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McCullough warehouse goes up in flames
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Firefighters have returned daily to tame fiery flare-ups at the site of a January 31 blaze that destroyed a massive seed warehouse at a McCullough cotton gin. Smoke was reported coming from the warehouse, part of Frank Currie Gin Company, around 12:45 p.m. on January 31. The burning cotton seed has continued to combust, long after the major flames were quelled by volunteer firefighters…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Blacksher-Excel turns into wild game
2 fans escorted from gym By JOSH FRYE News Staff Writer A wild ride. Those are the only words that can be used to describe the J.U. Blacksher 48-43 win over rival Excel High School Thursday, January 31. The Blacksher Bulldogs went into the game as the no. 1 seed for the area tournament with 13-6 overall record and 5-0 in area play. The first two quarters of the game…
by Josh Frye access_time5 years ago
AFD tackles simultaneous house fires
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Sirens were a constant sound across the city around daylight last Wednesday, January 30, as firefighters from Atmore, Walnut Hill and Poarch battled two structure fires that erupted just minutes apart. Flames danced inside a mobile home as Atmore Fire Department units arrived at the intersection of South Road and Cross Road, about two miles south of downtown, around 5:50 a.m. Just as AFD…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Paying their debt
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Back in the days of prison “chain gangs,” inmates who swung sling blades or axes along county and municipal roadsides were said to be paying their debt to society. The days of shackled-together inmate work crews have gone, but many inmates are still paying their societal debt by working outside the razor wire of a state prison compound. Atmore, with a three-facility state prison…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Truck sails onto tracks
Driver missed stop sign By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A Century, Fla. woman was seriously injured Monday, February 4, when she apparently missed a stop sign and drove her pickup across fog-shrouded U.S. 31, about four miles east of downtown Atmore, then went airborne, jumped a ravine and landed on a set of train tracks. The driver, Kimberly Kaye Clarke (reportedly “in her 50s”) was taken by ambulance to…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago