Author: Don Fletcher

Police seize meth, weapons, more in raid on drug house By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore police were still searching this week for the resident of a reputed drug house — located on the fringe of the city’s limits and just a few yards from the home of a high-ranking police officer — that was raided by city, state and federal officers early Friday morning, January 3. Police Chief…

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A Baldwin County man with an Atmore address, already facing attempted murder charges in two different counties, has been charged by Mobile authorities with assaulting a hospital employee in that city. According to Mobile County Sheriff’s Office reports, 26-year-old Colton Shane Sims of a Sims Road address in Atmore, was admitted to University Hospital on December 14 after he was wounded in a shotgun…

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A proposal to form a municipal school system, the ongoing uncertainty over the location of a new hospital and two incidents that brought a degree of infamy to the community were among the top news stories in and around Atmore during the first six months of 2019. City schools The first public meeting on a proposal to pull Escambia County High School, Escambia County…

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A space heater that was left unattended and without a clear area around it, is being blamed for a Christmas Eve fire that gutted a Brooks Lane residence. “The presumptive call is that it was caused by a space heater left too close to the furniture,” said Atmore Fire Department Capt. Jeremy Blackmon. Firefighters from Atmore and Poarch Creek fire departments gained control of…

City school system organizers ask Justice Dept. to intervene By DON FLETCHER and SHERRY DIGMON News Staff Writers Organizers of an effort to have the three public schools in Atmore “secede” from the county school system and form a system of their own say they have waited long enough, and their patience has worn thin. Loumeek White, president of Atmore Citizens for Change, filed Monday, December 30, on behalf of…