Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

Obituaries, week of November 10, 2019
Loretta Lynn Galvan Mrs. Loretta Lynn Galvan, age 52, passed away Tuesday, November 5, 2019 in Pensacola, Fla.  She was a native and life-long resident of Brewton, Ala. She was a contract painter most of her working life and she attended the Shady Grove Holiness Church. She was preceded in death by her father, Robert A. Patton. Mrs. Galvan is survived by her mother, Margaret Patton of Brewton; special friend…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Police seeking masked bandits in bungled burglary
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore police are seeking two men, one of whom wore a Halloween mask, who broke into a Perch Street home last week in an apparent robbery attempt. APD Chief Chuck Brooks said this week that police were called around 8:20 p.m., October 28, by a person at a residence in the 600-block of Perch Street, where the home invasion took place. “Police were called…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
School tax extension vote next Tuesday
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore’s registered voters will decide next Tuesday, November 12, whether a school tax that has been in effect for six decades will be extended for another 20 years. The tax is a 5-mil levy of which the proceeds are earmarked to help pay the salaries, payroll taxes and benefits for several administrative positions at schools within the city, as well as part of the…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
ECHS on failing schools list again
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer For the third straight year, Escambia County High School has been placed on the state’s “failing schools” list. ECHS was one of 74 schools in 28 school districts to earn such a designation under The Alabama Accountability Act. The legislation, enacted in 2013, requires labeling the bottom 6 percent of the state’s public schools — measured by the proficiency of 10th-graders on a standardized…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago
Daycare tragedy
3-year-old boy killed when sister backs car over him By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Rickey Lyons III might have grown up to be a famous doctor, singer or scientist. Now, no one will ever know. The 3-year-old, known affectionately as “Boobie” by family and friends, was struck by a car and killed last Thursday, October 31, as he and another child prepared to leave a local daycare center and…
by Don Fletcher access_time6 years ago