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Golf tourney raises scholarship funds
Special to Atmore News The University of Alabama Escambia County Alumni is holding the 15th Annual Walter Lewis Golf Tournament Thursday, Sept. 13, at Juniper Creek Golf Course, the former Country Club of Brewton. This event raises money for local scholarship funds, benefitting students in Escambia County, Alabama exclusively. Since 1995, the Walter Lewis Endowed Scholarship Fund has awarded over $75,000 to outstanding area high school seniors to help pave…
Northview falls to Vernon
By LEXXI BAGGETT News Sports Writer I am certainly hoping that this past Friday night is not setting up the norm for the Northview Chiefs football season this year, especially when Northview has so much senior leadership. True Northview fans are staying the course, however, to see those wins. Fortunately, Friday night at Tommy Weaver stadium, the beginning was just a Kick-Off Classic against Vernon. Vernon trumped both Northview’s junior…
Making ACH safer
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Although Atmore and Escambia County hospital officials plan to build a new medical facility in the near future, they have taken steps to make the existing facility a safer one. The local hospital is currently undergoing a two-phase renovation project, the first phase of which will segregate patients seeking outpatient treatment from patients who are waiting to be treated by ACH’s emergency department staff,…
Criminal charges unlikely in recent stabbing
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Chances are that no one will be charged in connection with the August 7 stabbing of a local man who apparently provoked his alleged assailant into using the weapon against him. Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks said during an August 13 interview that city investigators had turned their investigative file over to District Attorney Steve Billy and asked him to decide whether or not…
Pilger Chevrolet in town
  By SHERRY DIGMON News Staff Writer If Jason Pilger had to describe his life right now, he might use the word “chaotic.” Pilger took over ownership of Chuck Stevens Chevrolet in Atmore last Wednesday, August 15. Atmore is a good fit for Pilger. He lives in Mobile and has a hunting camp in Camden. He said Atmore is just about a halfway point for him. The weeks leading up…