Restaurant considering Alton site
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ALTON Aldermen on Wednesday night took the first steps in possibly adding a new restaurant in Alton.
At Wednesday’s city council meeting, aldermen approved preliminary and final subdivision plats for Alton Circle Subdivision proposed by Sheppard, Morgan & Schwaab, Inc.
The area is the lot adjacent to the AT&T Store on 1725 Homer Adams Parkway in Alton. The plan is to expand the area slightly to make room for a drive-through restaurant. According to Mayor Brant Walker, the restaurant is from a nationally known brand not currently in Alton. Construction is set to begin “very soon,” Walker said.
In an impassioned speech Monday night, Jonesborough Alderman Adam Dickson â the townâs only African American alderman â addressed the East Tennessee State menâs basketball teamâs decision to kneel for the national anthem, calling on people to âlisten with the desire to at least acknowledge, if not understandââ each other.
âWhat I would hope that we all could gather is that, as beautiful and as wonderful as this flag is and what it represents, there is a sad truth: Not everybody has been free under that flag, and that is just a reality that I would hope we would at least attempt to comprehend,â Dickson said. âAnd so you have a group of young men (who), whether right or whether wrong, did what they did because of a young man like Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia â the same age as most of them. Trayvon Martin was just a few years younger than them. Tamir Rice was the same age-range as them.