Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

Free supplies, uniforms at drive-thru ‘Unity’ event
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a long list of changes in most aspects of people’s daily lives. Add Grace Fellowship Church’s annual Unity in the Community Festival to the list. The event, which is being billed as “Unity in the Community, COVID Style,” has for the past several years served as a back-to-school celebration for roughly 1,000 children and adults. It will still be…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Death toll at 13
Number of confirmed COVID cases in county still rising By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Despite a statewide mandatory face mask order issued July 15 by Gov. Kay Ivey, the number of COVID-19 cases across the county and state continue to climb. Alabama Department of Public Health officials announced in an update after release of the department’s twice-weekly report of Tuesday, July 21, that 13 people have now lost their…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
2 more locals denied parole
McCantsCrenshaw By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Two more Escambia County men were denied parole last week by the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles. The board gave consideration on July 7 to parole for 20 state inmates, including former county residents Samuel J. Crenshaw and Quayon McCants. Crenshaw, 33, has served three years and four months of a 15-year sentence imposed in Escambia County Circuit Court when he was…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Council approves ditch, A/C
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore City Council members accepted during their Monday, July 13, meeting the low bid for a ditch work project and approved the emergency purchase of an air conditioning unit for the conference room at city hall. In a 10-minute session conducted by teleconference, the council also formally named City Clerk Becca Smith as Elections Manager and re-appointed Judd Coley and Robert White to the…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
13 qualify for city offices
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A “baker’s dozen” candidates, including five of six incumbents, qualified to run for election or re-election to the city’s governing body during the first week of the two-week qualifying period. City Clerk Becca Smith reported Monday afternoon that Mayor Jim Staff and all but one of the five council members had filed papers and paid qualifying fees to seek another term. The only exception…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago