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By Steve Flowers A few weeks back my column illuminated the career and influence attained by our senior U.S. Senator Richard Shelby. In the column and in my book, Six Decades of Alabama Political Stories, I reference the fact that our current senior senator will be regarded as one of Alabama’s greatest U.S. Senators. I consider Lister Hill, John Sparkman, and Richard Shelby in that triumvirate. However, history more than…
by Submitted Article access_time8 years ago
The mystery in Mamaw’s kitchen
By Harvey H. (“Hardy”) Jackson A journey down memory lane. Over the river and through the woods, sorta. Actually, it was a trip along an Interstate Highway that is perpetually under construction (don’t tell me that government can’t create jobs), in and out of suburbs with glittering malls, through a countryside still marked by the path of a tornado, into the Black Belt with its dying little towns – Safford,…
by Submitted Article access_time8 years ago
ECMS needs dance, art instructors
Escambia County Middle School has a nice dance studio, as well as dozens of students who look forward to refining their dance moves. What the school doesn’t have is a qualified instructor who can help make that happen. The mirrored-wall studio does get some use, as Lisa Wells of YoGo Kids in Baldwin County, has contracted to teach yoga classes, and about 30 students have taken advantage of that opportunity.…
by Don Fletcher access_time8 years ago
Obituaries for the week of January 31, 2018
Bobbie Pearson Mrs. Bobbie Pearson, age 80, passed away Monday, January 22, 2018 in Atmore, Ala. She was a native and life-long resident of Atmore. She was a member of the Poarch Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ray Pearson; three sisters, Olen Philyaw, Melbus Roberts and Bonnie Rolin; three brothers, Arthur Rayborn, Julius Rayborn and Hubert Rayborn. Mrs. Pearson is survived by one daughter, Margie…
by Atmore News access_time8 years ago
Semmes man killed in Atmore crash
A Semmes man lost his life when the vehicle he was driving left a roadway just outside Atmore and hit a culvert. Alabama State Troopers reported that the fatal, single-vehicle mishap occurred around noon today (Wednesday, Jan. 31) on North 18th Avenue, just east of Atmore. Troopers reported that Rudolph Reginald Nettles, 62, was travelling south in a 1955 Chevrolet when, for unknown reasons, the vehicle left the roadway and…
by Atmore News access_time8 years ago