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ECHS summer football gets all-clear
By JOSH FRYE News Sportswriter After a long wait, the Escambia County High School football program has been cleared to resume summer training schedule, beginning Monday, June 8. According to ECHS head football coach and athletic director Scott Mason, the Blue Devils received the all-clear to resume summer football training programs last Friday from school board officials and Superintendent John Knott. “We were actually cleared to resume on June 1…
by Josh Frye access_time6 years ago
Poarch cancels 2020 youth baseball
By JOSH FRYE News Sportswriter Poarch Creek Indians officials decided last week decided to cancel the 2020 summer baseball, softball, wee-ball and t-ball seasons due to the uncertainty of the COVID-19 situation. Despite all Poarch Creek baseball diamond activities being closed, players who have already signed up for the 2020 summer season may still have a small glimmer of hope, as Atmore Cal Ripken Baseball League is still hanging onto…
by Josh Frye access_time6 years ago
A more perfect union
Bradley Bryne U.S. Congressman I was a young teenager in the late 1960s, but I remember the riots and violence that occurred around the country, and especially in the large cities. I was concerned that we were headed down that road again with racial violence around the country in the summer of 2016, President Obama’s last year in office. Over the previous several years we had become an extremely divided…
by Submitted Article access_time6 years ago
Atmore woman charged with Kratom trafficking
Coker By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer An Atmore woman remained in the Escambia County jail this week, nearly two months after she was arrested by city police and charged with trafficking in a drug that is legal in 44 states, but not Alabama. Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks confirmed that 43-year-old Nadia Carol Coker was arrested April 6 after a “sizable” quantity of Kratom was discovered inside her residence.…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago