Bar raided, more than 35 arrested, UPDATED
Sunday night, March 7, the Alabama ABC Board Enforcement Division raided a bar on Etheridge Drive, north Atmore, around 7:30 p.m., and arrested about 37 people. ABC agents were assisted by the Atmore Police Department and the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office. SEE BELOW FOR UPDATE! Charges were connected with the sale and consumption of alcohol in this bar on Sunday. Drug charges are pending. Two firearms were confiscated. The patrons who tested positive for alcohol consumption inside the bar were transported to the county jail and booked....
Chamber presenting Lunch ‘N Learn session on networking
The Atmore Area Chamber of Commerce is presenting a Lunch ‘N Learn session Thursday, March 11, noon, in the Mayson Auditorium at Atmore Community Hospital. Guest instructor LaKesha Womack, business consultant with the Women’s Business Center, Inc., will discuss How to Use Social Networking for your Business. Whether you are just getting started with Facebook and Twitter, or you want to take your online networking to the next level, LaKesha can answer all your questions. Feel free to bring your laptop (wireless card) and she’ll help you get started (net)working. The cost is $5.50 for lunch (sandwiches, chips, dessert, drink). Please call ...
Cougars open baseball season with a double header
The Escambia Academy Cougars opened their baseball season with a double header against Southern on Tuesday. Coach Dauget told his players before the game began,” This is where it begins, let’s play some baseball.” The first game began at 1 p.m. during school, which gave most of the school the opportunity to watch the Cougar’s first game. Junior Keaton Maher took the mound for EA. Maher struck out three of the first nine batters in the Southern rotation. In the 3rd inning, Southern managed to produce the first points of the ...
Obituaries for the week of March 10, 2010
Gladys Wise Frazier Mrs. Gladys Wise Frazier, age 91, passed away Wednesday, March 3, 2010 in Atmore, Ala. She was a native of McCullough, Ala. and a lifelong resident of Atmore. She attended the First Baptist Church. She was an employee of Vanity Fair Mills during the war, an employee of the Tot Shop for over 35 years and a member of the Ladies Auxiliary at Atmore Community Hospital. She was preceded in death by her husband of sixty-nine years, Cliff Frazier, and a daughter, Marilyn Frazier Weir. Mrs. Frazier is survived by: two sons, Charles and Patsy Frazier of Evergreen, Ala., and ...
12 Angry Jurors
It’s a cliché to say “I never cease to be amazed,” but I never cease to be amazed at the Greater Escambia Council for the Arts productions. Twelve Angry Jurors, performed Friday and Saturday nights and Sunday afternoon, was true to GECA form. It did not disappoint. I had seen bits and pieces of the play as I dropped in during rehearsals to shoot pictures, so I had heard some of the dialogue and had seen some of the acting. The emotions ran high even during rehearsals. But doing three shows of ...
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Bar raided, more than 35 arrested, UPDATED
Sunday night, March 7, the Alabama ABC Board Enforcement Division raided a bar on Etheridge Drive, north Atmore, around 7:30 p.m., and arrested about 37 people. ABC agents were assisted by the Atmore Police Department and the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office.
SEE BELOW FOR UPDATE!
Charges were connected with the sale and consumption of alcohol in this bar on Sunday. Drug charges are pending. Two firearms were confiscated.
The patrons who tested positive for alcohol consumption inside the bar were transported to the county jail and booked….
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$500 offered for arrest of car thief
The Atmore Police Department has issued an arrest warrant for Amanda Andrews. According to the owners of Brother’s Auto Sales on North Main Street in Atmore, Andrews visited the car lot earlier this week. She seemed interested in a black Acura TL and asked to test drive the vehicle. She never returned with the car.
Law enforcement officials checked security cameras as gas stations in the area. Andrews left the lot at 4:45 p.m. and at 5:03 p.m. she was appeared on video at the Jack Springs Road Citgo …
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Federal Warrant Served on Preyear’s Tax
At 9 a.m., Thursday, March 4, a federal search warrant was served on the Preyear’s Tax & Check Cashing on Ridgley St. The Atmore Police Department secured the area while FBI agents searched the premises. An IRS representative in Atlanta said no other information is public record at this time. More information will be posted as it becomes available.
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Special plans for special needs
Most of us take it for granted that our kids can run, play and enjoy themselves on the playground or in the park. For those youngsters with special needs, that freedom doesn’t come easily. Most playgrounds are surrounded by small rocks, sand or tree bark making it impossible for those in wheelchairs or with limited mobility to enjoy what comes so naturally and easily to most of us.
However, that’s about to change at two Atmore schools. Thanks to funds provided by the American Recover and Reinvestment Act (AARA), which are …
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12 Angry Jurors
It’s a cliché to say “I never cease to be amazed,” but I never cease to be amazed at the Greater Escambia Council for the Arts productions.
Twelve Angry Jurors, performed Friday and Saturday nights and Sunday afternoon, was true to GECA form. It did not disappoint.
I had seen bits and pieces of the play as I dropped in during rehearsals to shoot pictures, so I had heard some of the dialogue and had seen some of the acting. The emotions ran high even during rehearsals. But doing three shows of …
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‘Friends’ now ‘Library Partners’
In March, you may receive a letter from the Library Partners of Atmore, and you may wonder who that is.
For decades, you’ve known this organization as Friends of the Atmore Public Library. Feeling it was time for a new name and a new look, the Board voted to change the name and to adopt a bookworm logo.
The Board invites you to partner with the …
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Brannon relocates
H. David Brannon, M.D., family practice, has relocated to 408 Medical Park Drive (formerly Dr. I. Harrison Moore’s office).
“The patient base of Drs. McIntyre, Ates and Brannon continues to grow,” said Bill Perkins, Atmore Community Hospital administrator. “Dr. Brannon’s relocation will open up a second office to allow us to provide care for more patients and continue to do so in a timely manner.”
Records for Dr. Brannon’s patients will be transferred to the new office. …
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Black History Month celebrated at Rachel Patterson Elementary
Students at Rachel Patterson Elementary School celebrated Black History Month (February) last week. They looked at how our country has been and is being shaped recognizing black Americans from our past, present and future.
Escambia County Middle School Principal Zickeyous Byrd was the guest speaker of the day, and he asked the students at Rachel Patterson if they enjoy peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Almost all …
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Making sure you follow through
It’s been a while since I last wrote, but I wanted to pick up where I left off a few months ago. And considering the subject of this article, I just had to do it. I wrote before about how I discovered that there are some fundamentals in a golf swing that just happen to be fundamentals for life.
The first was …
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The great adventure
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.” …
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