No meteor for New Years in Wetumpka Publix coming to Wetumpka

By CLIFF WILLIAMS News Editor

The country’s largest employee-owned company, Publix, will have a store in Wetumpka soon.

Montgomery developer The Trotman Company who has worked with Publix in several of its developments across the Southeast.

has been in the planning stages for the last two and half years and that officials with the City of Wetumpka have been great to work with bringing Publix to town.

By CLIFF WILLIAMS News Editor

It’s a tradition started by Wetumpka’s Jack DeVenney more than three decades ago — a New Year’s celebration.

It was DeVenney who also started the meteor drop in Wetumpka in the early 2000s but the meteor drop will not happen this year but the celebration lives on.