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Special to Atmore News TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Business announced Gary Fayard is one of six business professionals for induction into the Alabama Business Hall of Fame. The 2019 inductees will be honored in an evening celebration Thursday, November 7, at Haven in downtown Birmingham. As chief financial officer and executive vice president of The Coca-Cola Co., Fayard helped the company double its revenues…

It’s boots, chaps, cowboy hats for local 9-year-old rodeo rider By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer “Well, it’s bulls and blood; it’s dust and mud; it’s the roar of a Sunday crowd It’s the white in his knuckles, the gold in the buckle he’ll win the next go ’round It’s boots and chaps, it’s cowboy hats. it’s spurs and latigo It’s the ropes and the reins and the joy and…

News Staff Report Wind Creek Hospitality officially celebrated last week the $15 million “rebranding” of the former Sands Casino Resort in Bethlehem, Pa., the most lucrative property in the Poarch Band of Creek Indians gaming portfolio. Celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse, who owns three restaurants in the new complex, was on hand for the grand opening of Wind Creek Bethlehem, into which WCH plans to invest nearly $200 million in new…

All in a day’s work for AFD By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer The morning of Thursday, October 10, was a quiet one around Atmore’s fire stations. Around noon, all that changed. Before the day ended, AFD personnel had been involved in fighting a fire that swept across a patch of rural woods, helping out with a local school’s fall festival, assisting with the extrication of a wreck victim trapped…