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Council hears future is bright in Dadeville By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer
Things are looking up in Dadeville and to hear Mayor Wayne Smith tell it, it has been a long time coming. Smith and Dadeville Council members heard from Gary Ingram Paving at Tuesday’s meeting about the hold up on finishing up the Lafayette
Street paving project. “They have another week’s worth of work to do,” Smith said. “They have been waiting on the state to get with them about some issues especially the hole at Broadnax near Bob’s.” The state has now given the contractor the go ahead on some cleanup and cement work. “The work should be completed in
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Smith explained that things are looking up for some new businesses. “There is a lot of talk about the old IGA building,” Smith said. “There is also a lot of talk about things on Highway 280 and Highway 49.” The council also: • heard about the Tallapoosa County Commission approving their portion of See COUNCIL • Page 2
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Once again the Tallapoosa County Narcotics Task Force has taken illegal drugs off the streets as evidenced by the recent 11 arrests. Thursday and Friday this week, the Tallapoosa County Narcotics Task Force along with the U.S. Marshal Fugitive Task Force, the Tallassee Police Department, the Alexander City Police Department, the Jacksons Gap Police Department, the Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s Department and the Dadeville Police Department executed search warrants in Dadeville and Jacksons Gap. The warrants were obtained as a result of controlled buys. “It was from an undercover operation over the last couple of months,” said Sgt. Fred White of the Tallapoosa County Narcotics Task Force. The operation netted buys of crack cocaine, methamphetamines, marijuana and synthetic marijuana. On Thursday and Friday, investigators See ARRESTS • Page 3
During its weekly meeting, the Dadeville Kiwanis Club welcomed D the th Chief of Compliance for Ivy Creek Healthcare, Agustin Latorre. C Latorre began his talk discussing how ho Ivy Creek had grown recently and an what the plans were for service expansion in the near future. ex Currently, the group has three C hospitals it runs in Alabama and ho is looking to add a few more to the th system. This includes being in the th final stages of an agreement to acquire the hospital in Greenville, ac the th seat of Butler County, according to Latorre. See KIWANIS • Page 2
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the next few weeks,” Smith said. Smith also commended a group of young men who have returned home to help their community. Kingz United was recognized at the council meeting for its efforts. “This group organized a cleanup,” Smith said. “They took part in the last cleanup and are organizing a back to school drive too with a fundraiser.”
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Top bass fishermen will be on Lake Martin for the Bassmaster tournament Feb. 8-11.
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The Bassmaster Elite Series released its it tournament schedule Monday and it was w confirmed the season opener for the top to tournament trail in the world will be right here on Lake Martin. ri The top bass fishermen in the world will w be in Alexander City on Feb. 8-11. Officials say Lake Martin, which is O known for its healthy population of k spotted bass, was a regular stop for sp Bassmaster events during the late 1990s B and an early 2000s. But the last time B.A.S.S. visited the 44,000-acre lake B on o the Tallapoosa River for a high-level event was in November 2002. e The event coming to Lake Martin could be a huge economic boost for the c
area. Typically the tournaments bring teams in for four days, complete with a fishing expo, tournament officials and television crews. Under current Elite Series rules, anglers are allowed to obtain information about a fishery until the official off-limit period goes into effect four weeks prior to an event. “It means a lot of things will change, including no more sharing of waypoints of hot spots found by other fishermen,” said B.A.S.S. Tournament Director Trip Weldon. “The no-information rule has the support of the Elite anglers — and it will make it more important than ever for everyone to be able to go out and find their own fish.” See BASSMASTER • Page 5
By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer
Jacksons Gap’s Town Council is attempting to improve the town’s image not only for visitors but for its residents. The council is looking into purchasing the old radio station property for the purpose of moving the town hall for safety concerns, creating a park for residents and having space to build a bigger building for court. “The building that is out there would be for town hall,” Mayor Jeff Walker said. “We would purchase a See TOWN HALL • Page 3
Commission consider service to speed up voting process cumbersome paper rosters.” Tallapoosa County Probate Judge Leon Archer brought the The Tallapoosa County proposal to Monday’s commission Commission is considering meeting. electronic poll books, something “It is a very impressive way that would speed up the voting when voters come in to vote and process for voters on election day. identify them,” Archer said. The system was piloted in the Archer invited Bobby Fricke last presidential election with to explain the system to the success. commission. “This equipment was piloted in “Basically the idea is this will 22 of Alabama’s counties in the replace the large lists (at the polls) 2016 General Election, has been to look up voters,” Fricke said. shown to dramatically reduce voter “It eliminates the need for section wait time by 60 to 75 percent,” lines and makes things go faster. Alabama Secretary of State John It eliminates human error and Merrill said in a release. “These streamlines the process.” systems have also been shown Fricke’s demonstration showed to virtually eliminate the user See VOTING • Page 3 errors which often exist with By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer
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The Tallapoosa County Commission was given a presentation on Poll Pad at Monday’s meeting. Poll Pad is a system used at voter check in for elections to eliminate human error.