Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

ABC store robbed
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore police and Alabama Law Enforcement Agency personnel continued this week their investigation into the December 21 armed robbery of ABC Beverages Store 41 on North Main Street. “We’re still working on it; it’s still under investigation,” Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks, whose department is the lead agency on the case, said late last week. Police reports show that the robbery occurred around 5…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Toyz for Kidz
LA Bikers: 18 years of playing Santa to local kids By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Although their name might bring up images of cycle-riding California toughs, the members of LA Bikers are anything but. Instead, the group of Lower Alabama motorcyclists has earned the image of a bunch of softies who work year round to make Christmas brighter for families anticipating a dim holiday season. The local motorcycle club…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
City firefighters collect, donate hundreds of toys
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore firefighters — aided by costumed characters from movies, comic books and video games — collected more than 600 toys to help make Christmas brighter for local children, as well as the children of Florida families still trying to recover from a devastating hurricane. Atmore Fire Department Capt. Zack Stewart said this year’s toy drive was expanded and divided into two separate projects. The…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Local students get hands-on lesson in volunteerism
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer More than three dozen junior high and high school students from Atmore Christian School — accompanied by a trio of ACS teachers, a local homeschooled student and seven adults — recently got a hands-on lesson in volunteerism. The group traveled to Blountstown, Fla. and spent a day helping with the massive cleanup that is being conducted across the Florida Panhandle in the aftermath of…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
ECMS students send cards to wounded soldiers
  News Staff Report Teachers who work with students in Escambia County Middle School’s ASTEM Afterschool Program have made writing a major focal point of the reading instruction given after regular school hours. That focus led to two recent projects — one designed to stimulate natural responses from the students to a particular situation, the other to entertain their fellow students. In the first project, ASTEM after-school students wrote cards…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago