Author: Don Fletcher

Workers prepare the drainage area that will serve the new hangars. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Crews from Chunchula-based S.C. Stagner Contracting, Inc. continued this week their work on the six new aircraft hangars at Atmore Municipal Airport, the first projection in a list of major improvements planned for the local airfield.The anticipated cost of construction of the hangars is $1,440,240.45 and is 90-percent funded by a Federal Aviation Administration…

Atmore’s high-tech Brown Precision plant ‘mothballed,’ not dead By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Officials of Brown Precision paraphrased American humorist Mark Twain last week, saying that rumors of the local aerospace manufacturing facility’s death are exaggerated. They say the plant still has an economic pulse, although they admit it’s a weak one.Brown Precision, Inc.’s Co-CEO, R. Gregory “Greg” Brown, posted to the Atmore News Facebook page the following statement regarding…

From left, Attorney Kirk Garrett explains a procedural item to BOE member Mike Edwards during the March 14 meeting. BOE member Kevin Hoomes is at right. By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer The dissension that evolved last year among members of the Escambia County Board of Education surfaced again last Thursday, March 14. The question then was a new contract for the former superintendent. This time, the subject of the rift…