Author: Don Fletcher

Lassiter Johnson By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Two new city council members and the city’s new municipal court judge will be among the city of Atmore officials who will be sworn in at the city council meeting to be held next Monday, November 2. The meeting will be a little different than normal council sessions. It will begin at 6 p.m. instead of 4 p.m., and it will take…

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks reported this week that APD detectives are investigating two separate shooting incidents, each of which occurred inside the city limits last Sunday, October 25. A person was wounded in one of the incidents, and investigators are reportedly looking at the case as a possible attempted murder, while details of the other one are almost non-existent. In a press release…

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…