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2019 in review, Part 1
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A proposal to form a municipal school system, the ongoing uncertainty over the location of a new hospital and two incidents that brought a degree of infamy to the community were among the top news stories in and around Atmore during the first six months of 2019. City schools The first public meeting on a proposal to pull Escambia County High School, Escambia County…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Destructive blaze
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A space heater that was left unattended and without a clear area around it, is being blamed for a Christmas Eve fire that gutted a Brooks Lane residence. “The presumptive call is that it was caused by a space heater left too close to the furniture,” said Atmore Fire Department Capt. Jeremy Blackmon. Firefighters from Atmore and Poarch Creek fire departments gained control of…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Federal complaint
City school system organizers ask Justice Dept. to intervene By DON FLETCHER and SHERRY DIGMON News Staff Writers Organizers of an effort to have the three public schools in Atmore “secede” from the county school system and form a system of their own say they have waited long enough, and their patience has worn thin. Loumeek White, president of Atmore Citizens for Change, filed Monday, December 30, on behalf of…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Obituaries, week of December 29, 2019
Charles Thomas Brown, Sr.  Mr. Charles Thomas Brown, Sr., age 79, passed away Wednesday, December 25, 2019 at his home in Atmore, Ala. He was a native of Lottie, Ala. and had resided in Atmore for the past twenty years. He retired from Standard Furniture with over fifty three years of service. He was an avid outdoorsman, loving to fish and hunt. He was preceded in death by his parents,…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago
Astound PT has HydroWorx!
Lena Hardy is always looking for ways to better serve her physical therapy patients. She recently added an incredible piece of equipment at Astound Physical Therapy. Here you’ll find the only HydroWorx Water Treadmill in Escambia and Mobile counties. A water treadmill? Well, it’s actually a freestanding underwater treadmill. This is how it works. The patient enters the tank which fills with warm water to a specified level. Depending on…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago