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Local investors learn about new Opportunity Zones
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Twenty-one local and area realtors, bankers, timber growers and others spent a little more than an hour at Wind Creek Hotel on February 1 learning the basics of the newest governmental economic development tool. Alex Flachsbart, founder of Opportunity Alabama, filled the group in on the possible tax-deferral and tax-savings benefits of the state’s 158 Opportunity Zones. Opportunity Zones, of which each Alabama county…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Paying their debt
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Back in the days of prison “chain gangs,” inmates who swung sling blades or axes along county and municipal roadsides were said to be paying their debt to society. The days of shackled-together inmate work crews have gone, but many inmates are still paying their societal debt by working outside the razor wire of a state prison compound. Atmore, with a three-facility state prison…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
$600K paving project set
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore City Council members awarded during their January 14 meeting the engineering bid for a massive, city-wide street paving project that will put new surfaces on parts of eight streets. According to documents provided by City Clerk Becca Smith, the total projected cost of the project, including $17,500 for “mobilization and traffic control,” is $645,734. The list of streets scheduled for new surfaces includes…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Garbage pick-up schedule during holidays
The city released the following schedule for garbage pick-up at Christmas. Monday Dec. 24 – Regular garbage pick-up Tuesday Dec. 25 – No garbage pick-up If your garbage pick-up is normally on Tuesday, it will be picked up on Wednesday, Dec. 26. Thursday, Dec 27 – Regular garbage pick-up resumes. Please consider recycling your cardboard during Christmas. Call City Hall (368-2253) or Atmore Public Works (368-4043) for details.
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago
No land for hospital
Lack of motion kills land donation… for now  By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer At the Monday, October 22, Atmore City Council meeting, council members didn’t turn down the proposed donation of 10 acres of prime Rivercane real estate for location of a new hospital. Neither did they vote for the measure. Instead, the four council members present refused to introduce a motion to transfer the land to the Atmore…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago