Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

Santa in the Park a huge success
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A crowd estimated at nearly 500, most of them wide-eyed youngsters, flocked to Heritage Park on Saturday, December 7, to enjoy Atmore Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual Santa in the Park event. A line that kept growing extended from the front of Atmore Welcome Center to the park’s lighted tunnel as eager children and their parents waited for a photo with Santa, who arrived…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Armed robbery
Police seek suspect in Circle K holdup  By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore police continued this week their search for a young black man who robbed a local convenience store at gunpoint early Saturday, December 7. According to a press release issued Monday by Police Chief Chuck Brooks, police were called to the Kangaroo Express (Circle K) store at 901 West Nashville Avenue, where a clerk reported that a…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
City to apply for $1M sanitation shop funding
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore’s City Council approved during its Monday, December 9, meeting an application for nearly $1 million in funding for a new municipal maintenance building and purchase a new garbage truck. The council voted 4-0, with District 3’s Chris Walker abstaining, to approve an application to the United States Department of Agriculture for a loan from the USDA’s Rural Development funding program. The abstention stems…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Tense situation as cable snaps, yanks tower worker 40 feet into air
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer An employee of a company performing maintenance on a local cell phone tower escaped serious injury when a guy wire snapped and yanked him about 40 feet into the air shortly after 1 p.m. last Friday, December 6. The unidentified worker, an employee of Douglasville, Ga.-based Bennett Communications, dangled upside-down from the tower, located about 100 yards off Jack Springs Road, near its junction…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Reynolds elected commission chairman
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore attorney Karean Reynolds, elected a year ago to the District 5 seat on the Escambia County (Ala.) Commission, was chosen by his commission peers as the panel’s next chair. The selection came during the commission’s Monday, December 9, meeting. Reynolds, who will replace District 2 Commissioner Raymond Wiggins as the body’s presiding officer, will officially become chairman on January 21. He said the…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago