Author: Don Fletcher

City council approves FY2025 financing plan By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore City Council members gave unanimous approval, as expected, to a $15.48 million financing package to cover operations for the upcoming fiscal year, which begins October 1 and ends September 30, 2025.The total of $15,483,460 reflects a six-percent increase over FY2024’s budget and does not include pay raises for city employees.As is usually the case, Atmore Police Department will…

Estimated 1,000-plus attend Atmore’s annual food fair Chamber Youth Ambassadors offered New Orleans style food. Cade Leachman is at far left, Mary Joyner Dean at far right. Under the tent are Eli McElhaney, left, and Logan Madden, right. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Many of the 16 “vendors” who set up shop last Thursday, September 19, at Atmore’s annual Taste of the South event remembered last year, when a record…

Amanda Gray with P.E.I.R., left, with winning ticket. At right is organizer Eunice Johnson. Robin Stewart, left, and Candace Wooten with the Atmore Police Department By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore’s first three Patterson Street Fun Day celebrations, although they served their purpose, were plagued with blistering August heat, so organizers moved it to September. It didn’t matter.Kids and adults sought shelter under tents or shade trees as the temperature…

From left, Greg Babiak, Amanda Gibbs and Tony Gibbs pose under the Scout hut’s new porch roof. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer The unveiling last Thursday (September 19) of the “new” meeting place for local Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts went pretty much unnoticed.Although about 1,000 people gathered for the annual Taste of the South, held at Heritage Park, just a few yards from the Scout hut’s location, only one…