Day: August 18, 2021

Don Fletcher

BOE grants volunteers use of school towers
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer The Escambia County Board of Education recently approved a measure that will allow the county’s volunteer fire departments to make use of the communications towers located at several county schools.The memorandum of aid (MOA) between the BOE and the Escambia County Alabama Association of Volunteer Fire Departments will allow volunteers to remain in contact with other public safety agencies when emergency responders are dispatched to…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Free food event Aug. 19
Special to Atmore News Pensacola Caring Hearts will present its third Atmore grocery giveaway this Thursday, August 19.Distribution of more than 6,000 pounds of perishable and non-perishable food items will begin at 10 a.m. at Tom Byrne Park, located off Hodnette Drive.For more information on the event, call Fannie Finkley at 850-375-1838.
by Atmore News access_time3 years ago
Tethered tank triggers emergency response
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore police officers and firefighters were sent to the local Walmart shortly after 7 a.m. Sunday, August 15, after officials of the store reported that employees found what appeared at first to be some type of improvised explosive device.The concerns turned out to be unfounded, although police did find a propane tank tied with a heavy-duty plastic tie to a bush or small tree, in…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Inmate will apparently serve sentence
Oden By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A state inmate who was sentenced in 1998 to serve a 25-year sentence after his conviction for a robbery he committed as an inmate, is apparently going to go the distance and serve the entire prison term.Juandricus Jermaine Oden, 41, was denied parole by the Alabama Board of Pardons & Paroles during a recent hearing, leaving Oden with about a year and four months…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
President Biden is to blame for Afghanistan
Congressman Jerry Carl Over the weekend, people across the world watched as President Biden allowed the Taliban to take control of more than 20 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces. Within a matter of hours, the Taliban took control of the U.S Embassy in Kabul, seized the presidential palace, and began firing on the Kabul Airport as thousands of Americans, Afghans, and other innocent people in the area desperately fled for their…
by Submitted Article access_time3 years ago