Year: 2022

Don Fletcher

Super Fun Day lives up to its name
Student-athletes competed in bouncy ball races and several other competitions. Flag-bearer Bailey Stuckey led the way to the stadium. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer For 132 Escambia County School System students, last Thursday, April 28, was more than just a fun day spent outside in the sunshine. For those students, last Thursday’s resurrection of Super Fun Day more than lived up to its name.The students, many of them wheelchair-bound, gave…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Obituaries, week of May 4, 2022
Betty J. Stewart  Stewart Graveside service for Ms. Betty J. Stewart, age 79, of Atmore, Ala., will be held Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 1 p.m. at Fairview Cemetery with Rev. Cleitus Walker, Pastor of Gaines Chapel AME Church, officiating. Turner Funeral Chapel in charge of all arrangements. Burnell English Funeral service for Mr. Burnell English, age 61, of Boston, Mass., formerly of Walnut Hill, Fla. and Atmore, Ala., will…
by Atmore News access_time3 years ago
New principals for ECHS, ECMS
Members of ECHS’s Class 4A state runner-up basketball team posed with State Rep. Alan Baker, who paid for the individual plaques each received. Shown, from left, front, Hakeem Johnson, Anthony McCants, Terrence McNeil Jr., Head Coach Layton Knight, Rep. Baker, Coach John Jones, LaCarlos Thomas; back, Connor McPherson, Coach Eddie Kyle, Coach Keyon Thompson, Stephen Williams, Coach Quentin Higgins, Sheldon Williams. From left, Kike Pettaway and Forrest Jones were hired…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Trafficking in crack
Task force finds rock cocaine, pot; other drugs hidden in chili cans Williams By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer State and local drug agents conducted a late-night raid last week that resulted in the confiscation of varying amounts of illicit substances, including some hidden in chili cans, and enough of one substance to draw a trafficking charge.Atmore Police Sgt. Darrell McMann reported that Keith Lamor Williams, 48, of Atmore was arrested…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
FHS QB ‘preferred walk-on’ at ’Bama
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer While most of his classmates will have all summer to dream about their futures as adults, former Flomaton High School quarterback Zeb Vickery will start living his dream just three days after he’s handed his diploma on May 26.The 6-foot-2, 195-pound athlete recently accepted a “preferred walk-on” role with the University of Alabama Birmingham football team but changed his mind when a similar offer came…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago