6th Ave Truck Traffic Plan Echoes Past Debates
Decatur seeks to curb 6th Ave trucks by a right lane traffic resolution backed by City Council and awaiting State Highway Department approval. The measure aims to reduce speed and crashes on the busy thoroughfare, with prior attempts at banning parking long stymied by opposition and politics.
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Ben Windham
6Th Ave
State Highway Department
Decatur
Highway Department
Lth. Ave. SE
Church St
Guerry Pruett
Pruett
George C. Wallace
Montgomery
U.S. 31
8Th
Lth
Bill Levin
C.F. Camp
Council
11Th St. SE
Russell Bolding
Camp
Limestone County hosts first TARCOG child care center
The Child Development center in Athens College's McCain Hall marks a regional effort by TARCOG to provide full day care with medical, nutrition, and social services. Forty five Limestone County children begin a program focusing on individual Piagetian based learning, with extensive family training and community outreach.
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Limestone County
Faceri
Azalia Francis
McCain Hall
Athens College
Dora Ashford
Top of Alabama Regional Council of Governments
Appalachian Regional Commission
Alabama Department of Pensions and Security
Tarcog
North Alabama Higher Consortium For Child Development, Inc
Alabama A & M
University of Alabama, Huntsville
Mary
Ceclia Rowe
Huntsville
Francis
Alabama Crippled Children’s Association
Francis Said
Wilson Corder
Athens
Corder
Action page answers reader questions and BBB note
Local column ACTION explains rug recovery delays and customer rights and reports a full refund after five months in a Spencer Gifts dispute. It notes BBB involvement and cites other inquiry results about submitting cartoons and a home visitor program with Limestone County staff and Dr Francis praising the program and staff.
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Decatur
Better Business Bureau
Spencer Gifts
Atlantic City
N. J
G.T.O
Cigarette Tax On Agenda This Week
Alabama lawmakers return to debate a three cent per pack cigarette tax aimed partly at funding cancer research and health programs. The measure, proposed by Robin Hanan, would allocate two cents to cancer-related efforts and one cent to alcoholism and drug abuse programs, while broader issues such as the Equal Rights Amendment and bank loan rates are discussed.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Robin Hanan
Alabama League of Aging Citizens, Inc
Gene Hardin
Butler County
Lurleen B. Wallace Memorial Cancer Hospital
Hanan
U.S
Senate Rules Committee
Jere Beasley
Senate
Pierre Pelham
Mobile
Senate Business and Labor Committee
Richard Shelby
Tuscaloosa
Shelby
House
Sage Lyons
Beasley
Lyons
Bill Baxley
Alabama Secretary of the Year honors Mrs. Lee Smith
Mrs. Lee Smith was named Secretary of the Year at the National Secretaries Association convention held at Decatur Inn. Left to right are Dorothy Woodall, division SOTY contest chair, and Effie Meekes, CPS, Alabama division president, congratulating her.
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State National Secretaries Association
Decatur Inn
Alabama
Lee Smith
National Secretaries Association
Dorothy Woodall
Effie Meekes
CPS
Emergency numbers for Morgan Limestone Athens and more
A weathered listing provides multiple emergency contact numbers for Morgan County and Limestone County including Hartselle and Athens. It directs calling 911 for all emergencies and suggests Crisis Call Center numbers for personal crises and possible poisoning. It ends with a note that the Decatur Daily departments cover Athens and operate nights and holidays.
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By Libby Jarvinen
THE
Decatur Daily
Walter C. Givhan
Dallas County
Selma
Alabama Historical Commission
Givhan
William H. Bernes
John T. Morgan
Baxley
Bernes
Commission
Morgan
U.S. Senate
Warner Floyd
Historical Commission
Floyd
Pauline Punch
Tuskegee
Shirley P. Mull
Betty Qualls
Margaret McPherson
Virginia Keenum
Muscle Shoals
Berry
Richard Levine
Inez Fowler
Levine
Marilyn McEachern
Forrestdale
Birmingham
Shirley Farrington
John
NSA
Highway Patrol
911
Morgan County
Hartselle
Lawrence County
Cullman
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