Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

Escapee recaptured
Inmate taken into custody here after crashing car By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A state inmate — one of two who escaped less than four hours apart from Loxley Work Release in Monday’s predawn hours — was recaptured here about nine hours later after he crashed his getaway car at a local convenience store. According to escape and recapture notices issued by Alabama Department of Corrections officials, 22-year-old Damon…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Chamber Art Walk coming
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Emily Harp and her Atmore Area Chamber of Commerce staff have not been sitting back under the air conditioners, idly awaiting autumn, this summer. In fact, they’ve done anything but. Harp announced in a bad-news, good-news manner late Tuesday morning that the planned Evening in White has been postponed for a year so that the Chamber can focus on three new projects. First, Phase…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
New hospital planned
ACH opts out of Infirmary management agreement By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore Community Hospital Board and Escambia County Healthcare Authority have exercised a contractual option and will soon end their joint management agreement with Infirmary Health. According to a July 18 letter issued jointly by ECHA Chair Ruth Harrell and ACHB Chair Nancy Lowery and addressed to hospital staff and physicians, the contract with Infirmary provides for a…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Active shooter drill held
Officials hope for the best, prepare for the worst By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Teachers at Escambia County Middle School have become accustomed to participating in various learning programs over the years. The program in which they participated July 13 was a horse of a different color, though. More than 120 school administrators, faculty and staff from across the Atmore feeder pattern — ECMS, Escambia County High, Huxford Elementary…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Fugitive captured
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A Brooklyn, N.Y., woman — sought by New York City Police Department detectives for the January 2017 death of one of her children — was captured last week in Atmore. Authorities are not revealing how long the woman — 31-year-old Phyllis Reinoso — had been hiding out here, but her arrest by U.S. Marshals brought to an end an 18-month search for the female…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago