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Atmore’s Christmas parade
Santa arrives! Katelyn Barron accompanied Santa on the FNB&T float. By SHERRY DIGMON News Publisher With an eye to the sky, organizers and participants moved ahead with the Chamber’s Annual Twilight Christmas Parade Saturday night, December 12. About an hour before parade start time, the rain came down. Then it let up. Then it drizzled a little more. But the parade rolled on time – much to everyone’s delight and…
Santa visiting Atmore next week
News Staff Report Apparently arriving in Atmore on his sleigh during the Christmas parade Saturday night, December 12, was not enough for Santa. He’s planning another trip to Atmore next week. Seems that Santa got in touch with the city of Atmore, the fire department, and the police department that he will travel the neighborhoods of Atmore next week before heading back to the North Pole to jump on his…
COVID closure
Contact tracing forces ECHS into virtual format By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writes Round 2 of the COVID-19 pandemic, a surge anticipated by health officials to evolve from Thanksgiving holiday gatherings, has forced Escambia County, Ala., school officials to implement, at least for the final week of pre-Christmas classes, a virtual-only format for Escambia County High School students. A message posted Sunday afternoon, December 13, to the school’s Facebook page…
Obituaries, week of December 13, 2020
Jerry S. Chandler Mr. Jerry S. Chandler, age 74, passed away Sunday, December 6, 2020 at his home in Barnett Crossroads, Ala. He was born in Enterprise, Ala., former resident of Montgomery, Ala. (twenty years) and Flomaton, Ala. (sixteen years) and had resided in Barnett Crossroads for the past twenty-eight years. He loved hunting, fishing and being outdoors. He was former partner with Southern Dust Control of Flomaton, worked with…