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Citizens turn out to support Alex City as regional college home By DAVID GRANGER Staff Writer
Some 125 people filled the Betty Carol Graham Technology Center at Alexander’s Central Alabama Community College Monday night to let their feelings be known about some of the key questions surrounding the consolidation of CACC with two other community colleges in east Alabama. The consolidation of CACC with Southern
Union State Community College and Chattahoochee Valley Community College has been ongoing since November. Plans are for the consolidation to be complete in June of 2017. CACC President Susan Burrow, who will lead the new consolidated institution, gave a brief presentation on the reasons for and benefits of the consolidation before turning the meeting Kenneth Boone / The Outlook over to those in attendance to ask questions, pre- CACC President Dr. Susan Burrow addresses a crowd gathered at a town hall - style dominantly those aimed at where the meeting on the proposed merger of CACC, Southern Union and Chattahoochee See MERGER • Page 11 Valley Community College into a regional institution.
Alex City Walmart employees benefit from pay hike plan
Council eyes resolution for Sunday sales vote by people
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Monday was like Christmas for many of the 283 employees at the Walmart in Alexander City. The employees all saw their pay increase as a result what the retail chain called “the largest single-day, private-sector pay increase ever.” According to company spokesman Eddie Lard, the move will mean that the minimum amount paid to any non-probationary employee will be $10 per hour. “What it means is that essentially, the minimum wage for Walmart employees is now $10 per hour,” Lard said. “The actual amount of the increases will vary, depending on where the employee is on the scale and the job classification.” Lard said that increases can be as much as $3 an hour and in some cases the
Enough tires to outfit almost a dozen vehicles, oversized televisions, gas and Freon tanks and almost two truckloads of bottles and cans were just part of what city workers were forced to deal with Monday after an illegal dump site was found off B Street in Alexander City. The dump was on city property that backs up to the cemetery and it took almost a dozen city employees nearly a full day’s labor to clean up and haul away the mess. “They saw some debris while working at the cemetery and had gotten a few calls about
Residents of Alexander City may get the opportunity to vote on whether the sales of alcohol should be allowed on Sunday, if the city council approves a resolution at tonight’s meeting. An agenda item calling for support of “a bill to hold a referendum on a date and time that the city deems appropriate to determine whether the citizens of the City of Alexander City support the sales of alcohol on Sunday.” While there has been no public discussion about the possibility of putting the move before the voters by the Alexander City City Council, several council members say the public deserves to decide the issue for themselves. “I think this is an issue that should be voted on and decided by the people,” Councilman Tony Goss said. “It’s much too important for the council to take it upon themselves to decide or for them not to let the people be heard.” The Tallapoosa County Commissioners started the process rolling last fall and asked for local legislation to be introduced after several business leaders asked them to consider it.
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Alexander CIty Public Works employees spent hours Monday morning cleaning up an illegal dump site on B Street, on city property just behind the city cemetary. Law enforcement was on the scene to investigate, but finding the people responsible will be tough due to the wide range of items discovered.
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Traveling schoolmarm tells of early schoolhouses By DAVID GRANGER Staff Writer
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They call Susan Webb “the traveling schoolmarm.” And the Birmingham resident and Iowa native’s interests in the schoolhouses and schoolrooms of yesteryear have taken her across the country, from the tiny square schoolhouses on Connecticut to the larger, more architecturally efficient Julius Rosenwald schoolhouses of the South. But on Monday Webb’s travels brought her to Alexander City where she gave a presentation based on her love for the history of education in our country to the Horizons at the Alexander City Board of Education building on Lee Street. Webb, who taught for 20 years in six different states, “One of the schools I taught at in Birmingham, the students went on a field trip to an environmental school in the Smokey Mountains for a week,” Webb said. “It was sixth graders and it was wonderful. There was no technology, we all ate in a commissary-type situation One of the field trips there was out into the mountains into a one-room school and there was an elderly lady there who took the students through
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