Students in Elmore County Schools will receive free breakfast and lunch again this school year under the Community Eligibility Provision under the USDA.
Elmore County Schools saw a number of retirements after the last school year. It meant a lot of work for the school system to find and hire new teachers to fill many openings across the system, especially in elementary schools.
The National Weather Service in Birmingham has placed Elmore County under an extreme heat warning for Monday. Elmore County EMA has identified the following locations will be open as “Cooling Stations” on Monday during the times listed below. Citizens are asked to note that cooling stations …
Hard working, loyal, compassionate, patient. They are words used by Elmore County Schools transportation director Ray Mullino used to describe bus driver Alexandra Fermin.
Just a few years ago, municipalities in Elmore County were paying different rates to house prisoners serving time from municipal court convictions. Last year the Elmore County Commission and the Elmore County Sheriff’s Office set it at $25 per prisoner per day for municipal inmates while it …
The Elmore County Republican Party has selected Deatsville resident Jonathan Ross Terrell as its candidate for coroner on the November General Election ballot.
Dallas Hammond has been leading the Elmore County High School Maroon Machine Marching Band for three years. It’s a program she was a part of as a high school student and returned two summers ago to lead as director of bands.
Middle schoolers in Elmore County Public Schools have access to classes on the Bible thanks to state legislation from 2019. Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill allowing students to be taken from a school during the school day off site to study the Bi…
Ozark native David Matthews is hoping his experience in both of Donald Trump’s administrations and conservative values will get him the Republican nod for U.S. Congress District 2 in Alabama.
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT WEST CENTRAL LEE...NORTHEASTERN
MACON AND SOUTH CENTRAL TALLAPOOSA COUNTIES THROUGH 245 PM CDT...
At 201 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Notasulga, moving west at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Auburn, Tuskegee, Tallassee, Notasulga, Franklin, Liberty City, Lake
Tuskegee, Tallapoosa City, Tuskegee National Forest, Loachapoka, I 85
Rest Area, Uphapee Creek, Reeltown, and Moton Field Municipal
Airport.
This includes Interstate 85 between mile markers 32 and 51.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
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MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN;
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
Imagine getting more than 300 calls per year about someone dying. Imagine dealing with all the paperwork with more than 300 deaths in a year. Imagine being on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Imagine a pay of only $17,900.
The Elmore County Commission is finalizing road projects for the next year. Some will be funded by Rebuild Alabama and others will be funded by fees collected Enhance Elmore. But the Enhance Elmore funding will be used for only one year on ro…
The former Eclectic town clerk Shannon Duck is accused of taking $2,598.44 from the Town of Eclectic in 11 payments. According to court records, those payments stretched from 2024 to as recently as April of this year — nearly four months afte…
