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$9.7 million grant to help fund new gas lines By CLIFF WILLIAMS News Editor Tallassee city leaders are breathing a little easier. Thanks to a $9.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration work can begin replacing the 17.75 miles of cast iron gas lines remaining in the Elmore County portion of
Tallassee. Friday, Linda Daugherty left Washington D.C. to award $22 million of $200 million in grant funding available in the PHMSA Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure Safety and Modernization Grants. In Tallassee, Daugherty surprised officials from Tallassee, Graysville, Lanett, Cordova and Fultondale. “It is not easy to navigate the
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federal grant process,” Daugherty said. “You took on the challenge and you were successful. It was designed to provide $200 million to communities like yours across the country, not all communities received a grant.” The $200 million in grants will replace more than 1,000 miles of pipe across the country. The City of Tallassee received
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Tallassee Mayor Sarah Hill, right, receives a check for the City of Tallassee after it was awarded a $9.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s Linda Daugherty.
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Tallassee High School Class of 1982 graduate Col. Mary Stonaker Burrus speaks as she is inducted into the Tallassee High School Alumni Association Hall of Pride.
By WILLIAM MARLOW Multimedia Reporter Law enforcement is continuing to investigate a hit-and-run vehicle crash, which claimed the life of a Tallassee man last week. According to Jeremy Burkett, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) public affairs coordinator, troopers with ALEA Highway Patrol Division are searching for the vehicle that left the scene of a crash See FATAL, Page A6
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HDD is planning to drill under the Tallapoosa River in Tallassee to allow its sister company HDD Broadband move its fiber network cabling from the old bridge. HDD hopes other utilities will also take advantage of the encasement it will install under the river.
HDD hopes to drill under river this summer By CLIFF WILLIAMS News Editor HDD Broadband wants to be ready for the future. Currently the small Tallassee based internet service provider has a fiber network in much of Tallassee and parts of western Elmore County. It also has fiber in East Tallassee thanks to a line stretched over the Tallapoosa River on the old bridge. But HDD’s Larry
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hree more Tallassee High School graduates have been welcomed into the Tallassee High School Alumni Association Hall of Pride. Ret. Col. Mary Stonaker Burrus of the Class of 1982 was one of three recent inductees. Burrus was part of a military family and moved to Tallasse in 1978; she graduated from Tallassee High School four years later. In
high school, Burrus was in the band, a manager for the volleyball team, on the yearbook staff, a member of the student council and a member of the National Honor Society. Burrus graduated from Alexander City Junior College, now Central Alabama Community College, and AUM earning a degree in mathematics and a master’s in mathematics education. Burrus was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air National Guard in 1990 and taught math in Birmingham and near Atlanta before a
lengthy full time career in the U.S. Air Force. Burrus, who now lives in Richmond, Virgina, retired from the Air Force in 2015 before starting her own business helping primarily military officers with leadership and performance. Burrus’ brother Daniel Stonaker spoke highly of his sister at the induction. “It is clear Mary is a very talented woman and has worked steadfastly to leverage her talents to help her students, her friends,
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