Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

Weekly vaccination clinics in Atmore, Brewton
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Alabama Department of Public Health officials announced last week that county health departments in the state’s Southwestern District began this week conducting free, weekly walk-in COVID-19 vaccination clinics, including in Atmore and Brewton.The Atmore clinic will be conducted from 9 to 11 a.m. each Monday until further notice at the county health department offices (Suite 17) in the satellite courthouse on U.S. 31. In Brewton,…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Convicted felon from Atmore arrested in Pensacola
Stark By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore man, convicted several years ago in Mobile County of first-degree robbery, was recently arrested and charged with two weapons violations as he sat in his car outside a Pensacola, Fla. nightclub.Pensacola Police Department reports show that Robert Mario Stark, 28, of a Liberty Street address, was taken into custody April 18 after police investigated the smell of burnt marijuana coming from a…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
Council approves land sale for USDA facility
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore’s City Council, sitting one member short, approved during the Monday, April 26, council meeting the sale of a piece of property on Carpet Drive that will be used for a United States Department of Agriculture peanut grading facility.The new facility will reportedly be built on a 5.014-acre site near the Coastal Growers shelling plant that is being constructed along Industrial and Carpet drives. Mayor…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
1 week, 3 shootings
1 suspect caught after chase; 2 more sought Robinson By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer With the only suspect in one shooting now in custody, Atmore Police Department detectives can concentrate on investigating the other two shootings that have occurred within the city over a period of six days.The first shooting, and the most serious of the three, came on April 25, when 28-year-old Scottie Dale Robinson of Atmore allegedly shot…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago
First Chamber Foundation grant awarded to Women’s Resource Center
Attending the grant presentation were, from left, Brandy Giger, Goldie Huber, Phyllis Brown, Beverly White, Linda Bumann,Teresa Nichols, Linda Smith, Emilee Waters, Breiah Adams, Anna Norton, Erin Hankins and A.J. Beachy. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer If there’s one word that best describes Linda Smith, it’s “grateful.” And Smith, executive director for Women’s Resource Center of Escambia in Atmore, has plenty for which to be grateful these days.For starters, the…
by Don Fletcher access_time5 years ago