Old? New? It Depends/Paroles

Current Florence Senior Center

Florence will be getting a new senior center in the near future. A spokesman for the group using the current facility has asked for a building that will last 40 or 50 years. City officials have indicated the new center will be designed for add-ons when needed to extend the usefulness of the structure, but 40 years is a relatively short life span. No one can say built-in obsolescence is dead in the U.S.

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Waterloo is getting something new--it's called a Village Post Office. It will be located in a store, bank, or similar facility and provide basic mailing services. Hmmmm, isn't that just a fancy name for a postal sub-station. We can recall one in the Elting branch of SunTrust. Apparently if you can't come up with a new idea, at least give an old idea a new name.

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Tuscumbia Mayor Bill Shoemaker wants Lauderdale cities to support the Alabama Music Hall of Fame. While we hope everyone in the area does support the AMHOF, somehow Shoemaker's proposal seems just a little ludicrous considering the recent Colbert County events surrounding RegionalCare's new hospital.

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D.K. attended the parole hearings of both Matthew Fox and  Jamie Mackey. Neither man was granted an early release. Fox will serve the remainder of his sentence, and Mackey will next appear before the board in five years.



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Another Term for Bill Shoemaker

A word from Tuscumbia Mayor Bill Shoemaker:

Run off is less than a month away!! October 9 is the big day! Around town, signs are being taken up and disappearing.... Which is not a good thing. Also, people have been saying "Oh Bill has nothing to worry 'bout"... If you hear people saying that, please tell them to go vote anyways.... The more votes the better! Thanks!

Mayor Shoemaker has the experience Tuscumbia needs. While we hope Fire Chief David Cole will continue to participate in city politics, we wholeheartedly endorse Mayor Shoemaker for another term.

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For those who can't get enough mug shots, The Quad-Cities Daily has added Marshall County to their gallery. There's also not a better source for Sheffield News than QCD.

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Pen N Sword has an informative article on accused child molester Freddie Hovater of Franklin County. PNS covers Lauderdale, Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence, and Limestone Counties, plus more. 

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