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TallasseeTribune.com

VOL. 125, NO. 44

Emergency declared over exposed gas and water lines lassee Elementary School. In the process Gardner and city employees discovered a probCity of Tallassee public lem with gas and water lines. works director James Gardner “It is exposed on both sides is seeking help to remedy a of the road,” Gardner said. “It problem of exposed pipes along is going to have to have some Friendship Road just south of pretty significant work done to Five Points. get both sides straightened back Gardner said the issue came out and hopefully not continue to light after a new slope to wash away. We have a pretty mower was used along ditches good bit of gas line exposed between Highway 14 and Talnow; it needs to be covered as By CLIFF WILLIAMS News Editor

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quickly as possible.” The lines were installed in the right of way along Friendship road and in the water runoff area that quickly moves to the bottom of the hill. “It feeds [Tallassee Elementary] School and it feeds the hospital,” Gardner said. “Both have dirt that has washed away.”

Waterlines are exposed along Friendship Road in Tallassee. An emergency was declared to allow the city to properly cover the pipes without going through the bid process.

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Businesses upset with progress, communication of downtown project

PRINCIPAL OF THE YEAR

look bright, the process to get to the end has been anywhere but delightful The downtown Tallassee for downtown businesses. streetscape project bringing Business owners said lack new sidewalks, lighting and of communication, lack pavement in the streets was of signage for detours and supposed to open the door more have gravely affected to better things. See UPSET, Page A6 While the future might By CLIFF WILLIAMS News Editor

GLASS EARNS DISTRICT-WIDE

PRINCIPAL HONOR By CLIFF WILLIAMS News Editor

eing head of the class is not unusual for Tallassee High School principal Drew Glass. Just two years ago he was selected as the state

assistant principal of the year by the Alabama Association of Secondary School Principals while at Wetumpka High School. Now he is AASSP District 4 principal of the year. “It is a big honor,” Glass said. “You are nominated

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by your district peers.” District 4 encompasses county and city schools in Elmore, Lee, Russell, Tallapoosa, Macon and Bullock counties. Glass said the nomination at the See PRINCIPAL, Page A6

Wetumpka High School principal Kyle Futral, left, presents Tallassee High School principal Drew Glass with his certificate for being named AASSP District 4 Principal of the Year.

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Business owners say there is little to no signage for detours or open business on Sistrunk and James streets as the downtown street project progresses. The work and its detours have made it almost impossible to get to their storefronts according to business owners.

Tiger soccer players bring the spooks that much more real. When Tallassee soccer coach Matt Tarpley was A haunted attraction presented with the chance can always be a little to host a haunted house creepy. fundraiser at the already But when that haunted haunted Guest House in attraction is staged a place Tallassee, he couldn’t get that’s already filled with ghost stories, it becomes See TIGER, Page A6 By LIZI ARBOGAST GWIN Managing Editor

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