Day: May 29, 2019

Don Fletcher

Memorial Day
Faulty mic only a minor distraction at local observance By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Although the public address system wasn’t cooperative at Monday’s Memorial Day observance, the holiday’s somber message came through loud and clear. Commanders of both local veterans groups, along with the city’s mayor and a young military veteran who spent her formative years in Atmore, stressed the difference between Memorial Day, which is set aside to…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Holley named to ECHCA
Special to Atmore News BREWTON, AL – Alexis Maloy of the Escambia County Healthcare Authority (ECHCA), announced her retirement from the Board at the Authority’s meeting in December 2018. The ECHCA is the governing body over D.W. McMillan Memorial Hospital and Atmore Community Hospital and related entities. Board members are appointed by the Escambia County Commission. ECHCA CEO Chris Griffin noted that Maloy will be remembered for her unselfish devotion…
by Atmore News access_time5 years ago
Second-grader saves grandmother’s life
By SHERRY DIGMON News Publisher Becky Sorrells knew she was in trouble. On the night of April 10, an emphysema attack debilitated her. Fortunately, her eight-year-old granddaughter Kenleigh Madison was with her. Kenleigh called 911 for help. But she actually had to do more than just ask for help. The dirt road to their home was impassable due to three days of rain on new red clay at their mobile…
by Sherry Digmon access_time5 years ago
Child sex abuse, torture case still open
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore police investigators, along with investigators from the Escambia County Department of Human Resources and forensic interviewers from Escambia County Regional Child Advocacy Center, are almost finished with their investigation into the case of a local man charged with the violent sexual abuse of two children. Meanwhile, the suspect, 18-year-old Abraham L. Banks of a Maplewood Drive address, has been freed on bond for…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
No arrests yet
APD searching for party gunmen By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks blamed the chaos of the situation for initial reports that a May 18 party during which one person was shot to death and eight others wounded in a hail of gunfire was for past and present graduates of Escambia County High School. Brooks said he was being hounded by local, regional and national media…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago