Year: 2024

Don Fletcher

Atmore awarded Rebuild Alabama funds
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Gov. Kay Ivey recently marked her seventh year in office by announcing that more than $7.9 million in state funding, including money to put new surfaces on five Atmore streets, has been awarded to Alabama communities and counties for various road and bridge projects.The funds, from the Alabama Department of Transportation’s (ALDOT) set-aside of a portion of the state’s share of new gas tax revenue,…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 months ago
Brewton ‘frequent flyer’ denied parole
Mccreary By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A Brewton man, currently serving his fourth state-prison term since 2007, was denied parole during recent hearings by the Alabama Board of Pardons & Paroles.Michael Lee McCreary was arrested by Brewton police during an undercover drug operation in 2021 for allegedly distributing methamphetamine, crack cocaine and Alprazolam, a prescription drug used to treat anxiety disorder or panic disorder.He was also charged with violation of…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 months ago
Felony arrests
Couple busted in Jack Springs Road drug raid By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer V. Garner F. Garner Atmore Police Department narcotics officers arrested an Atmore husband and wife after execution of a search warrant at their Jack Springs Road residence turned up illegal drugs, a small amount of marijuana and several items associated with drug use.APD Sgt. Darrell McMann reported that officers discovered during the search: nine grams of a…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 months ago
Bidenflation hurts all Americans
Congressman Jerry Carl Joe Biden’s America is scary, unaffordable, and unacceptable. According to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) of March, inflation is up 19.4 percent since Biden took office. When he first entered office, inflation was at 1.4 percent annually. With Biden in the White House, Americans are spending $11,400 more a year on general cost of living expenses, while their wages have decreased. Now, every American is paying more…
by Submitted Article access_time7 months ago
First tenant
Atmore Municipal Airport’s new hangar complex got its first official tenant on April 10, when a MedStar air ambulance was stored there in advance of a storm system forecast for the area. Shown from left, Mayor Jim Staff, Airport Manager Don Flynn, Sam (Don’s dog), MedStar flight crew Kim Carroll, Joe Moore and Scott Gootee, copter maintenance technician Adam Chintock, S.C. Stagner Contracting employees Ashllii Winland and Craig Conway.
by Atmore News access_time7 months ago