Last Day For Old City Hall By Lee Sentell
The old 1910 city hall and jail on Vine Street NW, once central to Decatur's civic life, will be razed in a month long disassembly by McCoy Bogle. Built when Decatur still leaned cotton, it later housed city offices for six decades before the Decatur Housing Authority acquired the building.
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Lee Sentell
Dead Man's Alley
Decatur Brow
Old City Hall
Vine St. NW
McCoy-Bogle
Decatur
Decatur Housing Authority
Railroad St
Albany
LaFayette St
Four Children In College And Hat Stew Time
A playful piece notes four children in college make life simple and contrasts budget planning for one child with the parental worry levels of two. The joke centers on hat stew as a humorous metaphor for household prep and school costs.
Hat stew and diplomas as a college life satire
A humorous essay mocks mass higher education and the burden on parents as children chase degrees through graduate school and loans. It rails at endless schooling and the paperwork of funding, imagining a family lottery where scholarships and grants fund the household while diplomas shield them in old age.
Couple Arrested On Abuse Charge In Morgan County
Norman Richard Gerren and Harriet Lucille Gerren, a Decatur couple, were indicted for child abuse by a Morgan County grand jury and jailed on $1,000 bond each. They face a custody hearing for eight year old Scott Gerren as the state and Department of Pensions and Security contest neglect allegations before Juvenile Court Judge C Bennet McRae.
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Decatur
Morgan County
Norman Richard Gerren
Harriet Lucille Gerren
Scott Allen Gerren
Gerren
Energy policy priorities through 2000 and beyond
The report outlines near term expansion of coal, nuclear, gas and oil with new sources and better recovery. Mid term focuses on synthetic fuels from coal and shale, geothermal and solar heating, and waste heat recovery. Long term looks to solar, fusion or breeder reactors and electric vehicles with ongoing energy conservation.
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United States
Man Shot in Street Near Grove and Vine
Sterling Jerome Warren of Moulton 3 is listed in good condition at Decatur General Hospital after being shot in the left leg with a shotgun at about 4:03 a.m. on Sunday. A man described as 5 feet 10 inches tall with short hair fired, Warren told police he might know him. No further action was taken. Two men faces two counts each of second degree burglary in separate Decatur cases.
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Decatur General Hospital
Sam Cowart
David Harris
Sterling Jerome Warren
Moulton
Cleave Johnson
Warren
Grove and
Vine Streets
Rotary Youth Awards Link School and Community Service
Decatur Rotarian Dennis Griffith presented Youth Service Awards to Decatur High School senior Johnny Jackson and Austin High Senior Jimmy Ray Smith for contributions to school and community. Police report details include weekend burglaries at Decatur Small Engine Repair Co. and Greyhound bus terminal, with two juveniles charged. Three traffic accidents left minor injuries and all victims released from hospitals.
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Decatur
Dennis Griffith
Decatur High School
Johnny Jackson
Austin High
Jimmy Ray Smith
Griffith
Decatur Small Engine Repair Co
Greyhound Bus
Wayne Kyker
Kyker
Jimmy Duke Riley
Sherwood Dr
Carridale St
Austinville Rd
Ewell St
C. B. Tutwiler
Mary Nell Preston
11Th St. SW
Robin Moore
7Th St. SE
Roy Allen Preston
Somerville Rd
Jackson St. SE
Gerald McCrary
Yard sale and auction to aid Lurleen B Wallace Center
The Lurleen B Wallace Developmental Center seeks donated items for its second annual yard sale and auction on August 22 and 23. Center director Dennis W Griffith notes last year’s sale raised nearly $3 000 and aids Wallace Center students with gifts bought by proceeds. Donated items are tax deductible and can be dropped at the maintenance department or arranged by calling 355 6810.
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Lurleen B. Wallace Developmental Center
Dennis W. Griffith
Wallace Center
Griffith
North Alabama
Tires and wheels stolen from Roberts Motors car
Det. Wayne Ryker dusts for prints on a car burglarized at Roberts Motors on U.S. 31 S. Ed Lott notes $500 worth of tires and mag wheels were taken from the vehicle. Roberts Motors offers a $100 reward for information leading to arrests and convictions.
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Wayne Ryker
Roberts Motors
Ed Lott
Calvin Roberts
Lott
Roberts Lot
U.S
S. A
Weather and river readings for morning report
The morning river reading is 21.05 with sea level at 555.35. Sunday highs reached 91 and a low of 71 with today’s forecast 93 and tonight 72. Expect mostly sunny today and Tuesday with fair warm nights and includes climate data for Sunday.
Weather Dims Showers Across North Alabama Tuesday
An Alabama forecast indicates a diminishing chance of showers by Tuesday as warm air shifts southward. The Tennessee Valley may see less rain, with the outlook through Friday showing mostly fair conditions and isolated thundershowers. Highs reach upper 80s to low 90s in the north and mid 90s in the south, with similar heat across the Gulf Coast and northwest Florida.
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North
Alabama
National Weather Service
Tennessee
Gulf Coast
Florida
The
Weather Service
Hartselle
Decatur
Three Athens teens aim to set endurance kata record
Allen Gant Ricky Pressnell and Eddie Smith, all 17, plan a 12 hour nonstop karate kata marathon at the Studio of Self Defense in Athens. They may be fed via tubes to avoid interruptions and seek to mark a new Guinness World Record for endurance kata.
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Sonny Turner
Athens
Allen Gant
Ricky Pressnell
Eddie Smith
Gant
Danny Thornton
Athens Bible School
Smith
Athens High School
Presswell
West Limestone
Juveniles Charged in Limestone County Burglary
Three Huntsville youths were charged by Limestone County authorities with four counts each of burglary after vending machines were burglarized in Athens. Sheriff M. W. Evans reported the arrests on Sunday night.
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Brookhaven
Kyker
Athens
Limestone
Huntsville
M. W
Buddy) Evans
Limestone County
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