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Don Fletcher

‘Brand new’

750-gallon, $640K pumper joins AFD’s fire-suppression fleet From left, Capt. Zack Stewart, Firefighter Dee Guy and Chief Ronald Peebles look over the new truck. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore Fire Department welcomed a new addition to its fleet of fire-suppression vehicles last Friday, December 29, when Chief Ron Peebles and a squad of city firefighters returned from Decatur with a bright red Rosenbauer pumper.The new fire engine, which comes…

MLK events set

By SHERRY DIGMONNews Publisher The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration is set for Monday, January 15.Concerned Citizens of Atmore “Unity in the Community” and Rho Xi Sigma Alumni Chapiter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. are sponsoring this year’s events.The theme is “Brotherly Love Is the Strongest Advocate for Freedom, Peace, and Justice for All.”Weekend events include the following: • MLK Prayer Breakfast January 13, 8:30 a.m., David’s…

EA’s Odom earns first-team AISA All-State slot

Odom By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Quinton Odom, a senior defensive back for Escambia Academy’s Cougars, was one of two high school football players from Escambia County named to the first team of their respective classification’s All-State squad for 2023.Odom was one of three EA players chosen by the Alabama Sportswriters Association (ASWA) for recognition among Alabama’s best independent school defensive players for the season just past.The 6-foot-7, 190-pound two-way…

WEU awarded $1.4M for downtown sewer improvements

Smith By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Alabama Department of Environmental Management officials announced recently that the agency has awarded $1.4 million of federal funds to West Escambia Utilities (WEU) that will provide much-needed improvements to the ancient sanitary sewer system in downtown Atmore.Kenny Smith, manager of the utility company that provides gas, water and sewer to Atmore and the surrounding area, said the funds — from the American Rescue Plan…

Atmore men turned down by parole board

Hazley By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Two Atmore men — one of them convicted for the third time of carrying a pistol after having previously been convicted of a violent felony — were rejected for parole during recent hearings by the Alabama Board of Pardons & Paroles.Robert Chad Hazley has served just over eight months of a 20-year sentence he received earlier this year after he was convicted on two…