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Here’s the latest on COVID-19 in Tallapoosa, Coosa and Elmore counties, updated every week:
Positivity rate — 47.8 percent Seven-day caseload — 160 new cases (through Monday) Average daily caseload — 23 new cases per day Week-on-week change — 38.7 percent decrease
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The Creation Plantation playground, pictured here in November 2021, was demolished due to safety hazards.
Positivity rate — 19.2 percent Seven-day caseload — 546 new cases (through Monday) Average daily caseload — 78 new cases per day Week-on-week change — 42
Dadeville time capsule found, left for posterity to unseal By SIRI HEDREEN Multimedia Reporter The burial location of Dadeville’s lost time capsule has been identified within two days of the mystery being broached at a city council meeting Tuesday. Brent Payne and Wesley Griffin contributed to its discovery Thursday morning, according to a Facebook post by Vicki Noles Griffin. The contents are still safely sealed away. The time capsule, which longtime residents had recalled burying beneath the town’s “Creation Plantation” playground when it was built in 2000, came up in discussion at City Hall Tuesday. The wooden playground was recently demolished due to safety hazards, and as the city gets ready to replace it, councilwoman Brownie Caldwell said she didn’t want the construction crew accidentally disturbing the capsule before it’s “ready to be resurrected.” The problem was, not one of the eight or nine people Caldwell called could say where it was buried. As it turns out, the time capsule was not a false memory. But according to Wesley Griffin, who helped construct the playground in 2000, Payne deserves the credit for its unearthing. Griffin’s contribution was a distinct memory of it being a 4.5-foot PVC pipe, as well as its approximate location. As Payne discovered, his memory was correct. “Brent went out there and found it sticking up out of the ground,” Griffin said. “I really wish he’d get all the credit; I didn’t do anything.” Old editions of The Dadeville Record describe the construction of Creation Plantation as a city-wide event led by Dadeville resident Amy Banks, with
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Positivity rate — 39.1 percent Seven-day caseload — 1,614 new
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The simulation takes place in a trailer loaned by Alabama Fire College and parked in he room is dark and Dadeville Volunteer Fire flames are pouring out Department’s driveway of an old-fashioned Saturday. stove, then an air duct, as “Normally we have this trainee firefighters crawl trailer smoked out; you won’t toward it with a hose. see nothing,” assistant fire But with the release of chief Tracey Johnson said. a button, the flames retreat The fire, fueled by into the wall, like flicking propane, is controlled from a switch on a gas fireplace. an outside panel beside a By SIRI HEDREEN Multimedia Reporter
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cases (through Monday) Average daily caseload — 231 new cases per day Week-on-week change — 23.6 percent increase
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Positivity rate — 34.2 percent Hospitalizations — 2,685 as of Feb.
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Dadeville trains recruits with simulated blaze pair of windows, allowing Johnson to monitor recruits’ progress. “They go in and attack the fire; if they do it correctly, we can let go of the switch and the fire will go out,” he said. “Or, in case of an emergency, I can let go of the switch and the fire will go out.” See FIRE, Page A3
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A simulation trailer on loan from the Alabama Fire College sits outside the Dadeville Volunteer Fire Department.
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Central Alabama under flood watch By SIRI HEDREEN Multimedia Repor ter The National Weather Service (NWS) has put a portion of central Alabama, including Tallapoosa and Coosa counties, under flood
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Thursday night; Coosa County has a 75-100 percent chance. Two to four inches of rainfall is expected across the region. “Excessive runoff may See FLOOD, Page A3
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All but four counties in NWS Birmingham’s coverage area are on flood watch through Friday morning.
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