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Rec board looks to upgrade facilities
By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer
The Tallassee Recreation Department planned to construct a new recreation center for many years. However, with a multimillion-dollar price tag, those plans were put on hold time and time again. Now members of the recreation
board are rethinking those plans. Rather than construct a new facility, the board would like to make improvements to existing facilities and that could happen sooner than later, thanks to an account created over a decade ago. “That year, they voted that any revenue that the rec department took in, whether it was registration fees or
membership to the rec center, those fees would go into this account. Over that year and probably the next, anything they generated went into this account,” city clerk Barbra Garnett said. The account was created in 2006 and since that time it has accrued interest and totals more than $100,000. Councilman Terrell Brown, who is
also a member of the recreation board, explained how the funds came to be. “The idea was that the rec board was going to use that money because we felt like we had the go-ahead to build the new recreation center,” Brown said. “Because of some other things that were happening we decided we weren’t going See REC • Page A2
Pride of Tallassee preps for season
Tyler Thomas, bottom left, will head to kindergarten with all the supplies he needs to start the school year off right thanks to the Tallassee Police Department, Community Outreach Program and others who helped facilitate this year’s Back to School Kickoff.
By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer
With school beginning this week and football season right around the corner, the Tallassee Pride Marching Band is gearing up for the 2018 season. The group of ninth-, 10th-, 11th- and 12th-grade students auditioned for a part in the band back in February and after six long months of waiting, See BAND • Page A3
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Southside Middle School utilizing ‘ClassDojo’ app
Community celebrates return of school with kickoff event
By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer
By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer
ClassDojo is a classroom communication app used to share reports between parents and teachers. With this classroom communications app, teachers are able to track student behavior and upload photos or videos to share with the student’s parent or See DOJO • Page A6
The lawn of the Tallassee City Hall was packed with children celebrating the last weekend before school begins. The Back to School Kickoff celebration was held Saturday and from 10 a.m. until noon,
children lined up for free back-to-school supplies, courtesy of the Tallassee Police Department. There were plenty of children’s activities for all ages including inflatables, a gravity wheel ride, SnoBiz and more. “We collected over See KICKOFF • Page A6
Library celebrates end of summer reading program
Summer reading program volunteer Autumn Acreman serves Jorden Smith a piece of pizza during Wednesday’s party to celebrate this year’s summer readers and their accomplishments.
Wednesday marked the end of the summer reading program at the Tallassee Public Library and despite dreary skies, several children and parents attended the party. Originally, the party was scheduled to be on the lawn of city hall where members of the Tallassee Fire Department were to bring the department’s tanker truck, filled with water, and spray the children as they played outside. However, because of the rain, kids ate pizza and made crafts inside the library where it was cool and dry. Margret Lumpkin, librarian at the Tallassee Library, was on hand to greet children and parents. Several outstanding readers participated in this year’s reading program. “We had 956 books turned See LIBRARY • Page A2
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