Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

BOE workshop
School system accountant ‘finds’ $5 million Goolsby By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Escambia County Board of Education members got a pleasant surprise during a two-hour workshop held just prior to the board’s July 31 meeting. Chief Schools Financial Officer (CSFO) Rochelle Richardson, who replaced retiring CSFO Julie Madden last July, said she and Deputy Director of Operations (DDO) Shaun Goolsby were working on “budgets and stuff” when she learned…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
BOE approves $170K for technology, other services
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Escambia County Board of Education members approved during their July 31 meeting the expenditure of $170,815.79 for educational technology services, professional development for teachers and other services. All but $10,937.08 of the expenditures are to be paid for with Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds, federal money that was allotted to help recover from the impact of COVID-19 and which must be…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Felony arrests
No taillights, expired tag lead to drug charges Giddins McClain Tecun Tunstall Brooks Johnson By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer *A Mobile man, 24-year-old William Conner Amerson Giddins, was arrested July 28 by Atmore police on felony and misdemeanor drug charges after he was pulled over for operating a vehicle without taillights and an obstructed, expired tag.While speaking with Giddins and his two passengers, the officer observed “suspicious behavior” and was…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
No parole for Atmore man, Brewton men
Warren Samuel McKenzie By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore man and two Brewton men were among state inmates for whom parole was denied during recent hearings of the Alabama Pardons & Paroles Board.The Atmore man, David Paul Warren, was turned down during July 13 APPB hearings. Warren has served almost 7-1/2 years of a 20-year sentence he received after a 2016 conviction for an unnamed “offense against a person.”However,…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Ribbon cut for new IT Academy at ECHS
Atmore Area Chamber of Commerce officials and Ambassadors joined county education officials and school officials in the ceremonial ribbon cutting for ECHS’s IT Academy. Shown, from left, front row, Na’Asia Reynolds, Chloe Dawson, Shontia Martin, Iyriel Munlyn, Danielle Fails, Kenna Alverson, Mary Ruth Dortch, Jamison Gilman, Gracie Mosley; middle row, David Dobson, Sherry Digmon, Cindy Jackson, Michele McClung, Kike Pettaway, Michele Collier, Coleman Wallace, Mike Edwards, Shawn Lassiter, Jerome Webster;…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago