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EA’s season halted by Edgewood
By JOSH FRYENews Sportswriter Escambia Academy’s varsity baseball season came to an end last Friday, April 30, when Edgewood Academy knocked the Cougars out of the 2021 AISA Baseball Playoffs. The Wildcats won 2 out of 3 games in a best of 3 series against the Cougars.During game 1 last Thursday April 29, EA started out slow, but found a way to win after trailing during the top of the…
by Josh Frye access_time3 years ago
Biden’s first 100 days: A failure to lead
Congressman Jerry Carl When President Biden ran for office, he promised to work in a bipartisan manner for the betterment of all Americans. In an attempt to build goodwill, several colleagues and I sent President Biden a letter on his first day in office letting him know we would like a seat at the table on specific issues such as infrastructure and COVID relief, but our requests have been entirely…
by Submitted Article access_time3 years ago
Health order ends May 31
Special to Atmore News Gov. Kay Ivey announced Monday, May 3, that Alabama’s COVID-19 public health order will end Monday, May 31, and the state of emergency will end Tuesday, July 6.“For over a year now, Alabamians, like people around the globe, have made sacrifices and adjusted to a temporary ‘new normal’,” the governor said. “We have learned much since last year, and this is absolutely now a managed pandemic.…
by Atmore News access_time3 years ago
Convicted felon from Atmore arrested in Pensacola
Stark By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore man, convicted several years ago in Mobile County of first-degree robbery, was recently arrested and charged with two weapons violations as he sat in his car outside a Pensacola, Fla. nightclub.Pensacola Police Department reports show that Robert Mario Stark, 28, of a Liberty Street address, was taken into custody April 18 after police investigated the smell of burnt marijuana coming from a…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Council approves land sale for USDA facility
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore’s City Council, sitting one member short, approved during the Monday, April 26, council meeting the sale of a piece of property on Carpet Drive that will be used for a United States Department of Agriculture peanut grading facility.The new facility will reportedly be built on a 5.014-acre site near the Coastal Growers shelling plant that is being constructed along Industrial and Carpet drives. Mayor…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago