRY DIGMON News Staff Writers Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey loosened last week some of the restrictions placed on businesses and residents under her Stay at Home order. Businesses considered “non-essential,” such as clothing and shoe stores, furniture stores and general retail stores are now allowed to open, with social distancing and occupancy restrictions. The same goes for barber shops, beauty…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
PCI buys new Bloodmobile for Red Cross
Special to Atmore News Porch Band of Creek Indians has made its second major donation within a month that is geared to saving local and area lives. Officials of Alabama’s only federally recognized Native American tribe, which recently donated $1 million to Atmore Community Hospital to help with the COVID-19 pandemic, have now announced the purchase of a new Bloodmobile for the American Red Cross. “The American Red Cross is…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago
Total loss
A track hoe belonging to Lamb’s Dozier Service was gutted April 29 when a fire erupted in its engine compartment. City firefighters were sent at 11:22 a.m. to a location on McRae Street, just outside the city limits, where the construction equipment was ablaze. Because fire engines were subject to bog down in the damp field, the department’s brush truck was used to extinguish the blaze. The track hoe was…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago
ECHS top students
Escambia County High School principal Amy Cabaniss and counselor Ashley Trawick honored the school’s top ten students with a Facebook announcement and a display at the school. Not the way this is usually done, but it’s an unusual end to the school year. Trawick, left, and Cabaniss, right, are shown putting up the display with the top ten students’ pictures. The top ten are, in order from 1 to 10,…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago
Atmore library, Books by Mail program resume operations
APL Director Hope Lassiter By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore Public Library has reopened to the public, although it doesn’t look exactly the same as it did when it shut down about six weeks ago. The changes, mandated by Gov. Kay Ivey’s executive order, are minor, though, considering the value of the facility to students and others who seek its services. “I’m glad we’re back; the public needs us,”…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago