BY Addie Grace Phillips, Correspondent
The Reform Council meeting held on Tuesday, April 2 began with Mayor Bennie Harton addressing the new quote for 27 new field lights at the city park's baseball fields.
Left to right are: Congressman Robert Aderholt, Joeita Simon (mother), Major Jodie Minor, Taryn Minor (daughter), Trey Minor (son), Jasmine Walker (daughter), Sherry Anderson (aunt) and Congresswoman Terri Sewell.
Captain Jodie W. Minor Jr. of Carrollton was recently promoted to the rank of major in the U.S. Army.
Minor graduated from Athens State University and held several business management jobs before enlisting in the United States Army as an Intelligence Analyst in 2004. In 2008, CPT Minor commissioned as an Adjutant General’s (AG) Corps (Human Resources) Officer through the Army’s Officer Candidate School (OCS) Program.
Jodie is currently assigned as a Congressional Budget Liaison to the House of Representatives within ASA-FM&C’s Congressional Budget Liaison Office.
By BRIAN HAMILTON, Editor
Aliceville City Council's meeting on March 27 was very brief, as the first item under unfinished business was Mayor Marva Gipson discussing that at the March 13th meeting, Councilman Terrence Windham discussed the council meeting in a separate board meeting to discuss some of the city's matters. Gipson mentioned that the council would hold the board meeting on March 28.
Marva Gipson
By BRIAN HAMILTON, Editor
Mayor Marva Gipson is a native of Aliceville and a graduate R.J. Kirksey High School. Gipson then attended Tuskegee Institute University and Miles College and began her career at the Pickens County Board of Education as a Teacher’s Aide and later as School Secretary. She was the third African American to be employed at Westinghouse Electricity Corporation, where she served as a shipping clerk/receptionist in Reform, Ala.
Local children assist in a ‘Clean-up Day at the Park’ in late February.
By BRIAN HAMILTON, Editor
The Aliceville Dixie Youth league threw out the first pitch of the 2019 season this week with some much needed improvements to the Aliceville City Park fields.
Rob Dahlberg, President of the newly appointed Aliceville Park and Recreation Board, has been instrumental in the new park renovations and held a clean-up day in late February, where both adults and children worked together to help clean up trash and get the field ready for the upcoming baseball season.
Pickens County Career Center
By BRIAN HAMILTON, Editor
The Pickens County Board of Education meeting on Wednesday, March 20th began with Superintendent Jamie Chapman informing the board that the Board of Education meeting on Monday, April 15th would be moved to the Pickens County College and Career Center, rather than at the central office. Chapman stated that the meeting would remain at its scheduled time of 6 p.m. and all that would change is the location.
By BRIAN HAMILTON, Editor
To ensure a continuing supply of telephone numbers, the new 659 area code will be added to the area served by the 205 area code, which is known as an area code overlay.
An overlay is the addition of another area code to the same geographic region as an existing area code, however, it does not require customers to change their existing area code.
BY DOUG SANDERS JR., Correspondent
The Pickens County Commission recently adopted a new logging notice system that went into effect this week which will set up guidelines for timber owners and loggers.
The Commission held an extremely brief meeting on March 26, lasting a total of six minutes. First, the Commission made a motion to adopt the ordinance, to take effect April 1, and it was unanimously approved. Then, they voted unanimously to appoint County Engineer Clint Terry to be the license inspector responsible for enforcing the ordinance.
By BRIAN HAMILTON, Editor
The Reform Council meeting on Tuesday, March 19 began with Mayor Bennie Harton discussing the quotes for the light repairs at the city park. Harton said the park director took a careful count of the park’s lights to determine exactly how many were needing replaced. Mills Electric had given the city a quote for approximately 40 lights being out, when the count was actually lower.
