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‘Fools’ opens this week
A scene from a recent rehearsal with the red cast, from left, Tyler Miller, Sharon Poulsen, Leah Miller, Katherine Eby, Peggy Sunday, Abi Mascaro, Dietrich Bondurant, Trevor Miller, Patty Castleberry and Hannah Mascaro. News Staff Report The Greater Escambia Council for the Arts is presenting Neil Simon’s comedy “Fools” June 16-19 and June 23-26.Never heard of “Fools”? Here’s the synopsis of the show from the publisher’s website – “Leon Tolchinsky…
by Atmore News access_time4 years ago
Former EA coach will take over W.S. Neal program
Fountain Former Escambia Academy head football coach and athletic director Hugh Fountain was named today as the new head football coach and athletic director at W.S. Neal High in Brewton. Fountain’s hiring was announced at a special meeting of the Escambia County Board of Education, held this morning (Monday, June 13) at the school system’s central office in Brewton. Officials of Pike Liberal Arts School in Troy announced two weeks…
by Atmore News access_time4 years ago
Fountain resigns after one week at PLA
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Hugh Fountain’s tenure as head football coach and athletic director at Pike Liberal Arts School (PLA) was a short one. The former Escambia Academy and W.S. Neal football coach, whose signing of a reported five-year contract was announced by the Troy-located independent school last week, has decided not to take the job PLA Headmaster Eric Burkett told Al.com on Monday (June 6) that Fountain…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
Obituaries, week of June 15, 2022
Dorene Margaret Love  Love Mrs. Dorene Margaret Love, age 73, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., formally of Molino, Fla., passed away Sunday, June 5, 2022 in Atmore, Ala. She was born in Albion, Mich. to the late Paul and Cora Edler Smeltzer. She was a Paraeducator at Riverdale High School and a member of River Rock Baptist Church in Murfreesboro. She was a former member and Sunday school teacher at Highland Baptist Church and…
by Atmore News access_time4 years ago
New ECHS coach
Former T.R. Miller assistant to head program Harris By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Vincent Harris, an assistant football coach at T.R. Miller High the past two years, was introduced as the new head football coach and athletic director at Escambia County High School during the Monday, June 6, special meeting of the Escambia County Board of Education. Harris also coached four years at Pleasant Grove High, including the first…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago