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LOCAL NEWS New Site to celebrate 50 years as a town The Town of New Site will hold a special celebration Sunday to celebrate 50 years of being incorporated as a town. The reception will be held 2 to 3 p.m. in the community room at Town Hall in New Site. New Site is using the birthday celebration to kickoff its shop local campaign.
Career Tech Center receives accreditation The Edward Bell Career Technical Center has been designated as an Accredited NCCER Facility for Welding. The designation demonstrates that the program meets and exceeds industry standards. With this accreditation students who complete this program may be eligible to receive NCCER Certifications, CCRS Readiness Indicators in the program and participate in the college Dual Enrollment program with CACC. Joe Abercrombie is the instructor and Gerry Moses is the director at the center.
Reeltown to receive recognition banner Reeltown School was named as one of the Top High Schools in America by Newsweek. The school will be presented with their banner recognizing this honor next Thursday during pre-game festivities at Reeltown High School Stadium before they play Dadeville High School with at 7 p.m.
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Jobless numbers remain solid By Corey Arwood Outlook Staff Writer
THE FORECAST FROM ABC 33/40’s JAMES SPANN: Not much change; there will be sufficient moisture for “scattered, mostly afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms” both days, although they should be fewer in number Sunday. There will be some very nice intervals of sun along the way, with a high in the upper 80s today and low 90s Sunday. NEXT WEEK: A front passes through Monday with some risk of a passing shower or storm, then we get into dry continental air Tuesday through Thursday with lower humidity and cooler nights.
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Unemployment rose slightly in both Alabama and Tallapoosa County, according to numbers released today. The governor’s office released a statement Friday morning about the 6.2 percent unemployment rate. Gov. Robert Bentley maintained an optimistic tone and said that employment was at its highest point since 2008
during the same period. Alabama Department of Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald Washington attributed the rise in unemployment to seasonal factors, such as education employees being out of work during the summer months. Tallapoosa County’s unemployment rate saw a slight increase from 6.7 percent to 6.8. Don McClellan, execu-
tive director of Lake Martin Area Economic Development Alliance, said that, with summer coming to an end, seasonal unemployment might contribute as well to the rise for the county. Overall though, unemployment in Tallapoosa County has fallen nearly 2 percent from last July’s rate of 8.6. McClellan said that rates are much better than they have been in the recent past, in part
County schools fill three positions
Grand Jury returns 460 indictments
Burglary suspects among those arrested as a result of charges
By David Granger Outlook Staff Writer
The Tallapoosa County Board of Education Friday hired Karen McMath as the new assistant principal at Horseshoe Bend School at a special called meeting at the Tallapoosa County Schools central office in Dadeville. The board voted unanimously to hire McMath, currently assistant principal at Woodland School, after hearing Superintendent Joe Windle’s recommendation. Her employment at Horseshoe Bend is effective Aug. 31. “I think Mr. Aulner made a very wise choice with his recommendation of Ms. McMath,” said Windle. “(Woodland) is also a K-12 school with an enrollment of about 800 students, very similar to See HIRES, Page 5
due to more employers and more expansion. He also said steady growth is preferred to drastic changes in employment and he contributed the county’s gains to companies that have recently moved to the area as well as those that are expanding their operations, such Korens, C & J Tech and SL Alabama. “As long as we’re adding and not decreasing that’s good news,” McClellan said.
By Mitch Sneed Cliff Williams / The Outlook
Students play ‘Down at the River’ while waiting to go to a classroom at Radney Elementary School for homework. Below, Amariya Wyckoff works on multiplication tables for homework at After the Bell.
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Program continues with local funding By Cliff Williams Outlook Staff Writer
After the Bell, the successful after school program at Radney Elementary School, has expanded this year and is offering services at Jim Pearson Elementary School. “We opened up a second site at Jim Pearson this year,” After the Bell program Coordinator Julie See BELL, Page 5
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A recently completed session of the Tallapoosa County Grand Jury for the western district ended with the panel returning 460 indictments from the cases presented. Among the indictments were two men arrested in January as part of a burglary attempt at a local church. Oma McCormick of Lightsy Road in Jacksons Gap was indicted on charges of theft of property first, burglary third, possession of burglary tools and attempt to elude. Jeffery Tucker of Highway 63 North in Alexander City was indicted on charges of theft of property first and attempt to elude. Police say that at about 10:30 p.m. on Jan. 23, a church employee at Alexander City United Methodist Church at 1020 North 11th Avenue reported that men were inside the church attempting to steal some equipment from inside the building. Police responded quickly and took both McCormick and Tucker into custody a short time later. One of the suspects was arrested at the scene and the other was taken into custody after a brief See CHARGES, Page 5
Lake Martin Area United Way campaign kickoffs Tuesday By David Granger Outlook Staff Writer
The Lake Martin Area United Way wants everyone in the Alexander City and Lake Martin communities to become superheroes. To learn how, they invite everyone to attend their 2015 Campaign Kickoff, set for 6 p.m. Tuesday night at the Betty Carol Graham Technology Center on the Central Alabama Community College campus. “We just want everyone to come out, spend some time at the display tables of the agencies that we help fund, hear what we have planned for this year and have a good time,” said Sharon Fuller, executive director of the Lake Martin Area United Way. Fuller said that, in addition to disSpecial / The Outlook play tables that allow the people in The promotional poster for this year’s United Way fundraising campaign is depicts three local “Super the community to learn what services Heroes” in Lacey Howell, Randy Haynes and Mabry Cook. The piece was done by Jim Denney and Kristy See UNITED WAY, Page 10 Steele and will be featured at events including Tuesday’s campaign kickoff.
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