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City runoff elections one week away By MITCH SNEED Editor
One week from today, voters in several local municipalities will be asked to go back to the poll to help determine who will lead their cities and towns for the next four years. In Alexander City, Dadeville and Goodwater runoff elections will be held from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4. Citizens only need to be a registered voter in those municipalities to vote. Having voted in the Aug. 23 election is not a requirement to vote in the runoff.
In Alexander City there are three races that will be decided in the runoffs next Tuesday. Voters in Alexander City will be asked to decide between challenger Jim Nabors and incumbent Charles Shaw in the mayoral race. In Alexander City City Council District 1, incumbent Bobby Tapley and challenger Steve Crowe will face off. Tapley was the top vote getter in the Aug. 23 election, while Crowe narrowly made the runoff over Beverly White. In District 2, Audrey “Buffy” Colvin and Jacob Meacham will meet in the runoff. Colvin was the leader on Aug. 23 in a three-candidate field. Meacham
finished ahead of incumbent Sherry Ellison-Simpson to qualify for the runoff. In Dadeville, there are four races still to be decided. For mayor, Frank Goodman and Wayne Smith are locked in a tight runoff. For Dadeville City Council District 2, Brownie Caldwell and Harold Gamble qualified for the Oct. 4 runoff. In District 3, voters will decide between Teneeshia Goodman-Johnson and Kevin Hall. Troy Davis and Roy Mathis both qualified for the runoff in District 4. In Camp Hill, voters will be asked to go back to See RUNOFFS • Page 3
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Council sets meeting today on uncounted ballots By MITCH SNEED Editor
By DAVID GRANGER Staff Writer
The Alexander City City Council is planning to hold a special called meeting today at 4:30 p.m. to address the uncounted absentee ballots from the Aug. 23 city election. About 40 uncounted ballots were discovered by city officials last Thursday. That revelation came after the vote totals had been canvassed and sent for certification. As of 5:51 p.m. Monday when it was learned that the meeting had been scheduled, City Clerk Harriett Scott said that she had still not received a call from the office of Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill, after reaching out Friday for guidance. It is unclear how the absentee ballots were omitted from the final count, but it apparently involved some of the ballot directions not being followed to the letter. Scott said Friday that she doesn’t think the ballots would have had an impact on the final results, but since they haven’t been counted, it’s hard to say for sure. While most of the races may not have been impacted, in District 1 the race for the second spot in the runoff was very close. In District 1, Bobby Tapley had 261 votes and Steve Crowe had 176 See COUNCIL • Page 3
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Leanne Kelly, above left, and Emily Ray play through “Unchained Melody” as they get ready for Friday’s homecoming performance. Below, Andie Lamberth plays the cymbal in the pit at Monday’s practice.
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BRHS to host marching festival for 18th year By MITCH SNEED Editor
Music will fill the air when 26 marching bands come to Alexander City to compete in the Lake Martin Invitational Marching Festival Saturday. Benjamin Russell High School’s marching band will again host the invitational, which will be at the Charles E. Bailey Sr. Sportplex. The first band will perform at 11 a.m. “This is our 18th year hosting the invitational and 26 bands from all over the state will be competing,” said BRHS band See MARCHING • Page 9
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The Adelia M. Russell Library and Mamie’s Place Children’s Library unveiled their first registered Little Free Library of Alexander City and Tallapoosa County Monday. Little Free Library is a non-profit organization that promotes literacy through a community-wide book exchange. The Little Free Library will be located outside of Carlisle’s in downtown Alexander City. Submitted / The Outlook “I think it’s the perfect loca- Jamie Foshee, left, Chelsea Lloyd and Brooke Bailey tion,” says Mamie’s Place employee pose for a photograph with a Little Free Library at Carlise See LIBRARY • Page 3 Drugs Monday.
The Benjamin Russell High School Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC) recently traveled to Pensacola, Florida to compete in the Escambia High School NJROTC annual Gator Games field meet. This was the 14th consecutive year that the BRHS Cadets have participated in the Gator Games against competitors from across NJROTC Area 8, high schools spanning Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and the Florida panhandle. Twenty-five BRHS Cadets joined more
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