Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

Dollar General meet-greet in Walnut Hill
From left, Buckley Davis chats with Patty Helton Davis and Brett Ward prior to the meeting. By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Although there are still several hoops to jump through and miles of red tape standing in the way, residents of Walnut Hill heard last week from the developer who plans to build a Dollar General store in the rural Florida Panhandle community. Buckley Davis of Thomasville, Ga.-based Teramore…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Gov. signs lease for new prison here
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey recently signed leases for two of the state’s new, privately owned “mega prison” complexes, including the one to be built in Atmore, but details on when actual construction of the new correctional facility will begin are few and far between. The new prisons are the major component of Ivey’s Alabama Prison Program, which aims to decommission many of the state’s…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
ASAP on way out
Late arrivals, no-shows plague ambulance service An ASAP ambulance arrives at a wreck scene Monday evening. By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer An unresponsive local woman had to be taken by private vehicle to Atmore Community Hospital this week when no ambulance was available to handle the job. And public safety officials say that’s just the latest in a string of recent no-shows or late arrivals by ASAP EMS ambulance…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Trash pickin’
Volunteers clean up Patterson St. roadside Eunice Johnson, in foreground, and Eric and Tori Lambert work to remove litter from the roadside. By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer About a dozen volunteers spent Saturday morning, January 30, removing roughly a quarter-truck of trash from a one-block stretch of Patterson Street roadside. The volunteer group, which ranged from 3-year-old Merci Floyd to Atmore Mayor Jim Staff, were participating in the first…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago
Financing, tax credits revealed for peanut shelling plant
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Officials of Atmore-based UB Community Development (UBCD) announced recently that a total of $60 million in New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) allocations have been committed, by United Bank and four entities outside Alabama, for the peanut shelling plant being built here. The federal tax credits, $10 million of which were pledged by UBCD, will be a vital component of the financing plan for the…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 years ago