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Job fair
From left, Leah Fuqua, principal Huxford Elementary School; Lotoya West, director Career and Technical Education; Sabrina Wilson, principal Escambia County Readiness Center. Escambia County High School Assistant Principal Greg Brock, left, and the new ECHS principal, LaTonya Gill, talk with a potential employee (with back to camera). News Staff ReportThe Escambia County School system held a job fair Saturday, June 1, in the Flomaton High School gym. Despite the threat…
by Atmore News access_time2 years ago
Homecoming
Nearly 700 Freemanville residents, former residents attend reunion Nearly 700 Freemanville residents, former residents attend reunion By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Hundreds of Freemanville residents, former residents and their descendants flocked last weekend to the grounds of Mt. Gilead Missionary Baptist Church for their biennial weekend of fun, food and fellowship.This year’s Freemanville Community Reunion, held every two years since 2016 (except for 2020, during the COVID pandemic), brought families…
by Don Fletcher access_time2 years ago
Mule leads city police on low-speed chase across town
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore Police Department reports show that APD patrol cruisers, with blue lights flashing and an occasional blip from a siren, followed a runaway horse from South Presley Street to Brown Street last Sunday (May 26), trying to recapture the stubborn animal, which some witnesses identified as a mule, not a horse. The low-speed chase began when emergency dispatchers relayed reports of a horse trotting…
by Don Fletcher access_time2 years ago
City’s 2nd homicide
APD still in process of notifying family of female shooting victim Dale By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore police have still not released the name of a woman who was shot to death this week (Monday, May 27), reportedly by a man with whom she had lived for several decades, during a predawn domestic incident at a Terrace Street residence.Sixty-two-year-old Fred Dale was arrested without incident and charged with simple…
by Don Fletcher access_time2 years ago