August Delano Park Development Slated
Plans call for a 21700 project at Delano Park in Decatur to add playground equipment two picnic shelters 24 tables and a 50 by 80 foot play area with four basketball goals and volleyball markings. The project is part of a 120000 park upgrade funded half by a federal grant with in-kind city support.
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Delano Park
Jimmy Brown
Parks and Recreation Department
Decatur
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Brown
Delano
8Th Ave. S.E
Prospect Dr
No Opposition For Hartselle Council
HARTSELLE After one week of qualifying for city council positions no candidate has opposition in the Aug. 8 race. There are two candidates for mayor. Qualified for election to the council are Place One Bob Johnston Jr Place Two David Buckelew Place Three Bob Horton Place Four Jerry Putman Place Five W. A. King Buckelew Horton and Putman are incumbents. Councilmen Bruce Johnson and Joe Puckett will not seek reelection. Mayor John D. Long is opposed by Bill Gardner. The qualifying period ends July 5.
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Hartselle
Bob Johnston Jr
David Buckelew
Bob Horton
Jerry Putman
W. A
Bill) King
Buckelew
Horton
Putman
Bruce Johnson
Joe Puckett
John D. Long
Bill Gardner
Decatur High Burglary Leads to Multiple Arrests
An 18 year old Trinity 1 resident Allen Cecil Hawkins was arrested Tuesday on second degree burglary charges tied to a Decatur High School break in last weekend. Earlier Morgan County teens Gary Adams and Randel Terry faced two counts each of second degree burglary related to the Decatur High School and an Austin break in. A Decatur woman was charged with petit larceny for stealing two earrings two scarfs and a gown valued at 16.51 from W T Grant. Policemen investigated a report of a snake under a Sunset Dr NW mattress that turned out to be an extension card. About 10 gallons of gasoline and a green garbage can were stolen from 2011 Dogwood Ln. Margaret Elizabeth Stephenson joined the Samford University Phi Kappa Phi chapter.
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Trinity 1
Decatur High School
Allen Cecil Hawkins
Morgan County
Gary Donald Adams
3Rd Ave
Randel Gene Terry
Austin
Ernest Bowman
Decatur
W. T. Grant
Dr. NW
James Bradford
Dogwood Ln
Water lawns, says Town Creek mayor
Town Creek Mayor Frank Babacy said the rainfall increase has removed the need for water rationing after a drought gripped North Alabama. He had urged residents to turn off sprinklers at night to ease pump load. now he permits night use if needed but cautions against excess use.
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Town Creek
Frank Babacy
Babacy
North
Alabama
Jury Hikes Property Value in Bank Street Case
In a circuit court ruling, a jury awarded Melvin Sykes and family about 27 370 dollars for a Bank Street property, raising the earlier Decatur Housing Authority appraisal by roughly 9 000 dollars. The decision, appealed after probate court awards of 18 370 for the funeral home building, reflects location and lot value.
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Melvin Sykes
Bank St
Decatur Housing Authority
Sykes
Bank and
Wilson Streets
Circuit Court
Housing Authority
Professors Attack Waterway Plan In Court Challenge
In Aberdeen Mississippi two college science professors testified against the proposed Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway arguing it would harm ecosystems. They warned mixing waters could cause species extinctions and sediment traps from locks would disrupt habitats including the May Fly.
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Aberdeen, Miss
U.S. District Court
John Perch
University of Michigan
George Folkeres
Auburn University
Perch
Folkeres
Tennessee River
Gulf of Mexico
Lincoln Brower
Amherst College
Massachusetts
Tombigbee
Lawrence Waste Head Pick Seen
Probate Judge William Lee said a special county commission meeting will likely be called before July 1 to select a new director for the solid waste disposal system in Moulton Lawrence County. Mayor H A Alexander, who has held the post over four months, plans to resign as the program achieves financial stability.
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Moulton
Lawrence County
William Lee
H. A. Alexander
Alexander
Special Commission
Commission
Lee
Jury Deliberations Open in Muncaster Assault Case
A federal jury is to begin deliberations in Montgomery in the Esther Muncaster case charging three counts of assaulting federal officers during her husband’s January custody. Officer Lunsford testified she kicked him about 15 times and broke skin in five places.
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Montgomery
Ala
Esther Muncaster
James Lunsford
Explosion 72 conference impresses student delegates
Hudson, an 18 year old Calhoun liberal arts student, recalls the Explosion 72 week long conference sponsored by Campus Crusade For Christ. Delegates from across the nation and diverse faiths attended. He praised Dr. Graham and said the event included intensive training on sharing the Christian faith. He left open the possibility of ministry if called by the Lord. Phyllis June Driver, Decatur, will graduate from Judson College Sunday. In ALABASTER a gas line rupture sparked a motorist incident as three young bandits robbed the Indian Springs Branch of the First Bank of Alabaster, FBI says the attackers were in their late teens or early 20s, two with pistols.
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Hudson
Clarence Hudson
Calhoun
Austin
Campus
Crusade For Christ
Graham
Alabaster, Ala
Indian Springs
First Bank of
Alabaster
John W. O'Rourke
Birmingham
FBI
Explo 72 Worth Cost Draws Dallas Youth
Keith Hudson of 113 6th Ave SE joined 100000 young people in Dallas for Explosion 72. He attended with Danny Prater as an independent attendee and said the event was not church sponsored. Evangelist Billy Graham and other Christian leaders spoke nightly to the crowd.
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Keith Hudson
6Th Ave
Dallas
Hudson
Danny Prater
Shady Grove Lane
Billy Graham
Four Enter Athens Race for City Council
Four more candidates qualified Tuesday for the Athens city council election on August 8. George Alvis Carter and Johnny McAllister seek Place 3, Bennet E. Higgins seeks Place 4, and incumbent Eugene Thornton seeks Place 2. Places 1 and 2 offer four year terms while the other three are two year terms. In all, twenty candidates have qualified for city offices including six for mayor.
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Athens
George Alvis Carter
Johnny McAllister
Bennet E. Higgins
Eugene Thornton
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Decatur Parks and Recreation Department
Highway Patrol
Limestone
THE
Decatur Daily
Cronies
Cullman
Decatur High
Margaret Elizabeth Stephenson
Samford University
Phi Kappa Phi
Miss Stephenson
W. K. Stephenson
Lafayette St. NE
Wallace Rally
Sen
John Sparkman
George ©. Wallace Jr
Jere Z Mw
Tombigbee River
David H. Strandsbury
Ohio State University
U.S. Department of the Interior
Army Corps of Engineers
Richard Dale Caldwell
Texas A&m
Yellow Creek
Caldwell
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
Tennessee
Lawrence Waste
Crenshaw County
Thomas J. Dunnavant
Cotton
Thaggard
T. L. Thaggard Jr
James Pregna
Vanzie Beasley
Vernon “Red” Ligon
James B. Peek Jr
Partlow State School
Tuscaloosa
University of Alabama
John Yeattes
State Mental Health Board
Yeattes
Butler, Ala
Tony Estes
Parkview Baptist
Phyllis June Driver
Judson College
Marion
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