Atmore News

Obituaries, week of August 18, 2021
Ryan Keith Preston Mr. Ryan Keith Preston, age 64, of Stockton, Ala., passed away Saturday, August 7, 2021, at Mobile Infirmary in Mobile, Ala. He was born in Panama to Noel Justus and Esther Janet Preston. He a32-year career with The Taylor Group working in the local plant in Louisville, Miss. He was promoted to foreman and then to superintendent before transferring as a Customer Service Representative for SSI in…
Still no deal
BOE, McClung swap offers, counteroffers McClung By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer The Escambia County Board of Education and superintendent-selectee Michele M. McClung have swapped offers and counter offers this week as negotiations continued to determine whether McClung would be the replacement for current Superintendent of Education John Knott, whose extended contract expires August 31.BOE Chair Cindy Jackson said she hoped that the board and McClung who has served as director…
Domestic dispute leads to drug arrests
Carter Bowman By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore man and woman were arrested on felony drug charges last Thursday, August 5, after police responded to reports of an ongoing argument in the yard of an East Horner Street residence.The verbal combatants — Dewitt Champ Carter, 25, of Atmore, and Anna Leigh Bowman, 20, of Bay Minette — were arrested after police spotted unspecified quantities of Spice and methamphetamine in…
Felony drug incidents continue
McGhee Brooks By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks said this week that his agency’s recent spate of felony drug arrests is not the result of some recently launched crackdown on those who buy, sell and possess substances controlled under law. Neither has it anything to do with cases that were made when the COVID-19 pandemic kept the county jail closed to non-violent criminals.“These are all current…
ECHS coach dies in wreck.
Bullard By JOSH FRYENews Staff Writer Escambia County High School has suffered yet another tragedy. Less than six months after the passing of ECHS football and basketball coach John Shears, it was confirmed last week by ECHS’s athletic coordinator Scott Mason that ECHS football coach, former baseball coach and head girls basketball coach, Kasuan D. Bullard, 39, was killed in a two-vehicle traffic accident Monday (Aug. 2) on Cochran Causeway…