Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

Former ECHS coach hired at Robertsdale
Royce Young, who was head football coach and athletic director at Escambia County High School the past three years, has been hired as head girls basketball coach and assistant football coach at Robertsdale High School. Young’s new job was formally approved during the Baldwin County Board of Education’s Thursday night (July 20) meeting. Escambia County’s Blue Devils went 4-26 under Young’s tutelage. His tenure represented a three-year span during which…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Leadership donates to Atmore Community Fund
The Leadership Atmore Class of 2017 donated $4,000 to the Atmore Community Fund, an affiliate fund of the Community Foundation of South Alabama. Shown at the presentation are, from left, Fund committee member Dale Ash; Fund committee Chairwoman Audrey Moon; Leadership Atmore members Andrew Garner, Paul Chason, Stephanie Bell, Class President Hannah Johnson, Emmie Jernigan, Doug Tanner, Cody Vickrey; Fund committee member Bub Gideons.
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Lifesaving device
Atmore SAIL Center Director Charlotte Purvis displays the senior center’s newly acquired Automated External Defibrillator, used for shocking a heart back into rhythm. Those instrumental in getting the device for the center are, from left, Mayor Jim Staff; retired paramedic Don Smith, who pushed for the life-saving device, and Foster Kizer, who obtained the AED through a grant from the Wedgewood Foundation. Purvis is trained in the use of the…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Presiding judge discusses digital record-keeping, addiction
Judge Bert Rice, the presiding circuit court judge for the Escambia County Judicial Circuit, pointed out last week that Alabama leads the nation in two separate but related statistics. One, involving the state’s courts, he is proud of; the other, which is helping drive an increase in criminal cases heard in those courts, is not a source of pride. “One of the best things about Alabama’s courts is because of…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
YMCA’s Ugly Truck Contest – ‘White Trash Millionaire’ again takes top honors
Jeriemie Bryars doesn’t make any bones about the fact that most people consider his graffiti-covered 1974 Chevrolet pickup one of the area’s ugliest vehicles. In fact, he likes for people to think that, especially judges. The judges for Atmore Area YMCA’s second annual Ugly Truck Contest had little problem last Saturday (July 22) in forming that same opinion. The panel chose Bryars’s tricked-out “White Trash Millionaire” as the winner of…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago