Don Fletcher

Suspects nabbed
Arrests in Circle K, Piggly Wiggly hold-ups; Grey Goose robbery still under investigation By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore police arrested last week two local men — one wanted in connection with the December 7 armed robbery of the Kangaroo Express (Circle K) convenience store on West Nashville Avenue, and one believed to be responsible for the armed robbery three days earlier of the Davisville, Fla. Piggly Wiggly. An…
Santa in the Park a huge success
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A crowd estimated at nearly 500, most of them wide-eyed youngsters, flocked to Heritage Park on Saturday, December 7, to enjoy Atmore Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual Santa in the Park event. A line that kept growing extended from the front of Atmore Welcome Center to the park’s lighted tunnel as eager children and their parents waited for a photo with Santa, who arrived…
Armed robbery
Police seek suspect in Circle K holdup  By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore police continued this week their search for a young black man who robbed a local convenience store at gunpoint early Saturday, December 7. According to a press release issued Monday by Police Chief Chuck Brooks, police were called to the Kangaroo Express (Circle K) store at 901 West Nashville Avenue, where a clerk reported that a…
City to apply for $1M sanitation shop funding
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore’s City Council approved during its Monday, December 9, meeting an application for nearly $1 million in funding for a new municipal maintenance building and purchase a new garbage truck. The council voted 4-0, with District 3’s Chris Walker abstaining, to approve an application to the United States Department of Agriculture for a loan from the USDA’s Rural Development funding program. The abstention stems…
Tense situation as cable snaps, yanks tower worker 40 feet into air
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer An employee of a company performing maintenance on a local cell phone tower escaped serious injury when a guy wire snapped and yanked him about 40 feet into the air shortly after 1 p.m. last Friday, December 6. The unidentified worker, an employee of Douglasville, Ga.-based Bennett Communications, dangled upside-down from the tower, located about 100 yards off Jack Springs Road, near its junction…