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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_time7 years ago
Public schools to host conferences Thursday
All Escambia County Schools will host their Spring Parent / Teacher Conferences after the early dismissal of students on Thursday, January 7, from 1:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Each school will host sessions or activities for parents that may include information about what students are learning, how to interpret student testing reports, filling out the FAFSA, and many other topics important to parents. There will also be surveys for parents…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago
Truck misses stop sign, sails onto train tracks
The driver of a 2007 Chevy pickup was reportedly seriously injured this morning around 6 a.m. when she missed a stop sign and drove across fog-shrouded U.S. 31, went airborne and landed on a set of train tracks. The driver, Kimberly Kaye Clark (no age provided) of Century, Fla. was taken by ambulance to a local hospital. Traffic investigators had not determined by midday whether or not the thick fog…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago
Obituaries for the week of February 3,2019
Donald Elliott Strickland           Mr. Donald Elliott Strickland, age 87, of Walnut Hill, Fla., passed away Friday, February 1, 2019 in Pensacola, Fla. He was born in Bratt, Fla. to the late Walker E. and Gladys Wiggins Strickland. He was a member of Walnut Hill Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Willie Marie Amos Strickland; a son, George E. Strickland and…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago
ECHS on failing school list
News Staff Report Escambia County High School has been listed by state education officials as a failing school and has been given an “F” in the second year of using a letter grade to assess the success or failure of individual schools. The grade is particularly tough to take this year since the school has shown overall improvement in other testing. In addition, ECHS has a 93 percent graduation rate…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago