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Commission approves bids 4 Elmore County students for quality of life projects involved in three threats to “Law enforcement visited a 12-year-old from Millbrook Middle School,” Dennis said. “I don’t know if it is related to the situation in Montgomery or not.”
By CLIFF WILLIAMS News Editor
Turf fields are coming in Holtville, Eclectic and Tallassee after the Elmore County Commission approved nearly
$10 million in bids at its Monday meeting. The awarded bids are approximately $1.5 million under the budgeted amount. It will allow projects already identified in the communities to begin.
“In Holtville that is work on a batting cage and pavilion,” Elmore County chief operations officer Richie Beyer said. “In Tallassee, the $309,000
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Elmore schools and buses By CLIFF WILLIAMS News Editor Law enforcement and Elmore County Schools are investigating multiple threats from the last two days. Schools of two different Elmore County communities received threats Sunday evening. On Tuesday morning a student on a school bus in Millbrook called 911 to report a gun on the bus. None of the threats had any real substance, but it forced law enforcement and school administrators to treat them
as real. Three students have been identified as being a part of the social media threats — two in the Coosada and Millbrook area and one in the Eclectic area. “We sat down with a commenter on the post in the Millbrook community (Sunday) night,” Elmore County Schools superintendent Richard Dennis said. Millbrook police chief P.K. Johnson said his department, in particular school resource See THREATS, Page A6
Hammocks to semi-retire and sell Urban Tails building
NEW YEAR, NEW TEACHER, NEW
CHOREOGRAPHER By CLIFF WILLIAMS News Editor
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allassee High School’s Voltage show choir is almost ready for competition season beginning in January. The co-ed choir took part in a mini-camp over the Labor Day holiday just after the start
of the school year. It was a chance to build chemistry with other members and get in the choreography for most of the show. This starts junior Nubia Espinoza third school year in Tallassee’s show choirs — third in the Divas and second in Voltage. It was her first intensive camp for Voltage. “The last time Voltage did an
intense camp was before we got into the new building,” Espinoza said. New choral teacher Becca Jones is new to the teaching side of things and brought a face familiar to her to help with the three-day camp in the choir’s practice space at the
Kim’s family is mostly in Tuscaloosa. John’s parents are in Myrtle Beach, Doggie daycare and South Carolina and his son is in Chicago. Boarding and boarding in downtown Tallassee is almost over. doggie daycare will come to John and Kim Hammock a hiatus as the Hammocks have sold the building home move the grooming business to their business Urban Tails. to a barn on their more than “We are retiring for our four acres in the Tallassee family, that’s really what it city limits. The husband is,” Kim said. “We work 365 and wife team understand days a year. We have worked the move comes with some all the major holidays.” See HAMMOCKS, Page A6 By CLIFF WILLIAMS News Editor
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Choreographer Mike Weaver, center front, poses with Tallassee High School’s Voltage show choir. Weaver led an intensive camp installing the majority of the choir’s winter show.
Urban Tails owners John and Kim Hammock have sold their Barnett Boulevard building in downtown Tallassee. They are semi-retiring and moving the grooming portion of the business to their home.
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