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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2019
City OKs purchase Dadeville to get new mower for city streets By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer
The City of Dadeville will soon have a new tractor and side mower to help maintain city rights-of-way after action taken by the Dadeville City Council Tuesday night. “We bought a tractor and side cutter,” Dadeville Mayor Wayne Smith said. “We paid a little over half in cash and will finance the rest for three years. The payments will be made from funds from the gas tax.” The city will pay $40,000 cash and finance the remaining $34,000 with payments coming from the city’s portion of the gas tax to purchase the tractor and mower combination available through state bid. The old tractor mower combination was several decades old. Jerry McGukin with East Alabama Regional Planning came to Tuesday’s council meeting suggesting revising zoning ordinances. “He is suggesting we change downtown some,” Smith said. “The idea is to make downtown more multiuse to help promote growth.” Smith said no decisions were made and it will be an ongoing process. Smith said April will be a busy month in Dadeville. “We have something going on every weekend,” Smith said. “We have opening day for Dixie Youth April 6, Earth Day activities April 13, Easter weekend and the Alabama Bicentennial exhibit will be here the next weekend. We will have events surrounding that as well.” In other action, the Dadeville City Council also: • Learned there will be a citywide cleanup March 16 from 8 a.m. to noon. “We will meet at city hall and go from there,” Smith said. “We are encouraging schools, churches and anyone else to come out and help.” Smith said Waste Management would provide a dumpster. • Learned one nuisance property will be fully cleaned up in the next few days and the another will be put on the demolition list when the city See CITY • Page A3
comic relief Comic book store in Dadeville a unique way to spend time for interested locals By RON COLQUITT For The Record
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Kyle Sasser, top, shows a rack of comic books at the Mix It Up! store in Dadeville. Sasser said he is pleasantly surprised by the interest in reading and collecting comic books in the Dadeville area, where hunting, fishing and boating are more common pastimes. Some collectible comic books are worth thousands and even millions of dollars.
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nyone who comes across a stack of old comic books while spring cleaning better think twice before chunking them in a dumpster because they might be valuable. In the comic book section of Mix It Up! at Lake Martin in downtown Dadeville, there is an issue of X-Men where the mutant Gambit is introduced. Co-owner Deryck Hodge said it was printed in the 1990s and sold for $1 but the store is asking $125. In 2011, Action Comics No. 1 featuring See COMIC • Page A3
Oliver likes cut in grocery tax to offset gas tax hike
Ivey: 10 cents-per-gallon hike in gas tax to fund infrastructure improvements
New representative remains ‘noncommittal’ until he sees bill
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Gov. Kay Ivey proposed Wednesday raising the state’s gas tax by 10 cents a gallon over the next three years to fund massive infrastructure improvements, and Sen. Clyde Chambliss, who represents parts of Tallapoosa and Coosa counties, has been tasked with handling the bill in the Alabama Senate. The state gasoline tax, which is 18 cents per gallon and has not been increased since 1992, would increase by 6 cents this year, 2 cents in 2020 and 2 cents in 2021 under the plan, which also links the tax to a national index on highway construction costs See TAX • Page A5
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Alabama House Rep. Ed Oliver (R-Dadeville) is noncommittal about supporting an increase in the state gas tax but said he likes the idea of cutting the state grocery tax if the gas tax is raised.
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First-term Rep. Ed Oliver said Tuesday he likes the idea of cutting the grocery tax to offset any increase in Alabama’s gas tax meant to finance an overhaul of the state’s infrastructure. Oliver (R-Dadeville), who represents Chilton, Coosa and Tallapoosa counties in District 81 of the Alabama House of Representatives, said he wouldn’t pledge to support the first increase in the gas tax since 1992 until he sees specific details. The gas tax is expected to be a dominant theme when the legislature convenes on See OLIVER • Page A5