Author: Don Fletcher

Poarch man, 65, arrested in neighbor’s shooting death White By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer UPDATED TO CORRECT SITE OF MURDER A 65-year-old Poarch man remained in the Escambia County Detention Center without bond at midweek, charged with murder in the Saturday, August 26, shooting death of a neighbor.Reports show Escambia County Sheriff’s Office deputies, Poarch Tribal Police officers and Atmore Police Department officers responded to Quarry Village Mobile Home Park,…

Residence hit by gun fire By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore police are investigating an August 24 incident during which a person was wounded when someone fired several gunshots into a Brooks Lane residence.Atmore Police Department Sgt. Darrell McMann reported that officers were sent to the 100 block of Brooks Lane around 8:55 p.m. after dispatchers relayed a report of shots fired.Officers discovered a residence had been hit by gunfire,…

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer The Escambia County Board of Education followed up a stormy workshop with a calm regular meeting, during which the board quietly approved total expenditures of more than half-a-million dollars, most of it for math and reading improvement programs for Special Education teachers and students with special needs. The biggest purchase was of Read180 and Math180 intervention and academic acceleration programs from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,…

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer The Escambia County Board of Education’s workshop, held last Thursday (August 24) prior to the board’s regular monthly meeting, went smoothly for about an hour. Then it hit a rough patch, and another rough patch, and another.The only item on the workshop agenda was a self-evaluation by Superintendent of Education Michele McClung of her performance during the almost two years she has held the job.“This…