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Stubbs pleased overall with the session By CLIFF WILLIAMS News Editor Budgets, gambling and education were all on the table when the 2024 legislative session started in February in Montgomery. For the most part, Rep. Troy Stubbs is pleased with the results. The general fund budget
is $3.4 billion. The education trust fund budget is $9.35 billion. Both numbers are record setting with the general fund including monies to continue projects in Elmore County. “There was money allocated from the supplemental budget to continue construction of the prisons, primarily the prison being
constructed right now in Elmore County,” Stubbs said. “There are others that are planned. There is an 11.3% increase in mental health funding in the general fund budget. We are not where we need to be but it is important to know it is a priority in the legislature.” Education and state employees will get a 2%
raise as part of the budgets. Some families will now get more options related to the education of children. Last year Stubbs went to a conference in Dallas to learn about school choice programs across the country. He brought the information he learned back to
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Troy Stubbs gives members of the Elmore County Commission See STUBBS, Page A5 an update about matters in the Alabama Legistulure.
Learning life lessons with lemonade By CLIFF WILLIAMS News Editor A cool treat awaits shoppers on Jordan Avenue in Tallassee. If someone is lucky enough, they will get some homemade lemonade from Ezlyn and Leland Golden, who are 4 and 8, respectively. Along the way, the girls are learning a lesson about managing money for a business. The children see their parents Phillip and Kristin Golden work in their body shop Automotive Worx, which is just down the hill from the Jordan Avenue lemonade stand. The parents feel
the children have seen their work ethic. “They feel like they are putting in theirs by working up there,” Kristin Golden said. “It is so sweet to see them feel like they are doing something so big. Fifty cents, 25 cents makes them smile. I enjoy seeing them doing that.” Since May 22, Ezlyn and Leland have opened their homemade lemonade stand about a half dozen times. The work started behind the body shop. “They built it from pallets themselves,” Golden said. “They helped paint it, and See LESSONS, Page A5
TALLASSEE TEACHER, MUSICIAN, SOLDIER TAKES STAGE AT
GRAND OLE OPRY unique opportunity came along last month. Green followed the Army illy Green never thought creed, “I am an expert and he would be on the stage I am a professional. I stand of the Grand Ole Opry. He ready to deploy and engage.” hasn’t sung beyond Tallassee Green performed at the in more than 20 years but a Holy Grail of country music By CLIFF WILLIAMS News Editor
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with Craig Morgan after zero rehearsal. “I told my mom this could have turned out a whole lot worse,” Green said. Morgan is a country music See OPRY, Page A5 SUBMITTED | TPI
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Tallassee High School teacher and commander of the 313th U.S. Army Reserve Band CWIII Billy Green, right, performs with CWI Craig Morgan on stage at the Grand Ole Opry last month. Green has been tasked with helping manage Morgan’s recruiting role.
Leland, left, 8 and Ezlyn, 4, Golden built a homemade lemonade stand about two weeks ago. The brother and sister duo were likely inspired by their parents Phillip and Kristin Golden who own Automotive Worx just down the hill on Jordan Avenue in Tallassee.
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