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Amended Safer at Home Order
ORDER OF THE STATE HEALTH OFFICER SUSPENDING CERTAIN PUBLIC GATHERINGS DUE TO RISK OF INFECTION BY COVID-19(APPLICABLE STATEWIDE) AMENDED MAY 21, 2020 WHEREAS Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been detected in Alabama; WHEREAS the appearance of COVID-19 in the State poses the potential of widespread exposure to an infectious agent that poses significant risk of substantial harm to a large number of people; WHEREAS the State Board of Health has…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago
Obituaries, week of May 24,2020
Mary Jane McGhee Mrs. Mary Jane McGhee, age 72, passed away Monday, May 18, 2020 at her home in Atmore, Ala. She was a native and life-long resident of Atmore. She was a member of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians and the First Pentecostal Church of McCullough. She attended the Poarch Creek Sales Center and enjoyed sewing, making quilts, shelling peas and playing bingo. She was preceded in death…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago
Fugitive murder suspect shot, killed by FBI in Atmore
Tobby Wiggins talks with FBI agents from the front door of the mobile home in which he had been hiding. News photo by Ditto Gorme A fugitive murder suspect was shot and killed Wednesday (May 20) in Atmore while Federal Bureau of Investigation agents were trying to take him into custody. James E. Jewell, Special Agent in Charge for the FBI’s Mobile Division, said during a brief Wednesday night press…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Masks from Alto to FFD
News Staff Report Foley Fire Chief Joey Darby learned from his mom, Jackie Darby, that Alto Products in Atmore was making facemask shields. He contacted Alto Wednesday, May 13, about the shields, and Thursday, May 14, he received a donated order of facemask shields to supply all response personnel at the Foley Fire Department. “As I shared with David Landa at Alto, it is great to see a local manufacturer…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago