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are essential for a horse,” Hardy said. “Without it horses can suffer.” Hardy also encouraged others to call when they see animal neglect and abuse. “If you see it call,”
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Alexander City Council meets on the first and third Mondays of each month. Meetings are held in the courtroom at the old city hall at 5:30 p.m. Camp Hill Town Council meets the first and third Mondays of each month. Meetings are held in town hall at 6 p.m. Community Action Agency of Chambers, Tallapoosa, Coosa will holds its regular board of directors meetings every other month at the Central Office in Dadeville. Coosa County Board of Education holds called meetings at least once a month. Coosa County Commission
confidence in our vendor is not shaken. We just have to step up our security.” For now, Blythe said, access to the employee portal portion of the system, through which the school system was providing direct deposit notices and W-2s to its employees, is shut down. She is unsure whether that system is shut down for the duration. The IRS said the scheme consisted of someone from outside the U.S. working with someone in the country. “(The investigator said) it originated out of the country, but they also know that the returns were filed in the U.S.,” Cooper said. “The data was accessed from out of the country, but they sold it to or were working with someone in the states.” Cooper said investigators were unsure of where federal income tax refunds were going and continuing to investigate, but that approximately 12 percent of the fraudulent returns filed with the IRS in the scheme had been processed prior to the IRS becoming aware that taxpayers were being ripped off. Between 2011 and February 2015, the IRS reported that it had blocked approximately $63 billion in fraudulent tax returns. However, in May of last year, the IRS revealed it had suffered its own data breach which resulted in information on approximately 100,000 taxpayers being compromised. That number was raised to approximately 334,000 in August and 724,000 in February of this year.
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Those are desire, dedication and discipline.” Owens spoke by phone from California to those in attendance at the dedication of the Terrell Owens Annex and Reverend Milton Nunn Library addition at Great Bethel Church Sunday. Owens grew up in Great Bethel. “I remember picking him up and bringing him to church,” Great Bethel pastor Rev. Dr. Emerson Ware said. Owens was also grateful for his family and his church family. “I thank my late grandmother Alice Black for exposing me to church,” Owens said. “I cannot express how thankful I am to be from Alexander City and to be a member of Great Bethel Baptist Church from afar.” Sunday’s dedication was attended by two coaches from Owens’ past, Coach Steve Savarese and Willie Carl Martin. Both shared memories of Owens’ dedication and Owens thanked them for helping him along the way. Great Bethel Deacon Jimmy Boleware thought the church would never get the project started that would add more space to the fellowship hall, seven classrooms and the Reverend Milton Nunn Library. “I said we can’t do this,” Boleware said. “God said yes you can. Lord, I don’t have the strength. He said, yes you can. From that time on, I believed in my faith in what God had told me. This project went so smooth. Even the guys that poured the concrete slab said it was the best slab ever.” Owens left everyone with words of encouragement. “If I can make it graduating from Benjamin Russell and coming out of Alexander City and make it, anybody can,” Owens said.
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got back to Town Hall where the father of the siblings was working as a hot dog vendor at New Site Trade Days, the community rallied around the family as they were being transported by the awaiting helicopters. “The New Site community immediately responded by coming together at the event to pray for the injured victims and their family,” Mims said. “Attendees – adults and children alike – gathered around the family to support them through prayer and monetary donations.” McKelvey said both victims had surgery Monday, but indicated that he had received reports Monday that despite multiple fractures and the ordeal, both were responsive. “That is a good family and they still have a long road ahead on them,” McKelvey said. “There are a lot of people praying for them and supporting them.”
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Superintendent of Alexander City Schools Darrell Cooper said the IRS investigator met with school administrators, a representative sampling of victims at each of Alexander City’s five schools and ended the day with an open meeting at Benjamin Russell with all interested employees of the system. “The IRS agent met with us here,” Cooper said Monday. “He met with me, our CFO, Rhonda Blythe, and Keith Lashley, our director of technology. Then he went around to each of the five schools and talked with three or four of the victims at each school. Finally, we had a meeting for our employees at BRHS and I guess a third of our 325 employees were there for an informational meeting.” Cooper said the IRS investigator told school officials that 14 school systems were affected, three in Alabama (Dothan City Schools and Escambia County Schools in addition to Alexander City) and 11 in Mississippi. He said the investigator said the information was obtained through a breach of the computer system at Innovac, a South Carolina-based vendor of financial platforms for schools. Blythe said, despite the breach, the school system will continue to use the Innovac platform. “We’ve been with them for 20 years,” Blythe said. “And I’ve talked with people at Wallace State and they are not with Innovac and they were breached and I talked with someone at another company and they were breached. This is just something that is happening and, hopefully, vendors will find a way to prevent it. But my
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just off the road. “It looks like the truck went off the road on the right side and overcorrected trying to get back on the road,” Weddle said. “It fish-tailed and eventually began to roll. It looks like as many as five times.” New Site Public Safety Director John McKelvey said the call on the accident came in at 12:45 Saturday afternoon. “They both suffered multiple fractures and were in pretty bad shape,” McKelvey said. “The truck had actually rolled over Sam, we believe. We got assistance from Alexander City Fire and Rescue and were able to get them back to town hall where they were airlifted to UAB.” McKelvey praised the response by Alexander City, who were able to offer assistance that the volunteer squad in New Site isn’t certified to perform. Mayor Curtis Mims said that once the young victims
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meets on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. Meetings are held in the Coosa County Courthouse in Rockford at 9:30 a.m. on the second Tuesday and at 6:30 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday. Coosa County Industrial Development Board will hold its regularly scheduled meeting the third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Commissioners’ Board Room in the courthouse in Rockford. All meetings are open to the public. Dadeville City Council meets on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 5 p.m. in city hall. Daviston City Council meets the third Monday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at the Daviston Fire Department. Goldville Town Council meets the second Monday of each month at 5:30 p.m. at the town hall.
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