Author: Don Fletcher

No report issued by ECHCA By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Escambia County Healthcare Authority officials had not released by Tuesday’s press deadline its twice-weekly update on COVID-19’s presence within Escambia County. No reason was provided for the absence of the report. According to the Alabama Department of Public Health website, Escambia County has seen 1,653 cases — 1,376 confirmed and 277 “probable.” Over the past 14 days, 86 new…

Storm’s path uncertain, but local agencies ready By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer No one is exactly sure when or where Hurricane Delta, which is expected to reach Category 4 strength by Wednesday morning (October 7), will make landfall in the U.S., but local emergency officials are preparing for the possibility it will follow the lead of Hurricane Sally. Sally came ashore at Gulf Shores on September 16 as a…

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore City Council members and more than a dozen city citizens learned during the September 28 council meeting just how much it will cost taxpayers to bring a massive, state-of-the-art peanut processing plant to the city. City Attorney Larry Wettermark and Centerfire Economic CEO Jess Nicholas, who has been contracted by the Escambia County Industrial Development Authority to help bring businesses to the county,…

The stolen vehicle damaged the Legion building at Main and Church. By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A Saturday morning (October 3) attempt by an unknown man to outrun city police ended when the stolen vehicle the man was driving left a city street and bounced off a building before coming to rest on the sidewalk across the street. Atmore Police Department reports show that the Chevy Tahoe, reported stolen…

Parents, sister remain hospitalized James By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A Saturday morning (October 3) crash on Florida Highway 97, just south of Walnut Hill, claimed the life of an 11-year-old Atmore boy and left his parents and sister hospitalized. Jaden James, a sixth-grade student at Flomaton Elementary School who planned to join the clergy when he reached adulthood, was airlifted from the wreck site to a Pensacola, Fla.…