Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

Local woman’s first play this weekend at GECA
From left, M’Kayla Baldwin, Tyrec Packer and Sherese Craft pose prior to a recent rehearsal. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer If everything goes according to plan this week, by Sunday night Sherese Craft will have realized a dream that has been accompanying her sleep since she was in elementary school.Craft, a daughter of Tracy and Tracey Craft and a 2016 graduate of Escambia County High School, will direct her first…
by Don Fletcher access_time2 years ago
A new Ms. ANC
Return of popular pageant gives residents, staff a much-needed lift From left, the contestants: Jody Carter, Ms. ANC Ola Haughton, Patricia Amon, Jena Capps were all smiles after the pageant. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer For the past two-plus years, as the COVID pandemic raged through similar facilities across the state and nation, residents and staff members of Atmore Nursing Center have had little to be happy about. That changed…
by Don Fletcher access_time2 years ago
Shots fired
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A juvenile female and two adult females were arrested May 6 by Atmore police and charged in connection with a May 5 incident that included several gunshots being fired in the parking lot of a local restaurant.The incident occurred at Acapulco’s Mexican Restaurant on East Church Street. It began inside the restaurant but carried into the parking lot.“A fight broke out between two females inside…
by Don Fletcher access_time2 years ago
City to spend portion of stimulus funds on sidetrack
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore City Council members approved during their Monday, May 9, meeting three resolutions related to a railroad sidetrack that will serve the new Coastal Growers peanut shelling plant, including an agreement to use nearly $1 million of the city’s federal stimulus money to cover the agricultural co-op’s shortfall in funding the rail siding itself.The first resolution was to authorize the private sidetrack agreement between the…
by Don Fletcher access_time2 years ago
Drugs in baby’s system, mom charged
Powers By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore woman was arrested May 2 on a chemical endangerment charge, more than eight months after her newborn baby was found to have cocaine in its system.Police Sgt. Darrell McMann reported that Daphne Powers, 33, was booked into the Escambia County Detention Center on one count of chemical endangerment of a child.Under Alabama law, chemical endangerment of a child is a Class C…
by Don Fletcher access_time2 years ago