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Everyone seeking to be on a ballot for the Aug. 26 municipal elections had to qualify by 5 p.m. June 25. Alabama law says those seeking to qualify must have been a resident of the district they wish to run in by May 28. These are the names that will appear on the municipal ballots in Elmore County.

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Tallassee has plenty of stages for acting — there’s the new performing arts center at the high school, and the Mt. Vernon Performing Arts Center has been revived as well.

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The Tallassee High School Class of 2025 will not graduate on the new artificial turf in J.E. Hot O’Brien Field, Instead they will get their diplomas in the football stadium at the Wetumpka Sports Complex as the new field is not ready.

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Wendell D. Padgett Jr. is in rare company. Not only has the graduating high school senior for Life Preparatory Academy, an online school based in Tallassee, been dueled enrolled at Auburn University, he has also been selected as a Gates Scholarship recipient.

It’s been several years since Reeltown High School students have gone on a trip like this, but planning is in the works for an upcoming trip to the nation’s capital. 

Success and the Tallassee High School FFA program are synonymous. For the last several years teams of students have cruised through district competitions to state and some have even qualified for nationals.

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The Joe Sewell Memorial Award will award $19,000 in scholarships next month to outstanding high school senior athletes in Elmore County who have consistently represented the highest ideals of Christian leadership.