Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

Local groups combine Veterans Day with flag retirement
Veteran Glenn Jernigan, left, places a flag on the fire. At right is Legion Commander Dave Graham. Brenda Gradia helps her granddaughter, Charlotte Gantt, retire a flag. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer The holiday observance held in Atmore last Friday, November 11, was all about flags. The gathering was to hoist a new flag, retire several old ones, and to honor the men and women who fought under the banner…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Council approves software for new APD computers
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore City Council, with two members absent and Mayor Jim Staff taking part in the votes, approved during the panel’s Monday, November 14, meeting the purchase of software for in-car computers and printers that were donated to Atmore Police Department.District 4’s Shawn Lassiter was reportedly snowed in at an out-of-state airport, and District 1’s Webb Nall was sick, causing each to miss the session.The council…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Escapee caught while selling cell phones without license
Vanhuse By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A Montgomery man who was wanted by state corrections officials for escape, was arrested Nov. 7 in Atmore after police received a complaint, he was selling cellular telephones in the city without a business license.The complaint came in around noon that someone — later determined to be Lamar Vanhuse, 46 — was selling cell phones at Bragg Street Apartments without a business license.A police…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Arrest made in October shooting into house
Frye By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An 18-year-old Atmore man was arrested November 7 in connection with shots that were fired into a local residence in October.The incident occurred on October 20, around 1:50 p.m., at a house in the 100 block of Crow Street. Atmore police were sent to the residence in reference to shots being fired into it.APD officers arrived to discover several spent shell casings, believed to…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Board refuses parole for Brewton man
Campbell By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A Brewton man who has been behind state prison bars for more than 14 years, will remain a state inmate for at least five more years after the Alabama Board of Pardons & Paroles recently refused his bid for parole.Board members turned down the application of Darrell Campbell, who was convicted in 2012 in Escambia County Circuit Court of second-degree assault and first-degree criminal…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago