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Washington St. will have new layout Washington Street will have a center turn lane when paving is complete and markings have already been in place to get motorists used to the design. Some haven’t quite caught on.
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Paving on Washington Street in Alexander City is in full swing, but motorists may notice something a little different. Unlike the pre-paving layout which had four lanes of traffic and few turn lanes, the road will feature a center “double left” turn lane and right turn acceleratedecelerate lane at intersections when complete. Alexander City City Engineer and Public Works Director Gerard Brewer said
Alex City man faces rape charge
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Moore, Strange head to runoff Runoff Sept. 26 as Democrats pick Jones as US Senate nominee
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An Alexander City man is facing multiple charges after he allegedly entered a woman’s apartment and used a weapon to force himself on Hutchinson her. Laterrance Trevonchez Hutchinson, 24, was arrested Sunday after a relative of the victim notified police that the woman was being held
the new layout is part of federal standards. In other places where similar changes were made the switch has helped reduce accidents. “It’s a similar thing to what was done on Cherokee in front of CACC a number of years ago,” Brewer said. “We saw a lot of accidents as people stopped to turn into the college or turning out of Clubview Drive. The turn lane has almost eliminated all of those rear-enders that at one time were very common there. We feel like that will be the same on Washington Street as
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Alexander City Police Department and Alexander City Fire Department personnel talk to the driver of a Pontiac that crashed into a house on Scott Road Tuesday. The two residents were not injured in the incident.
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Residents escape injury when car plows into Scott Road home By MITCH SNEED Editor
A local man and woman miraculously escaped injury Tuesday when a car crashed through the front wall of their Scott Road
NO ISSUES: By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer
Confederate monuments are in the news lately. Some have toppled in North Carolina and Virginia. Alexander City has one in Memorial Park at the Sportplex and has not been a large issue. “It has been part of our Memorial Day service for years,” former Alexander City Mayor Barbara Young said. “We put a wreath on it just like the other monuments.” Young said the service has nothing to do with the reasons why the wars were fought. “People have their minds on the veterans who fought,” Young said. “It has to do with people who fought in any war.”
home. Just after 3 p.m., a maroon Pontiac G6 appeared to have failed to come to a stop at a stop sign where Sanders Road comes to a See CRASH • Page A3
Despite national issues, local Confederate monument not drawing adverse attention
The Confederate monument is nothing new to Alexander City. It was erected by the Sidney Lanier Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1923 and was moved to the Sportplex from an area around the airport. Alexander City resident Arlean Wyckoff sees both sides of the issue. “If you had loved ones that fought in it, it is OK to honor them with the wreath,” Wyckoff said. “Everybody has a right to honor, just not praise. It seems some who praise take it to another level that is just not right.” Wyckoff does not see any major issue with the monument and the way services have been held around the Cliff Williams / The Outlook one here in Alexander City. This Confederate monument pays tribute to sol“For years and years people have diers who fought in the Civil War and was erected See MONUMENT • Page A3 in 1923 by the Daughters of the Confederacy.
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There will be a runoff to decide the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate after a crowded field meant no candidate was able to garner a majority of the votes. For the Republicans, Roy Moore and Luther Strange will square off on Sept. 26, after Moore finished with about 41 percent of the vote statewide, followed closely by Strange, who finished with an estimated 31 percent. Mo Brooks was a distant third with about 18 percent. Vote totals were not final at press time Tuesday evening. On the Democratic side, Doug Jones found strong statewide support and garnered about 62 percent of the vote to win the nomination. Robert Kennedy Jr. was running at about 20 percent at press time. In Tallapoosa County, Moore was the top vote getter with 45 percent of the county’s GOP vote. Strange finished with 33 percent in Tallapoosa County. In Elmore County, Moore led with 48 percent, while Strange had an estimated 21 percent. On the Democratic side in Elmore County, Jones led with 58 percent over Kennedy’s 26 percent. The totals were not completely final at press time. In a race that featured a flood of negative ads on the GOP side, the turnout statewide was very light. Final turnout numbers were not complete, but was estimated at 13.7 percent by the office of Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill. The winners of the runoffs will meet in a special election on Dec. 12. The primary was necessary to fill the term of Jeff Sessions who was picked by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate to serve as United States Attorney General on Feb. 8. Former Alabama Governor Robert Bentley chose Strange, who had been serving as the state’s attorney general to succeed Sessions until a special election could be held.
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