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PHD Realty opens scholarship applications
For the fourth consecutive year, PHD Realty announces the PHD Realty Determination Scholarship for 2020. This year, two $500 scholarships will be awarded to qualifying seniors who plan to attend technical school or college full time in the fall. To be eligible, students must attend high school in Escambia County, Alabama or Escambia County, Florida. The student must have a minimum grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale…
Nicholas joining ECIDA
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer After six years with Coastal Gateway Economic Development Alliance, the last nine months as its interim director, Jess Nicholas is hanging out his own shingle. Nicholas worked on the deals that eventually brought Brown Precision to Atmore, Provalis to Brewton and many other industrial concerns to the five-county CGEDA service area. The Monroe County native said he had hoped to continue the work of…
The ACS science fair
Forty-two students. Forty-two science projects. Here was everything you wanted to know about how fast different types of chocolate melt, to the benefits of having worms in your soil, to the germs on your bathroom surfaces (almost too much information there). The Atmore Christian School science fair was held Monday afternoon, February 17, with awards presented in middle grades and high school for first, second and third. The public was…