Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

Circumstances surrounding child’s death clarified
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer As the Atmore community continues to mourn the October 31 death of 3-year-old Rickey Rydell Lyons III, more details have come out that provide clarification of the tragic incident that cost the youngster his life. Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks told a Mobile television station the teen who accidentally backed over the youngster was not at Lil Angels Development Center to pick up her…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
ECSO drug arrests
Atmore woman among 5 charged By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Three recent traffic stops made by Escambia County Sheriff’s Office deputies resulted in five arrests, including that of an Atmore woman, for possession of various drugs. According to a press release issued by Sheriff Heath Jackson, the deputies used ECSO K-9 units to detect unlawful substances during the traffic stops. On Saturday, November 2, an ECSO deputy detected the…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
Obituaries, week of November 10, 2019
Loretta Lynn Galvan Mrs. Loretta Lynn Galvan, age 52, passed away Tuesday, November 5, 2019 in Pensacola, Fla.  She was a native and life-long resident of Brewton, Ala. She was a contract painter most of her working life and she attended the Shady Grove Holiness Church. She was preceded in death by her father, Robert A. Patton. Mrs. Galvan is survived by her mother, Margaret Patton of Brewton; special friend…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
Police seeking masked bandits in bungled burglary
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore police are seeking two men, one of whom wore a Halloween mask, who broke into a Perch Street home last week in an apparent robbery attempt. APD Chief Chuck Brooks said this week that police were called around 8:20 p.m., October 28, by a person at a residence in the 600-block of Perch Street, where the home invasion took place. “Police were called…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
School tax extension vote next Tuesday
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore’s registered voters will decide next Tuesday, November 12, whether a school tax that has been in effect for six decades will be extended for another 20 years. The tax is a 5-mil levy of which the proceeds are earmarked to help pay the salaries, payroll taxes and benefits for several administrative positions at schools within the city, as well as part of the…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago