Year: 2021

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Escambia County Healthcare Authority officials reported this week that more than 1,700 people have been administered the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination at the county health department and the county’s two hospitals, with almost 600 individuals having received both doses. An ECHCA spokesman said that through last Friday, February 12, that “approximately 1,290” first-dose inoculations had been administered at Atmore Community Hospital, along…

From left, Buckley Davis chats with Patty Helton Davis and Brett Ward prior to the meeting. By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Although there are still several hoops to jump through and miles of red tape standing in the way, residents of Walnut Hill heard last week from the developer who plans to build a Dollar General store in the rural Florida Panhandle community. Buckley Davis of Thomasville, Ga.-based Teramore…

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey recently signed leases for two of the state’s new, privately owned “mega prison” complexes, including the one to be built in Atmore, but details on when actual construction of the new correctional facility will begin are few and far between. The new prisons are the major component of Ivey’s Alabama Prison Program, which aims to decommission many of the state’s…

Late arrivals, no-shows plague ambulance service An ASAP ambulance arrives at a wreck scene Monday evening. By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer An unresponsive local woman had to be taken by private vehicle to Atmore Community Hospital this week when no ambulance was available to handle the job. And public safety officials say that’s just the latest in a string of recent no-shows or late arrivals by ASAP EMS ambulance…