Thirsty Third Thursday Art Holtville High School basketball coach arrested

By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer

By Cliff Williams Staff Writer

Marcia Weber is reintroducing her art gallery to residents of Elmore County.

A virtual teacher at Elmore County School’s Edge program has been arrested and charged with school employee distributing obscene material to a student.

Weber and her gallery Marcia Weber Art Objects have customers around the world but many locals are not as familiar with the gallery in the heart of downtown Wetump- ka.

Elmore County Sheriff Bill Franklin said Emmanuel Andre Wilson II, 32, of Montgomery turned himself into authorities Tuesday afternoon.

“We want to let everyone know we are still here and have art available,” Weber said. “Many of our clients come in by appointment and we are here many days working. We are wanting to let everyone in the area know we are open for them too.”

Weber created Thirsty Thursday where on the third Thursday of

Wilson was the head basketball coach at Holtville High School and was placed on administrative leave Jan. 13 according to Elmore County Schools superintendent Richard Dennis.

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“We had a report,” Dennis said. “We had a preliminary

September, October and November she opens the doors to the downtown gallery to not only meet her but many of the self taught artists whose art adorns the gallery including Tallassee’s Ray Bellew. Bellew was on hand Thursday at the first of the Thirsty Thursdays chatting with Wetump-

Franklin investigation and handed it off to the appropriate authorities. He was also placed on administrative leave at that time.”

Dennis said school officials follow the same procedure when administrators receive a report of allegations against school staff and employees.

“Once we hand it over, we know very little about what is going on,” Dennis said. “We cooperate with authorities if necessary.”

“You could see a conversa tion between the two,” Frank lin said. “Mr. Wilson is going to contend someone had the security code to his phone and he was not responsible. There is other information we can’t disclose now but I don’t think it’s beneficial to Mr. Wilson.”