Don Fletcher

Lions state convention attendees ‘impressed’ with Atmore
Lions Club District Governor Bub Gideons, Alabama Lions District 34-C Atmore Lions President-elect Chuck Brooks, at right, and an out-of-town visitor pick up litter along Hwy 31. Local Lions Kenny Smith, Jennifer Sanders and Renee Hardy, second, third and fourth from left, pose with out-of-town visitors during the canned food drive. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer More than 100 Alabama Lions left Atmore Saturday and Sunday, reportedly taking with them…
Council OKs zoning board appointments
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore City Council members zipped through a three-item agenda during the panel’s Monday, April 25, meeting. The council learned of the availability of “essential pandemic packages,” re-appointed two members of the city’s planning commission and appointed two new members to the board of zoning adjustments.District 3’s Eunice Johnson explained that the pandemic packages are available due to the help of Wind Creek Casino & Hotel…
1-car crash sends AFD unit into Fla.
AFD Chief Ron Peebles, second from left, talks with a Walnut Hill firefighter as the helicopter lifts off in the background. By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore fire and rescue personnel were dispatched around 2:20 p.m. Thursday, April 28, to 8181 Fla. Highway 97, about 7 miles inside the Florida line, when Walnut Hill volunteers reported that the driver of a wrecked Chevy Malibu was trapped inside the car.…
National Prescription Take Back Day
The federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) periodically sponsors National Prescription Drug Take Back Day – a way for residents to remove unneeded medications from their homes as a measure of preventing medication misuse and opioid addiction from ever starting. Local agencies participated in the event Saturday, April 30, in front of Atmore City Hall. Shown are, from left, Sgt. Chris Corbitt with the Atmore Police Department; Atmore Police Chief Chuck…
Arrest made after drone dumps phones at Fountain
Hunter By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A Mobile man, who also provided authorities with a Texas address, was arrested in early April after he allegedly used a drone to try to deliver more than three dozen cell phones to an inmate or a group of inmates at Fountain Correctional Facility.The air-drop scheme might have seemed good at the time, but it wound up putting 33-year-old Joshua Uziel Hunter on a…