Author: Don Fletcher

To be built across from Walmart By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer City of Atmore officials confirmed with an “ultra-high degree of certainty” that Jack’s Family Restaurants will build its 11th — and southernmost — Alabama-based fast-food eatery here. Mayor Jim Staff said the deal is all but done, having come down to some minor amendments to the wording of the contract between the city and officials of the restaurant…

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer The rate of COVID-19 continued to remain relatively stable in Escambia County over the past four days, although 18 new cases were confirmed among county residents out of 493 specimens collected since October 16. Escambia has now seen 1,713 confirmed cases since the pandemic began, with 28 deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus. Less than half of those were from specimens collected at the…

Attending the October 16 meet-and-greet were, from left, Sen. Greg Albritton, Cory Hill, Eunice Johnson, Shawn Lassiter, Hope Lassiter, Walter Overby, Debra Wallace and Rep. Alan Baker. By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Not many everyday people know what the Alabama Supercomputer Authority is, or what it does. But to librarians across the state, the organization is well known and of vast importance. ASA is also important to those who…

Christina McCaskill, at right, prepares to lead the march. By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A group of 20, mostly women but including some men and children, marched along several Atmore streets last Thursday, October 15, shouting slogans and carrying placards to protest the fact that an area preacher — accused of sexually abusing several teenage boys — remains free on bond and continues to minister his two churches, including…