Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

Neal AP arrested
Charged with roughing up 5th-grader By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Sheriff Heath Jackson reported last week that W.S. Neal Middle School assistant principal Donald Eugene Hardyman Jr, 56, of Brewton, was taken into custody after a county grand jury voted to formally accuse him of a criminal act for allegedly roughing up a fifth-grade student at the Brewton school. According to Escambia County Detention Center records, Hardyman is charged…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Former Neal AP charged with willful child abuse
Donald Eugene Hardyman, a former assistant principal at W.S. Neal Middle School, was arrested August 30 after an investigation into altercation between Hardyman and a student. Escambia County Sheriff Heath Jackson reported that sheriff’s officers were called to the Escambia County Board of Education’s Central Office August 9 to investigate a complaint of the altercation. The results of the ECSO investigation were presented to a grand jury, which handed up…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Man paid for car with bogus bills
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer An Atmore man was arrested August 20, two months and a day after he allegedly switched genuine money for counterfeit money while purchasing a used car from a Florida man. Escambia County (Fla.) Sheriff’s Office investigators worked on the case for two months before locating Matthew Cody Blair, 28, of a Williams Lane address, and taking him into custody. According to the Escambia County…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Alabama Power’s upgrades project continues
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer An upgrade of the Alabama Power Company poles and wiring along Atmore streets, a project that began late in 2018, has exceeded its halfway point but is still several months away from completion. “We are making upgrades to our electrical system in Atmore,” said Beth Thomas, External Affairs Manager for the utility company’s Mobile region. “We are replacing some of our older equipment —…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Crash on Pineville Road
AFD, Nokomis VFD respond to isolated location By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore Fire Department personnel were among the first responders called to the isolated rural scene of an August 29 single-vehicle crash that left a 74-year-old Baldwin County man in critical condition. According to Florida Highway Patrol reports, Melvin Leonce Carpenter was driving his 2002 GMC 1500 northward on Pineville Road, just north of Jake Road, in northwestern…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago