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Commissioners move ahead on DHR building a new building to house the Tallapoosa County Department of Human Resources. Monday morning, the commissioners took another step forward towards that becoming reality. By a 5-0 vote, the commissioners agreed to sign
By MITCH SNEED Editor
The Tallapoosa County Commissioners have been working diligently for almost two years with the Dadeville City Council as well as state officials to build
meets tomorrow and already they have been shopping for bonds,” said Tallapoosa County Administrator Blake Beck. “Once the authority has the deed, that is the last hurdle. I think the bonds are pretty much automatic and we could see dirt moving very soon now.”
the deed to the property that they purchased late last year over to the Public Building Authority that was formed to handle the constriction. By doing so, the state can now secure the bonds to build the building. “The Building Authority
The need for a new building was first raised in July 2015 and the commissioners began the search for a piece of property. After one site was turned down, the focus moved to the Highway 49 parcel. See DHR • Page 3
Residents question Tallapoosa County 4-H receives Stillwaters property sale ‘Centennial’ designation
By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer
The purchase of a Lake Martin waterfront lot by a Stillwaters Residential board member for what seems like an incredibly low price has prompted a group of residents to cry foul. Stillwaters Residential Association Board Member Pamela Alexander and her husband John purchased .59 acres of waterfront property from the Stillwaters Residential Association in December 2015 for $1,000. The property is adjacent to 1.48 acres of non-waterfront
property the Alexanders have owned for several years. The combined properties were listed for sale June 7 as 2.07 acres with 204.90 feet of waterfront for $225,000 with no home and a dock that was constructed since the 2015 purchase and the combined lots were listed in May of 2015 for $359,000, just five months after the new deed of the waterfront lot was recorded in the Tallapoosa County Probate Judge’s office. The property is under the power lines along the waterfront in the Cardinal See STILLWATERS • Page 3
Council able to proceed with demolition project By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
The planned demolition of dilapidated buildings throughout Dadeville is now able to proceed to the next stage, as the required third bid has been received. “It’s wonderful to get the third one in,” Dadeville Mayor Wayne Smith said. “When you’re dealing with items like this, it can sometimes progress more slowly. There’s a lot of bureaucracy to go through.” Now that the city has the
necessary contractor bids in, City Clerk Mike Gardner believed it might be possible for this to begin going forward within a week. Despite being so close to the ultimate finish line, a couple of small issues had arisen with the paving project on Lafayette Street, including at the intersection of Lafayette Street and Broadnax Street. On some of these issues, the city was awaiting clarification from ALDOT. Once this had been See COUNCIL • Page 5
Many positives to report at County Board of Ed meeting By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
During the Superintendent’s Remarks section of Monday night’s Tallapoosa County Board of Education meeting, Superintendent Joseph Windle reported that the 2016-2017 school year for the county schools had been a good year for everyone involved. Seven Advanced Placement classes were offered at the county schools: U.S. History, Biology, Chemistry, English Composition and Literature, Calculus, Language Arts and Computer Science. Approximately 150 students were enrolled in these courses, which Windle said did not exist until a few years ago. Fifty-five took dual enrollment
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courses offered through Central Alabama Community College and Southern Union State Community College. Students who may have fallen behind on coursework were able to use the Odysseyware program to recover those credits and get them back on track. Over 500 took part in the Access program, a staterun online curriculum, and another 15 completed the Virtual Academy, a full-time online education system. “We’re keeping the Virtual Academy enrollment small so we can keep it at a high quality,” Windle said. Several building projects throughout the county were progressing nicely. The See BOE • Page 5
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Commissioner John McKelvey, George Carleton, Steve Robinson, Emma Jean Thweatt and T.C. Coley receive an award for their support of 4-H from State Director Dr. Paul Brown and Agent Shane Harris Monday.
4-H program honored for hard work and progress By MITCH SNEED Editor
In less than four years, the Tallapoosa County 4-H Program has grown from just 500 members to 1,500 strong. The growth isn’t by accident. Led by Shane Harris, Deborah Stewart, Trent Carboni and Sallie Mason, the program embraced Alabama’s 4-H Centennial Initiative. That meant they went all out to develop programs and activities that were more relevant to the youth that call Tallapoosa County home today.
At Monday’s meeting of the Tallapoosa County Commissioners, the program was honored by Alabama 4-H and its Director Dr. Paul Brown and was given the Alabama 4-H Centennial Initiative designation, an acknowledgement of the hard work and progress in taking the club to places where it will be relevant for the next 100 years. “This is really a day of celebration for the Tallapoosa County 4-H program,” Harris said. “We have worked very hard for the last two or three years. Over that time, it has
been one of our goals to reach this designation.” With the designation comes a full-time 4-H agent for the county. Previously, Stewart had served Tallapoosa and Lee counties. Dr. Brown thanked the commissioners for their support of the program. He said that combined effort is what made the Tallapoosa County 4-H Club the 32nd program in Alabama to reach the designation. “What has happened with this program is remarkable, it really is,” Brown told the See 4-H • Page 3
Dadeville Kiwanis Club: update on ACT II progress By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
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A II Treasurer Larry Jennings shares with the Dadeville ACT Kiwanis Club the same presentation points made when sspeaking to the Alexander City Council.
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The Dadeville Kiwanis Club welcomed Alexander City Theater II Fine Arts Center Treasurer Larry Jennings to their weekly meeting Thursday afternoon. While he holds an accounting degree from Jacksonville State University, Jennings said that he has always had a passion for the arts. He began his presentation with a short history of the events that led to the formation of ACT II. The Lakeside Players organization first took the stage in 1988, putting on four stage performances a year. The group dissolved 10 years later when Russell began to move their operations from Alexander City, leaving the area without any sort of community theater See KIWANIS • Page 5