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Governor loosens some guidelines A healthcare worker discards packaging a she prepares to take a COVID-19 sample. By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Gov. Kay Ivey announced the loosening of her Stay-at-Home order Tuesday, April 28, replacing it with a Safer-at-Home order in to try and pump some life into Alabama’s stagnant and dormant economy. “While maintaining focus on our personal health, it’s now time that we also focus on…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Drew, Bolden retiring
Drew Bolden By SHERRY DIGMON News Publisher The Escambia County school system suffered a double blow with recent announcements by Assistant Superintendent Beth Drew and Escambia County Middle School principal Debbie Bolden. Both recently submitted their intentions to retire this summer; both were approved at the board of education meeting Tuesday morning, April 28. With more than 37 years in education, Drew has held several positions – classroom teacher, assistant…
by Sherry Digmon access_time6 years ago
Atmore man slain
Stabbed and shot on Patterson Street Dirden By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks said this week that APD detectives are working overtime to identify and bring to justice the person responsible for Saturday’s fatal shooting and stabbing of an Atmore man. Brooks confirmed Saturday (April 25) that the homicide victim is 43-year-old Desmond Deshun Dirden. Dirden, who had died by the time police and emergency…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Atmore police investigating possible homicide
Atmore police are conducting a death investigation after a man was found shot to death early Saturday morning (April 25) at a local apartment complex. “We’re working it as a homicide,” Chief Chuck Brooks said of the death. Details are sketchy at this time, but APD patrols were dispatched around 1:24 a.m. to Patterson Street Apartments, where shots had been reportedly fired. Officers arrived to find the body of a…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago
Obituaries, week of April 29,2020
Aldene Hiebert Schneider Mrs. Aldene Hiebert Schneider, age 86, of Fountain Run, Ky., passed away Friday, April 17, 2020 at NHC Health Care in Glasgow, Ky.  She was born in Kansas to the late Albert and Helena (Ensz) Hiebert. She was a homemaker, LPN and co-owner of a Farm Supply Store in Walnut Hill, Fla. She was a member of Fountain Run Mennonite Church. She was preceded in death by…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago