Author: Don Fletcher

2 qualify for District 2 council seat By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer As qualifying for Atmore city offices enters its second week, one candidate who initially filed papers to seek the District 1 city council seat being vacated by Webb Nall, will now run instead against District 2 incumbent Jerome Webster.Andreas Grant, who filed qualifying papers last week to challenge Bob Turk for the seat Nall has held for the…

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Gov. Kay Ivey recently signed legislation aimed at curbing gun violence and other violent crimes within the state.The new law imposes stiffer penalties on those who use firearms in the commission of a crime, and on parolees and probationers who are found to be in possession of a gun. It also expands the bail provisions and restrictions of the state’s Aniah’s Law.Senate Bill 119 makes…

Jamal Roberts, accompanied by daughters Harmony and Lyric, is flanked by City Clerk Becca Smith, at left, and Acting Mayor Shawn Lassiter as he shows the crowd the caricature drawn by Kathy Buskett. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Things looked bleak for Atmore’s Bee More Summer Festival last Saturday morning (June 14), as a series of thunderstorms and brief rain showers swept across the community, bringing only a relative handful…

Hutto By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer For the past 12 years, Jenny Hutto has worked tirelessly on behalf of local veterans as a member of Atmore’s Memorial VFW Auxiliary 7016. Her work hasn’t gone unnoticed.Jenny, who started as a volunteer with the local veterans service organization and slowly worked her way up the VFW Auxiliary ladder, was installed Sunday (June 15) as president of VFW Auxiliary Department of Alabama.The new…

City’s new Mayor Pro Tem Jerome Webster, left, is sworn in as Mayor Pro Tem by Municipal Court Judge Karean Reynolds. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Acting Mayor Shawn Lassiter’s first Atmore City Council meeting, held Monday, June 9, went smoothly and provided a preview of things to come.Lassiter, who vowed that most meetings would be different, especially in that they would last longer than those in the past and…