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Obituaries, week of June 25, 2025
Geraldine Victoria “Vickie” Mason Ms. Geraldine Victoria “Vickie” Mason, age 62, of Atmore, Ala. passed away Thursday, June 12, 2025. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, June 21, 2025 at 11 a.m. at Zion Star AME Zion Church – Atmore with Rev. Jean Archie and Pastor Rev. Denbray Archie, Eulogist officiating. Inhumation will follow in Fairview Cemetery. Turner Funeral Chapel in charge of all arrangements. Christopher C. Pruitt Mr.…
by Atmore News access_time6 months ago
City races heat up
2 qualify for District 2 council seat By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer As qualifying for Atmore city offices enters its second week, one candidate who initially filed papers to seek the District 1 city council seat being vacated by Webb Nall, will now run instead against District 2 incumbent Jerome Webster.Andreas Grant, who filed qualifying papers last week to challenge Bob Turk for the seat Nall has held for the…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 months ago
Curbing gun violence
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Gov. Kay Ivey recently signed legislation aimed at curbing gun violence and other violent crimes within the state.The new law imposes stiffer penalties on those who use firearms in the commission of a crime, and on parolees and probationers who are found to be in possession of a gun. It also expands the bail provisions and restrictions of the state’s Aniah’s Law.Senate Bill 119 makes…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 months ago
Huge crowd for concert by American Idol winner
Jamal Roberts, accompanied by daughters Harmony and Lyric, is flanked by City Clerk Becca Smith, at left, and Acting Mayor Shawn Lassiter as he shows the crowd the caricature drawn by Kathy Buskett. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Things looked bleak for Atmore’s Bee More Summer Festival last Saturday morning (June 14), as a series of thunderstorms and brief rain showers swept across the community, bringing only a relative handful…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 months ago