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Lighting the way for Alexander City & Lake Martin since 1892 March 30, 2016 Vol. 124, No. 64 www.alexcityoutlook.com
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City school employees hit with fraudulent tax claims By DAVID GRANGER Staff Writer
Approximately 33 employees of the Alexander City Board of Education have had fraudulent tax returns filed in their names. Alexander City Superintendent Darrell Cooper said he initially became aware of the situation on
Friday and that the number of incidents has continued to grow since then. “I became aware of it first on Friday,” Cooper said. “But it appears to have been an ongoing thing since then.” Cooper said the school board has been in touch with the Alabama Supercomputer Authority, which
provides Internet access and other network services to all of the state’s public K-12 schools, Innovak, which is the provider of the service platform for all of the school system’s financials, the Alabama State Department of Education and the Alexander City Police Department. See TAX • Page 7
Task Force makes drug arrests
Mitch Sneed / The Outlook
Wolfgang Hank, Klaus Steiner, Tim Wellborn and Andre Springer pose for a picture with their DeLoreans outside the Wellborn Musclecar Museum Tuesday. Below, Hank gets a lesson on the Dodge Hemi engine.
BACK TO THE FUTURE: DeLoreans pay visit to Musclecar Museum
By MITCH SNEED Editor
German trio making trip around the world
A routine traffic stop led to a high-speed chase involving multiple agencies Tuesday with the suspect being arrested on drug charges. Before the day was Easterwood over, that stop would lead to two additional drugs arrests as well. The Tallapoosa Hayes County Narcotics Task Force, along with investigators and deputies were watching Henderson a known See BUST • Page 7
By MITCH SNEED Editor
Cliff Williams / The Outlook
Retired teacher Edweina Kilpatrick colors in the sun room of Chapman’s Assisted Living Friday. Kilpatrick and other residents have taken up the hobby, meeting a couple of times a week.
INSIDE THE LINES
It was a real case of “Back to the Future” for three DeLorean-driving German men who made a stop at the Wellborn Musclecar Museum on their year-long DeLorean Work Tour. Klaus Steiner, Wolfgang Hank and Andre Springer left Germany in September of last year and have now covered Europe, Asia, down to Australia and are
now on the final swing of their United States leg. The group is working their way to Belfast, Ireland in May to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Fred DeLorean’s dream stainless steel machine, which was made famous by its featured role in the films starring Michael J. Fox. Why a visit to Alexander City? “We were in Florida See TRIP • Page 7
Young-at-heart students color in the ‘classroom’ By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer
Students at area schools are not the only ones with homework now days. Some residents at Chapman’s Assisted Living are holding their nose to the grindstone too just like the younger generations. “Mrs. Bolan and I, we get together after dinner until about 8:30 or 9 and color,” Jeanette Johnson said. “We See COLORING • Page 7
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Collari meets with Young Professionals The Lake Martin Young Professionals held a meet-and-greet with new Alexander City Chamber of Commerce president Ed Collari and membership drive at Emporium Wine Monday evening.
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The town of New Site will have electronic vote counting for the first time ever for its municipal elections later this year. At Monday’s meeting of the town council, Mayor Curtis Mims updated the council on the agreement with the county to use the new devices. “We’ve worked it out so we can go to the machines this time around,” said Mims, who declared Monday that he will seek another term as mayor. “I think that will streamline the process and make it easier all the way around.” The council also decided not to participate in the state’s Back to School Tax Holiday which is planned Aug. 6-7. Part of the reasoning is the date doesn’t fall in line with the opening of area schools.
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