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Cougars blank rival Generals; clinch 3rd straight region title
By JOSH FRYE News Sportswriter Daughtry McGhee, Randall Bonds and Christian Crook combined to help Escambia Academy clinch its third straight AISA Class 2A, Region 2 championship last Thursday, October 8, with a 33-0 win against arch-rival Autauga Academy. EA became only the second team in AISA history to register a shutout of a Bobby Carr-coached team. The veteran coach’s only previous shutout loss was in 2006, when his Edgewood…
by Josh Frye access_time4 years ago
Business and school lockdowns don’t work
Bradley Bryne U.S. Congressman The United States is such a big and diverse country with transparent sources of information and data that we are the world’s lab for various policy practices. Take the response to COVID-19. Some states closed down early and hard and stayed that way for a long time. Others were more judicious about their closure, closing later and with less severity, and came out more quickly. Those…
by Submitted Article access_time4 years ago
Bonner joins Complete Care staff
Bonner Special to Atmore News Atmore Community Hospital announced that Lydia Bonner, Nurse Practitioner, has joined the staff of the ACH Complete Care. She will begin seeing patients beginning in December 2020. “We are very happy to have Lydia join Dr. Lundquist-Smith at the ACH Complete Care physician clinic. Her experience will be a huge asset to the clinic and to the Atmore medical community.” Interim Hospital Administrator and Director…
by Atmore News access_time4 years ago
‘Hammer murder’ accomplice denied parole
Crane McGowan By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A former Escambia County resident, serving three life sentences for her part in the crack cocaine-fueled 1994 murders of an Escambia County man and an elderly Conecuh County couple was denied parole for the fourth time during recent hearings by the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles. On July 18, 1994, Dedree Ann Crane, 58, accompanied James William McGowan on a two-county…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
A good helper
On the front page of the September 16, 2020, Atmore News, we ran a picture of folks filling sand bags at the Farmers Market in anticipation of Hurricane Sally. One of those people helping their families was Nicholas Flowers, son of Lonnie and Jennifer Flowers of Atmore. Charlotte Boyle let us know that Nicholas was proud of having his picture in the paper, and he said he likes to help…
by Atmore News access_time4 years ago