Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

RPES honored
  Chosen Bicentennial School of Excellence By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer When Rachel Patterson Elementary School was selected a year ago as one of 200 Bicentennial Schools in Alabama, the school was required to use its accompanying $2,000 grant to fund a community betterment project. That project, along with the successful implementation of it, has earned the school even higher accolades. RPES was selected as one of 21 Alabama…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Road, bridge repair funds possible
Council approves gas-tax projects list By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore City Council members gave unanimous approval to two measures in preparation for receiving future funding from two separate road and bridge repair and improvement initiatives. Councilors adopted a transportation plan that will allow them to apply for the next round of funding from the Rebuild Alabama Act and authorized the city’s engineering firm, Civil Southeast, to make application…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Census 2020
City to form complete count committee By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Although no vote was taken by the city council during their meeting August 26, Atmore Mayor Jim Staff presented a proclamation supporting the 2020 Census and promising formation of a “complete count committee” to help promote local participation in the 10-year population update. The local committee has not yet been selected, but the proclamation reads that the city…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Tax abatements tabled
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Abstentions by two different Atmore City Council members prevented immediate approval of separate resolutions to grant tax abatements for two local businesses during the council’s Monday, August 26, meeting. The abatement requests came from Alto Products Corp. of Atmore, which was asking for relief from property taxes on several pieces of new equipment, and H.O. Weaver & Sons, which wants the same relief for…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Obituaries for week of August 28, 2019
William Timothy Burl Thomley Mr. William Timothy Burl Thomley, age 51, of Perdido, Ala., passed away Tuesday, August 20, 2019 in Mobile, Ala. He was a commercial truck driver most of his life. He was born in Atmore, Ala. to Joseph B. and Betty Weeks Thomley. Mr. Thomley is survived by his parents; a son, Adam Thomley of Ohio; one brother, Joey (Sherry) Thomley of Perdido, and one sister Donna…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago