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State School Superintendent Sentance resigns STAFF REPORT TPI Staff
Controversy has been synonymous with State Superintendent of Education Michael Sentance since the day he was hired. Wednesday, he decided enough was enough. After months of questions and being handed unfavorable performance reviews, Sentance submitted his resignation to Governor Kay Ivey, as President of the Board of Education. Sentance told AL.com that he worked out an agreement. Most believed that a vote would have come Thursday by the state school board to terminate him. See SENTANCE • Page A3
Legacy Builders prepares for Commitment 2017 By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
Working in conjunction with the local Fellowship of Christian Athletes clubs, the group Legacy Builders is getting ready to hold Commitment 2017, a nondenominational worship and fellowship service at the Betty Carol Graham Center at 7 p.m. Tuesday. “This is the first time we’ve done something like this,” Legacy Builders member Billy Coleman said. “Legacy Builders has been meeting for about a year and a half now. We started planning this back in See LEGACY • Page A3
Council praises readiness
Gives thanks to area officials for work during storm, prepares for future events By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
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C of Dadeville crews, police officers and the Alabama Department of Transportation were out repairCity ing the traffic light at the intersection of Highway 280 and Lafayette Street Monday morning. The light in had been out for a good portion of the weekend. h
Area dodges worst of Irma By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
The Dadeville City Council took some time during their meeting Tuesday s night to give special thanks to those who n worked hard over the weekend and on w Monday to deal with issues popping up M from Tropical Storm Irma. f “Everyone was out helping,” Mayor Wayne Smith said. “The fire M department, the police department, the d street department. Even the cemetery s department was out there.” d Police Chief David Barbour agreed with w this, saying it meant a lot to him to see all the city’s departments coming together and work the way they did to See COUNCIL • Page A9
Downed trees and power lines, a few scattered weather related traffic accidents is what Dadeville and the Lake Martin community experienced as what was left of Tropical Storm Irma came through the area. Schools were closed Monday and Tuesday to assure student safety as about 3 inches of rain doused the area and winds with gusts up to 50 mph caused some scattered damage. For the most part, the area fared pretty well and officials say preparedness was a bog factor in the safe results. Readiness was the name of the game as police departments, fire departments and public works departments geared up for whatever damage Tropical Storm Irma might bring to Tallapoosa County. Despite fears that the storm See STORM • Page A8
Ivey to seek full term as governor By MITCH SNEED Editor
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A local man received non-life-threatening injuries when the truck he was driving struck a tree that fell in front of him as he drove along Highway 22 between Daviston and New Site Monday. The man was alert and talking with first-responders and on the phone with his family at the scene.
In a move that was expected by most political observers, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced Thursday that she would seek to retain Ivey the seat in 2018, after being elevated to post on April 10, 2017 after Robert Bentley resigned amid a growing scandal. In a letter to supporters, Ivey cited the progress made over the last four months. “Four months ago after much turmoil in our state, I was sworn in as the 54th See IVEY • Page A3
Dadeville Kiwanis welcomes Wetumpka Impact Crater Commission been traveling at would have started fires across the county. The impact would have caused earthquakes Marilee Tankersley with the measuring 8.5 to 9.0 on the Richter Wetumpka Impact Crater Commission scale and a massive tsunami would have was the special guest at Thursday’s come ashore.” meeting of the Dadeville Kiwanis Over the next 85 million years, the Club, giving a special presentation on crater remained underwater for around the 85 million year old site just east of 20 million years, but dried out as the Wetumpka. prehistoric seas began to recede. At Impacting Alabama with a force one point, the path of the nearby Coosa 175,000 times more powerful than the River flowed right through part of the Hiroshima bomb, the meteor left a crater crater. approximately five miles wide at the When scientists first began looking at base of the rim. the crater site, it was believed the ridges During her talk, Tankersley described making up the rim were actually part of what it might have been like when the the Appalachian Mountains, while State extraterrestrial rock made contact with Geologist Eugene Allen Smith described the Earth. the area as being “structurally disturbed” “At this time, Tallapoosa County in 1891. Researchers first began to would have been the beach. Wetumpka theorize it was a crater in the 1970s, was under a shallow sea and Eclectic and confirmation of this would come might have been on some barrier following additional research carried Cliff Williams / The Record islands,” she said. “The meteor hit out by Auburn University professor Dr. Marilee Tankersley with the Wetumpka Impact Crater Commission talks to the Dadeville Kiwanis in the ocean. As it came through the See KIWANIS • Page A9 Club about the 85 million year old meteor crater in Elmore County. atmosphere, the speed it would have By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
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