Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

EA’s Odom earns first-team AISA All-State slot
Odom By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Quinton Odom, a senior defensive back for Escambia Academy’s Cougars, was one of two high school football players from Escambia County named to the first team of their respective classification’s All-State squad for 2023.Odom was one of three EA players chosen by the Alabama Sportswriters Association (ASWA) for recognition among Alabama’s best independent school defensive players for the season just past.The 6-foot-7, 190-pound two-way…
by Don Fletcher access_time2 years ago
WEU awarded $1.4M for downtown sewer improvements
Smith By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Alabama Department of Environmental Management officials announced recently that the agency has awarded $1.4 million of federal funds to West Escambia Utilities (WEU) that will provide much-needed improvements to the ancient sanitary sewer system in downtown Atmore.Kenny Smith, manager of the utility company that provides gas, water and sewer to Atmore and the surrounding area, said the funds — from the American Rescue Plan…
by Don Fletcher access_time2 years ago
Atmore men turned down by parole board
Hazley By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Two Atmore men — one of them convicted for the third time of carrying a pistol after having previously been convicted of a violent felony — were rejected for parole during recent hearings by the Alabama Board of Pardons & Paroles.Robert Chad Hazley has served just over eight months of a 20-year sentence he received earlier this year after he was convicted on two…
by Don Fletcher access_time2 years ago
Felony arrests
Miss. man jailed for leaving scene of crash with injury Taylor Roeder McNeal By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A Mississippi man who ran the stop sign at the junction of North Main and Liberty streets on Christmas Eve, crashed into another vehicle and fled the scene immediately afterward was eventually located and arrested by Atmore police and now faces five charges, including a felony.Atmore Police Department Sgt. Darrell McMann reported…
by Don Fletcher access_time2 years ago
Nothing but trouble
Empty-handed juveniles arrested for series of vehicle break-ins By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Six juveniles who broke into a series of vehicles along East Laurel Street last week got nothing but trouble for their trouble.Atmore police reported December 19 that the six teens — all between the ages of 14 and 17 —were taken into custody after officers spotted “several suspicious people” in the city street’s 700 block. Four of…
by Don Fletcher access_time2 years ago