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Perdido MS students take first place in economics at state
Special to Atmore News For 14 years in a row, Perdido Middle School students in Ms. Gerri McDonald’s gifted program have taken first place honors in multiple categories in Alabama’s Council on Economic Education program. This is the fourth consecutive year that her students have placed first in the state for the Alabama Economics Challenge, Alabama’s Personal Finance Challenge, America and the Free Enterprise System Essay Competition, and America and…
by Submitted Article access_time6 years ago
Spreading the Word – in heart languages
By SHERRY DIGMON News Staff Writer The video tells the story. A large box of books is opened in a crowd of people. They scramble to get one of them. A man holds his book up, then clutches it to his chest. Then he kisses it. This scene is played out in remote areas around the world. The book is the Holy Bible. The Bible is the best-selling book in…
by Sherry Digmon access_time6 years ago
17 graduate YLA
Future leaders encouraged to ‘be bold, bring down barriers’ By SHERRY DIGMON News Staff Writer Seventeen area high school juniors finished Youth Leadership Atmore with a graduation ceremony and reception Sunday, April 29. Graduates are Joshua Banks, Logan Chavers; Bailey Hayles, president; Anna Grace Janes, treasurer; Christiara Jones; Sam Martin; Jasmine Rivers; Johnika Roberts, vice president; Sara Rolin; Mar’Daizah Salter; Emma Caroline Sasser; Valen Shelly; Arianna Silar; Olivia Simmons, secretary;…
by Sherry Digmon access_time6 years ago
Two injured in bizarre accident on Jack Springs Road
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Statistically, most traffic accidents occur within 25 miles of a person’s home or job. But a two-car collision that happened April 24 just off Jack Springs Road provided a Freemanville man and an Atmore woman with living proof that wrecks sometimes occur a lot closer than that. Kenneth R. Staples, 30, and Margaret Lymon, 60, each were taken by ambulance to Atmore Community Hospital…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
A veteran remembers
By SHERRY DIGMON News Staff Writer The American Legion Auxiliary Post 90 hosted a service to honor Korean War veterans Saturday, April 28, at Heritage Park. Following the reading of a proclamation by Mayor Jim Staff, Judge Jeff White spoke. He began his remarks by reading a list of names: Ples F. Booth, Vivian D. Bryant, James E. Carter, Joseph D. Chancery, Willie D. Daw, Fred Fuqua, Aubrey Godwin, Paul…
by Sherry Digmon access_time6 years ago