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AUGUST 2024 A special supplement to The Wetumpka Herald & The Tallassee Tribune

Dedicated to the Growth and Prosperity of the Greater Tallassee Area

Wednesday, August 21, 2024 | Vol. 126, No. 34 | tallasseetribune.com | $1.00

Council approves tax increase By MELODY RATHEL Multimedia Reporter

CLIFF WILLIAMS | TPI

The Tallassee Police Department maintains a few kennels with runs for its animal control officer to use.

The council came to a decision about the impending increase to business license tax prices. At the council’s meeting last Tuesday, the council voted to amend ordinance 2007-426. Ward 1 councilman Jeremy Taunton said the amendment to the ordinance passed, 5-3. Taunton, Ward 2

councilwoman Linda Mosher and Ward 7 councilman Fred Hughey voted against the amendment. Taunton said he asked the question in the form of a motion to change Schedule B Retail from the proposed amount of 1/20 of 1% to 1/40 of 1%, which would make business pay half of what was going to be proposed. He said Mayor Sarah Hill said his proposal was not possible

because the council was making an amendment to an already amended ordinance. Section 1 of the amended ordinance states, “The City of Tallassee hereby amends Section 3 Issue Fee of Ordinance #2007-426. For each license issued, there shall be an issue fee of $14 as allowed by Alabama law and said issue fee See COUNCIL, Page A6

Animal control and policing go hand in hand small kennel. It’s used to help reunite pets found in the city limits to their ownThe Tallassee Police ers, and the department is Department utilizes a small highly successful at it. part of the city shop to keep “About 90% of the time those inside from escaping. See ANIMAL, Page A6 But it’s not a jail, it’s a By CLIFF WILLIAMS News Editor

Two schools, two bands, one director Glasscock leads two bands until retirement next year By CLIFF WILLIAMS News Editor Double your moment of fun. Double your delight. Tallassee High School band director Dr. Roby Glasscock is having a bit of a twin moment. Except

he is not a twin. But Glasscock now teaches at both Faulkner University and Tallassee High School. For 20 years Glasscock has led the band in Tallassee and he is also See GLASSCOCK, Page A6

MT. VERNON THEATER TO

OPEN AGAIN By CLIFF WILLIAMS News Editor

ntertainment options are growing in Tallassee as there are plans to reopen the Mt. Vernon Theater. Bill Patterson and the father-son team of Joey and Barry Wigington have partnered to bring an entertain-

ment and gathering option to Tallassee. “We are doing it for the community,” Patterson said. “We want the community to benefit from it.” The theater first opened in 1935 and closed for 50 years in 1968. It reopened briefly about six years ago but hasn’t been a mainstay in

town for decades. As a child and young adult, Patterson lived across the river in East Tallassee in the “Superintendent’s House.” He mainly attended the theater on what is now Central Boulevard but did trek across the Tallapoosa

See THEATER, Page A5

CLIFF WILLIAMS | TPI

Tallassee High School band director Dr. Roby Glasscock stands atop a new viewing platform at the Tallassee High School band field. He is retiring at the end of the school year and headed to Faulkner University.

CLIFF WILLIAMS | TPI

The Mt.Vernon Theater has been purchased by Bill Patterson and Joey and Barry Wigington.

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