Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

Council OKs zoning board appointments
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore City Council members zipped through a three-item agenda during the panel’s Monday, April 25, meeting. The council learned of the availability of “essential pandemic packages,” re-appointed two members of the city’s planning commission and appointed two new members to the board of zoning adjustments.District 3’s Eunice Johnson explained that the pandemic packages are available due to the help of Wind Creek Casino & Hotel…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
1-car crash sends AFD unit into Fla.
AFD Chief Ron Peebles, second from left, talks with a Walnut Hill firefighter as the helicopter lifts off in the background. By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore fire and rescue personnel were dispatched around 2:20 p.m. Thursday, April 28, to 8181 Fla. Highway 97, about 7 miles inside the Florida line, when Walnut Hill volunteers reported that the driver of a wrecked Chevy Malibu was trapped inside the car.…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
Arrest made after drone dumps phones at Fountain
Hunter By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A Mobile man, who also provided authorities with a Texas address, was arrested in early April after he allegedly used a drone to try to deliver more than three dozen cell phones to an inmate or a group of inmates at Fountain Correctional Facility.The air-drop scheme might have seemed good at the time, but it wound up putting 33-year-old Joshua Uziel Hunter on a…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
RPES STEM Honor Society
Newly inducted members in the STEM Honor Society, from left, seated, Kaylee Brown, Kambrie Hudson, Jehle Poindexter, Jah’Liyah Dawson, Jackson Wheeler, J’Ceon Gable, Christian Napoleon, Ayden Lowe, Arlaysia Pete; standing, Kayveon Johnson, Khamyria Finklea, Lae’lyn Bogan, LaRoyia Turner, Montez Riley, Paisley Macks, Paxton Young, Syler Fularz, Tro’Darrius McWilliams. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Rachel Patterson Elementary School Principal Toya McMillian likes to refer to her school as the “best-kept secret…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
Super Fun Day lives up to its name
Student-athletes competed in bouncy ball races and several other competitions. Flag-bearer Bailey Stuckey led the way to the stadium. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer For 132 Escambia County School System students, last Thursday, April 28, was more than just a fun day spent outside in the sunshine. For those students, last Thursday’s resurrection of Super Fun Day more than lived up to its name.The students, many of them wheelchair-bound, gave…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago