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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2016
Judge sends McDaniel to jail Bond revoked as a result of recent arrest in Auburn on criminal mischief charges Davis Whittelsey, before ordering McDaniel to be taken into custody. McDaniel is charged with murder in the Jan. 17 shooting death of Norman Dean Crayton, but has been out on a $250,000 bond pending trial, but prosecutors filed a motion for bond revocation after his arrest in Auburn for third-degree criminal mischief. One of the conditions of his
By MITCH SNEED Editor
Accused killer Matthew Clate McDaniel was sent to the Tallapoosa County Jail Wednesday for violating the condition of the bond he posted after being arrested for murder. Judge Kim Taylor heard from Assistant District Attorney Michael Weldon as well as defense attorney
Clate McDaniel makes his way up the steps of the Tallapoosa County Courthouse Wednesday.
bond was to not break the law or be arrested, Weldon said. According to court records, McDaniel was arrested by the Auburn Police Department on Sept. 24 for third-degree criminal mischief after a Sept. 19 incident where McDaniel was allegedly recorded on video surveillance on See MCDANIEL • Page 5
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Local jobless rate remains low at 5.1%
Council gets good financial review
By MITCH SNEED Editor
Tallapoosa County’s jobless rate remained steady in September at 5.1 percent, unchanged from August and down from the 5.8 percent unemployment rate recorded in the county in September 2015. Those numbers mean that for the last two months Tallapoosa County’s jobless rate is at a nine-year low. The last time the level was lower was in October 2007, when the rate was 5.0 percent. According to numbers released Friday, Tallapoosa’s results were in line with the state, which saw seasonally adjusted September unemployment rate of 5.4 percent, unchanged from August’s rate and significantly lower than September 2015’s rate of 6.1 percent. “Our unemployment rate held steady this month, remaining at its lowest point during my administration, which also happens to be its lowest point in more than eight years,” said Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley in a released statement. “We are continuing to see record low numbers of people who are unemployed, with September’s count marking the second lowest number of unemployed since 2008. We are continuing our efforts to ensure that every Alabamian who wants a job has one and these numbers show we
By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer
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Greg Lein, Alabama State Parks director, speaks about the benefits of voting Yes on Amendment 2 at a press conference at Wind Creek State Park Tuesday afternoon.
SAVE OUR PARKS Lein heads Q&A session on Amendment 2 By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer
Some confusion seems to have surrounded Alabama’s Constitutional Amendment 2 because of a mistake made in publishing absentee ballots for the upcoming November election. Alabama State Parks Director Greg Lein was at Wind Creek State Park Tuesday to
The City of Dadeville is in good financial shape and is eight years away from being debt free despite an accounting change that shows a new $790,000 liability. As part of a 2015 audit, accountant Ben Vance made a presentation at Tuesday’s council meeting telling them the city is in good shape. “Overall the city’s debt went down $200,000 and your bottom line went up $1.1 million,” Vance said. “That is a pretty good result.” Vance also explained the city’s debt situation is good. “When you look at debt on the general fund, it is as low as it has been in some time,” Vance said. “All of the debt is scheduled to be paid off by 2024. There are not many towns around that have that short of a debt period.” The accounting change for governments now makes See COUNCIL • Page 12
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See UNEMPLOYMENT • Page 11
Haggerty talks 9-1-1 to Dadeville Kiwanis Haggerty was the featured speaker at the Dadeville Kiwanis Club’s weekly lunch on Thursday at the First Presbyterian Church. Haggerty, who was a cheerleader and K Club Back in the early 1990s after Tallapoosa County sweetheart at Dadeville High School, began with a citizens approved a 9-1-1 system for the county, it fell to the county to make sure that all its roads had little history of the 9-1-1 system and the first 9-1-1 call ever anywhere. Surprisingly, it took place in names. Haleyville in 1958. According to Anita Haggerty, Tallapoosa And, she added, while 9-1-1 is, in some ways, County’s 9-1-1 coordinator who has been with the in its relative infancy, more helpful features are on county system since its existence, one road was their way. particularly problematic. “We’re still working to get 9-1-1 where it really “Every house we went to down that road, the people would tell us, ‘Folks always come down here needs to be and that is called Next Gen – Next Generation 9-1-1,” said Haggerty. “With Next Gen, looking for another road and we have to tell them this ain’t it.’ And they wanted the road named ‘This Ain’t It.’ It’s This Ain’t It Road to this day.” See KIWANIS • Page 11 By DAVID GRANGER Staff Writer
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