Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

MLK Unity Prayer Breakfast draws near-record crowd
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer This year’s Unity Prayer Breakfast, an event sponsored by Concerned Citizens of Atmore and held each year on the Saturday preceding the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, featured both a near-record crowd and a brisk pace that helped ward off the effects of a hearty breakfast. More than 65 people attended the January 18 event. They ranged from children and young adults to those…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Ivey visits Holman
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Gov. Kay Ivey visited Atmore last week. But those who weren’t at Atmore Municipal Airport between 10:30 and 10:33 a.m. on Wednesday, January 15, missed it. The governor’s jet, scheduled to land “between 9:30 and 9:40 (a.m.),” took off late from Montgomery due to fog, encountered heavier fog the further south it flew, and finally eased onto a local runway at 10:28 a.m., an…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Ambulance merger
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Note: This article is the first in a two-part series on the announced merger of Atmore Ambulance Service and ASAP EMS-Ambulance and how the merger should improve response times in medical emergencies. City of Atmore officials are still unclear on the details of the transaction, but are keeping their fingers crossed that a reported merger between the city’s two private ambulance services — Atmore…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Woman uninjured in collision with horse
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer An Atmore woman escaped injury when her car slammed into a wayward horse that wandered onto a Florida highway shortly before sunrise, January 8. According to Florida Highway Patrol reports, 50-year-old Katie Dailey of Atmore was traveling northward in her 2012 Dodge Avenger around 6 a.m. when the horse “was traveling west across U.S. 29, north of Duxbury Avenue,” near Molino, Fla. Reports show…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Local group lobbies for ‘super prison’
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A contingent of five local and area officials carried high hopes but a low degree of certainty into a January 3 meeting with Gov. Kay Ivey’s Chief of Staff Jo Bonner and other senior staff members on the possibility that one of the state’s three proposed “super prisons” would be located just outside Atmore. They left the meeting as uncertain as they had arrived,…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago