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Missing Dadeville girl found safe in Georgia By MITCH SNEED Editor
After an emotional day of searching and prayer, a missing 11-year-old Dadeville girl was found safe by a Georgia deputy early Monday morning. According to Tallapoosa County Sheriff Jimmy Abbett, Victoria Skye Smith was located in Walker County, Georgia, not
far from the town of LaFayette at about 8 a.m. Abbett spent much of the day traveling with the girl’s parents to pick her up, he said he hoped to have more details soon. A press release is planned once Abbett has more information. “We have talked with authorities and have been able to talk with the girl by phone,� Abbett said. “She spoke with her
parents and that really gave them a sense of relief. She is alive and healthy and we are thankful of that and to all involved in bringing this to a positive conclusion.� Her location brought to a close more than 24 anxious hours for her family, friends and law enforcement. The Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s Department issued an
Emergency Missing Child Alert at 12:53 p.m. Sunday after receiving a call at 6:48 a.m. reporting the girl as missing from the Murphy Dam Lake area located off Highway 50 in Dadeville. Law enforcement put out photos and a description as to the clothing she was wearing. She was believed to have left the home of a relative on
First Presbyterian to close long-running day school
Suspects in bar fire, drug trafficking, sex abuse cases are sentenced
By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
Since the early 1960s, the First Presbyterian Church of Alexander City has offered local children an education opportunity as a way to be prepared to start kindergarten. Despite being an excellent way to help children with the basics of shapes, numbers and letters, the church will no longer be offering its day school after August 4, ending a long-standing educational tradition within the community. When the day school at First Presbyterian was first established, there was no other preschool
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Top: Dogs, alpacas and chickens wait with their people while taking the stage at the Sun Festival Dawg-Gawn Parade. Left: Alabama cheerleaders Minnie and Elodie Waller of Alexander City wait their turn before taking the stage. For more photos of Sun Festival from this weekend, see page 10 inside.
SUN FESTIVAL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Today
Pie in the Sky Treasure Hunt 6:05 a.m. KidsFest Healthy Living 10 a.m. - noon Bingo 2:30 - 4 p.m.
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Morgan Baker dances with his daughter Karleigh at the First Presbyterian Day School’s Spring Dance in March.
Show Me the Movie 3 - 5 p.m. Hittin’ the Links Glow -in-the-Dark Golf Tournament 5:30 p.m. Drone Race & Training Day 5:30 p.m.
It was a day full of emotion in the courtroom of Judge Ray Martin as he sentenced the two defendants from the arson of Colonel Tom’s, Stanley Holloway on trafficking and Christopher Carleton on sexual abuse Monday morning. Martin heard emotional pleas from both victims and defendants from the arson of Colonel Tom’s about how they hoped the incident would turn lives around for the defendants. Last month the See SENTENCES • Page 3
Are majorettes a dying art? By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
With high school band camps set to kick off within the next couple of weeks, the newest crop of musicians will begin preparing for another season of exciting halftime entertainment. However, in some places throughout Alabama, one element will be missing from practices and performances: majorettes. Originating in the Rhineland of See MAJORETTES • Page 3
Robinson Iron helps refurbish three iconic landmarks By MITCH SNEED Editor
Fountain Square Park is the focal point of the city of Bowling Green, Kentucky and the park is in the process of getting a major facelift. While work at a park in Kentucky may not seem like news here in Alexander City, there is a very important local connection. The largest part of that major renovation involves Alex City’s Robinson Iron. The centerpiece of the park is a large fountain, called “Hebe, the goddess of youth.� Earlier this week, workers from Robinson Iron were in Kentucky and disassembled the massive fountain. The piece featured four sections and they carefully loaded it for transport back to their shop here to refurbish the fountain. The job required
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a crane and a lot of manpower to make sure that all of the components could be transported without incident. The fountain was originally installed in the park in May 1881, although many of the pieces of the current fountain are from more recent renovations. The fountain has had issues with leaks and needs a general facelift. The fountain is not scheduled to be reinstalled until the end of the renovations in November. That’s just one of several high-profile projects that the company is involved with currently. Robinson is also handling work on the cupola atop the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville, according to Scotty Howell of Robinson Iron. “It’s a Greek Revival building with lots of detailed metal accents at the
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The centerpiece of Fountain Square Park in Kentucky is getting a facelift, with Robinson Iron refurbishing it.
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