Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

Academic All-Stars
Rotary honors 146 students from 4 local schools By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer For the 34th successive year, Atmore Rotary Club continued to “build a tradition of excellence” through the recognition of local and area students who stood head and shoulders above most of their classmates. The local civic group’s annual Academic All-Stars program, held Thursday, May 9, at Escambia County High School’s Hodnette Auditorium, resulted in certificates of…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Execution set
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Alabama Department of Corrections officials announced this week that an Alabama man, convicted and sentenced to die more than 20 years ago for his role in the 1997 slayings of four Shelby County residents, is scheduled for execution this Thursday. Michael Brandon Samra, 42, is set to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. on May 16 at William C. Holman Correctional Facility near…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Child hurt in crash
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Neither driver was injured, but a baby was transported to a local hospital after a two-vehicle collision that happened Saturday morning on Jack Springs Road. The crash took place around 10:30 a.m., just in front of The Pines II apartment complex, when a 1995 GEO Prism, driven by 28-year-old Mollica Spencer of Atmore, rear-ended a 2004 GMC Sierra driven by Eugene Leslie, 57, of…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Land deal fails again
Council still at impasse over 10-acre hospital plot By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Members of the Atmore City Council remained at an impasse, failing for the third time in eight months to make a decision on a request by local healthcare officials for 10 acres of prime land on which a new hospital could be built. A late change to the agenda brought the issue before the council during…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Lupus awareness walk set for May 18
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Anyone who has suffered from or had a loved one suffer from lupus knows how devastating the disease can be. Natalie Coates wants others to know that, too. Coates is the driving force behind the first Lupus Walk, an event designed to raise awareness of the long-term autoimmune disease that strikes a reported 16,000 people in the U.S. each year and can be fatal.…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago