Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

Two Ships Passing in the Night
by DON FLETCHER   When Alex Jones and Turner Brooks parted company a year ago after working out together for the last time at Atmore Area YMCA, neither had any idea when their paths might cross again. The local servicemen certainly didn’t expect to bump into each other at a remote, multi-national military outpost more than 8,000 miles from home. But, as Alex (U.S. Navy CDR Alexander L. Jones) prepared…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
New sign provides industrial area with identity
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer According to regional economic development officials, the new sign recently placed at the entrance to Atmore’s Rivercane Industrial Park should give an identity to the park, inform motorists what industries operate within the park and help suppliers more easily find the industry to whom they are delivering. The sign, paid for with surplus money from one of the grants obtained two years ago when…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
WEU buys Helton property for new HQ
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer It won’t happen in the immediate future, but before too long those who come to pay their West Escambia Utilities bills won’t be coming to Atmore City Hall. The utility company, which is not a part of city government but has operated out of city hall for most of its 73-year existence, purchased several months ago the Ridgeley Street property from which Helton Service…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Holman CO arrested
Heroin found during traffic stop By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A Holman Correctional Facility officer was arrested last week by agents of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Drug Task Force, the second time in two weeks she has been charged with drug-related crimes. According to Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks, 52-year-old Regina Ann Bolar of a Ross Road address in Atmore, was arrested June 17 after a traffic stop…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Paternity test leads to courthouse arrest
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Reporter A Pensacola man who showed up at the Escambia County Courthouse on June 6 for the results of a paternity test, was arrested twice, including once inside the courthouse, after he was recognized as the subject of outstanding criminal complaints. Sheriff’s reports show that 23-year-old Kylle Nicholas Cota, who had filed a petition to establish paternity of a child, was arrested inside the courtroom…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago