Childhood Cancer Awareness
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Children and teachers in First Baptist Church Preschool noted the month Thursday, September 30 with a balloon release. Gold is the color of childhood cancer awareness.
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…
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…
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…
A gym for Huxford!
Funds for rural school’s first-ever PE facility included in BOE capital plan By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer All four principals at the schools in and around Atmore were probably happy with the respective allocation each received as a part of a $6 million capital plan approved September 20 by the Escambia County Board of Education. But one of the four was ecstatic.“To say we are thrilled for the Huxford School…