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WSD to stay on Pensacola Avenue
News Staff Report Last week, Atmore Area Chamber of Commerce solicited input from the community on whether the city’s annual Williams Station Day celebration should be relocated downtown or if it should remain in its current location on Pensacola Avenue. Chamber Executive Director Emily Wilson said Tuesday morning the venue will remain on Pensacola Avenue. “There was never an intent to move Williams Station Day this year,” Wilson said. “This…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago
Resurfacing starts
Short, Howard done; council wants to add Swift Mill to mix By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Motorists in Atmore came to the full realization this week that a $600,000-plus, eight-street resurfacing project — which could become a nine-street project — is now under way. Four city council members voted during their June 10 session, for which Mayor Jim Staff and District 5 rep Chris Harrison were absent, to ask…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Accused embezzler cops plea
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer An Atmore woman, charged more than two years ago with embezzling money from her employer, avoided possible jail time this week by accepting a plea to a lesser charge. Jamie LeAnne McCoy, 35, was initially charged with first-degree theft of property. Court documents show that Circuit Judge Jeff White accepted on June 10 her guilty plea to one count of third-degree theft of property.…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago
$1 million bond
Atmore man charged with trafficking in pot By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A 65-year-old resident of Atmore’s Point Escambia senior housing complex remained in the county jail this week, held under a $1 million bond and facing mandatory prison time, after his arrest last week on marijuana trafficking charges. State narcotics agents, backed by city police officers and county sheriff’s deputies, executed a search warrant June 3 on the…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Obituaries for week of June 9, 2019
Mildred Day Jones Mrs. Mildred Day Jones, age 94, of Atmore, Ala., passed away Tuesday, June 4, 2019 in Atmore. She worked as a manager of fabric department at T.G. & Y and was a supervisor at Vanity Fair Mills. She was born in Covington County, Ala. to the late John Bernard and Vera Dreadin Day. She was preceded by her parents; husband, David Freeman Jones; three brothers, Joel Day, Winston…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago