Atmore News

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Officials of Atmore-based UB Community Development (UBCD) announced recently that a total of $60 million in New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) allocations have been committed, by United Bank and four entities outside Alabama, for the peanut shelling plant being built here. The federal tax credits, $10 million of which were pledged by UBCD, will be a vital component of the financing plan for the…

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Barring any unforeseen problems, the long-awaited start of the Strand Theatre-Atmore Hardware Store renovation and restoration project is just a few weeks away. Officials of Pride of Atmore, the group spearheading the project, reported that they had hoped construction would have already commenced. However, two stumbling blocks forced postponement until next month. First, POA is still a few dollars short of raising enough money…

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer If at first you don’t succeed, try again. That was the case with the Atmore City Council during the panel’s Monday, February 8, meeting. Council members corrected a minor procedural error by “re-appointing” Charles Johnson to replace the late Robert White on the Atmore Board of Zoning Adjustments. The vote was 4-0, with District 3’s Eunice Johnson, wife of the appointee, abstaining. The appointment…

Texas man charged after taking toddler, teen from mother Jonson By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Two children, a teenager and a 3-year-old, were located, safe and unharmed, in Gulfport, Miss. Thursday afternoon, February 4, just a few hours after they were reportedly abducted from an Atmore gas station by a man who is the father of one of the children. Bruice Jyrome Jonson, 58, of San Antonio, Texas, was…

Sothman By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer An Atmore man, apparently knowledgeable about vehicle electronics but apparently not a very good driver, was arrested Monday at a local coin laundry after he reportedly stole the headlights from an Atmore Christian School bus. Police Chief Chuck Brooks reported that 41-year-old Dennis Dean Sothman of a Poarch Road address was taken into custody after an observant patrol officer noticed a Chevy van…