Comments on: Photo Gallery: Celebrating Mayfest

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 05 May 2010 01:33:54 +0000

When you are the TOP DAWG everyone seems to want a piece of you. Now all you folks that want a piece of William are going to run into big trouble. We simply will not tolerate that in North Escambia. All you controversial people can take a long walk on a short pier.

By: Beyonce

Beyonce — Tue, 04 May 2010 23:13:43 +0000

An ecological crisis is threatening the coast and the economy yet Atmore residents seem to be more concerned with how many Atmore, AL Mayfest photos are found on a Florida website. This is the typical narcissism you find in Atmore.

By: alumni

alumni — Tue, 04 May 2010 22:54:40 +0000

I’m only commenting to say “William, you do a fantastic job with the time, energy, availability and knowledge that you have”. You are truly appreciated and I love reading the stories on here no matter WHAT the story is or WHERE the story is located.

Keep up the wonderful work William!!!!!

By: D Brown

D Brown — Mon, 03 May 2010 23:41:49 +0000

If you don’t like what William covers then don’t look at his website. Wait three or four days for your local paper to cover it, if they even cover it………William does a terrific job for the North Escambia residents and covering events at the local schools that no other news source covers. Thanks William and keep up the good work!!!!!!!

By: Chiefs Fan

Chiefs Fan — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:02:39 +0000

atmoreman — just how much coverage do the atmore papers websites have yet? That’s what I thought. ZERO.

By: Chiefs Fan

Chiefs Fan — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:52:55 +0000

> So comments like “more coverage commitments than Mayfest in Atmore,” can sometimes be construed as a slight on our community

You’re kidding right? You are complaining that northescambia does not cover Atmore enough on a story where they did cover Atmore.

Looking back at the pages from Saturday and Sunday. It looks like he covered a disabled fishing tournament in Walnut Hill, and, among other stories, an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Seems to me that an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was way more important than mayfest in Atmore. Plus, I think the disabled fishing thing was cool. Nobody else covers things like that. That’s why I like northescambia.com. They cover a variety of things. It does not matter if you were a disabled person fishing or a beautiful baby, you got coverage.

By: William

William — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:44:48 +0000

>I think that far too many times that Northescambia.com forgets that Atmore is an integral part of north escambia residents, their lives, and livelihood.

Yes, Atmore is an important part of the lives of some North Escambia residents. Some work there, some shop there, and probably many more enjoy a good shrimp basket at Davids (Mmm!) from time to time.

But Flomaton, Jay and Pensacola are also important parts of the lives of many North Escambia residents. (More North Escambia residents work in or travel to the Pensacola metro that any other place.)

There are thousands of North Escambia residents that never, ever go to Atmore. Same with Flomaton and Jay.

But Atmore, Flomaton and Jay are great places with great people, so we love y'all too and consider you part of the North Escambia family.

That's why we cover North Escambia fully and completely. And then we cover events, "breaking news" and other info from Atmore, Flomaton, Jay and Pensacola. We don't and will not claim to provide complete coverage in Atmore, Flomaton, Jay or Pensacola -- same with the rest of Escambia County, Ala. and Santa Rosa County. We are, however, the most widely read daily news source in many of those communities, and we appreciate each and every one of our readers.

We do have, and do claim, pretty complete coverage of what goes on in or has a strong impact on the 20,000 plus people in North Escambia. But well over 20,000 people per day read NorthEscambia.com -- so it is very evident that we have thousands of readers outside "our area".

I would be happy to run more items from Atmore. Or Flomaton. Or Jay. Anyone is welcome to submit items and photos for publication. We always invite readers to become involved and submit photos, or at least let us know about an event before it happens. Many readers do.

Again, we value each and every reader. To each one in North Escambia, Jay, Atmore, Flomaton, Brewton, Pace, Iraq and Afghanistan -- no matter where you are -- we appreciate you. And we always invite you tell us how you think we can do a better job.

Thanks for being part of the NorthEscambia.com family!

By: HA!

HA! — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:25:25 +0000

If you want pictures so badly, maybe you should have GONE YOURSELF. I’m so sick of people complaining about William’s lack of pictures on events that interest YOU. He isn’t going to go to one place and camp out to get pictures of every little thing. Take your own pictures! We all know that northescambia always invites people to submit photos of their own, so if you want coverage of something that is important to you to make it on here, take them & submit them. Pretty easy.

Keep up the GREAT work, William!

By: atmoreman

atmoreman — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:16:00 +0000

Although most folks in our area know that Mayfest is held in Atmore, it was nice of William to point it out. I think that far too many times that Northescambia.com forgets that Atmore is an integral part of north escambia residents, their lives, and livelihood. So comments like “more coverage commitments than Mayfest in Atmore,” can sometimes be construed as a slight on our community. We enjoy the site, but would like a little more respect at times.

By: Angi

Angi — Mon, 03 May 2010 12:43:45 +0000

Just keep up the excellent work that you do William, people have to come to realize, that you always have more than one place to be at all times; you yourself run your poor self to death covering all the stories that you do. Thanks again so much for sharing the photos that you did take at Atmore’s Mayfest… I’m sure if they followed your footsteps, with all your coverage they would understand; you can’t stay there all day taking pictures of everybody and everything. That’s just the way it goes…