Month: August 2018

Don Fletcher

Class 4A, Region 1
Realigned league still a tough row to hoe By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Thanks to the Alabama High School Athletic Association’s region realignment, Escambia County High School’s Blue Devils won’t have to face four of the teams to whom they lost during last year’s 2-8 season. The “new” Class 4A, Region 1, expanded to eight teams this season, no longer includes powerhouse Thomasville, which claimed a 45-22 win over…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Golf tourney raises scholarship funds
Special to Atmore News The University of Alabama Escambia County Alumni is holding the 15th Annual Walter Lewis Golf Tournament Thursday, Sept. 13, at Juniper Creek Golf Course, the former Country Club of Brewton. This event raises money for local scholarship funds, benefitting students in Escambia County, Alabama exclusively. Since 1995, the Walter Lewis Endowed Scholarship Fund has awarded over $75,000 to outstanding area high school seniors to help pave…
by Submitted Article access_time6 years ago
Northview falls to Vernon
By LEXXI BAGGETT News Sports Writer I am certainly hoping that this past Friday night is not setting up the norm for the Northview Chiefs football season this year, especially when Northview has so much senior leadership. True Northview fans are staying the course, however, to see those wins. Fortunately, Friday night at Tommy Weaver stadium, the beginning was just a Kick-Off Classic against Vernon. Vernon trumped both Northview’s junior…
by Atmore News access_time6 years ago
Making ACH safer
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Although Atmore and Escambia County hospital officials plan to build a new medical facility in the near future, they have taken steps to make the existing facility a safer one. The local hospital is currently undergoing a two-phase renovation project, the first phase of which will segregate patients seeking outpatient treatment from patients who are waiting to be treated by ACH’s emergency department staff,…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Criminal charges unlikely in recent stabbing
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Chances are that no one will be charged in connection with the August 7 stabbing of a local man who apparently provoked his alleged assailant into using the weapon against him. Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks said during an August 13 interview that city investigators had turned their investigative file over to District Attorney Steve Billy and asked him to decide whether or not…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago