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Old friends perform together
Recording artist Gordon Mote was in concert at First Baptist Church Sunday night as part of the church’s 135-year anniversary celebration. Gordon and Pastor Kevin Garrett are friends from junior high school and were in band and chorus together through school. As a surprise to the audience Sunday evening, Kevin sang one song as Gordon accompanied. The two old friends brought the house down.
by Atmore News access_time3 years ago
Sharing our Strand Story
Leslie Henderson and Naomie Rae Lawson By LESLIE HENDERSONSpecial to Atmore News My Mimaw, Gloria Johnson, has a Strand Story. Her Aunt Clione Pugh worked there around the early 1950s and would bring Mimaw with her. They rode the train from Canoe Station to Williams Station. Mimaw remembers watching Aunt Clione get the theater ready to open, sell tickets, popcorn and drinks. The Strand looked a little different back then.My…
by Atmore News access_time3 years ago
Former JUB standout charged in Chevron shooting
Rabb A former three-sport standout at J.U. Blacksher High School, currently a freshman member of the University of Mobile basketball team, has been charged in the August 31 shooting incident at the Chevron station on South Main Street in Atmore. Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks reported this week that 19-year-old Ke’Darieon “KD” Rabb, a resident of Frisco City who earned All-State basketball honors his senior year at JUB, surrendered to…
by Atmore News access_time3 years ago
Obituaries, week of October 6, 2021
Gerald Duane MockMr. Gerald Duane Mock, age 57, passed away Thursday, September 23, 2021, in Eufaula, Ala. He was born in Pensacola, Fla. to Gerald and Carolyn Mock.  He was born in Pensacola, Fla. to Gerald and Carolyn Mock. He was a member of First Baptist Church, Eufaula. He was a graduate of Escambia Academy in Atmore, Ala. and attended Patrick Henry State Junior College to play baseball. He graduated…
by Atmore News access_time3 years ago