By Terry Schrimscher
SPRINGVILLE The city council of Springville met for the first meeting of July on Tuesday, July 6, after moving the regularly scheduled meeting from Monday, July 5, due to the Independence Day holiday.
In the work session prior to the meeting, City Attorney James Hill presented a proposal to rebid garbage collection services within the city. After a series of previous companies being purchased, trash removal services are currently contracted with Waste Management, Inc.
“We need, and they want, us to rebid the contract,” said Hill. “There are things that need to be revised.”
Hill gave examples of other cities including franchise fee provisions in waste management service contracts to maintain and repair roads damaged by garbage trucks.
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From the West Alabama Newsroom–
The Fourth of July is one of the holidays a lot of people in Selma like to spend taking advantage of one the area’s biggest attractions. And it has nothing to do with civil rights or the Civil War.
The state of Alabama has 6500 miles of waterways. And two of the state’s 14 major rivers run through the Selma and Dallas County.
The area is home to both the Alabama and Cahaba rivers. And when the heat is on a lot of people head for the waterways.
“Summer’s here in Selma. I’m always on the river. That’s like a fun little thing we have to do here,” said Jane Anne Stewart of Selma.
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Former U.S. Rep. Herbert Leon “Sonny” Callahan, who represented south Alabama in Congress for 18 years, died early Friday morning. He was 88 years old.
Gov. Kay Ivey’s office announced Callahan s death on Friday. Ivey’s chief of staff, Jo Bonner, was an aide to Callahan and succeeded him after he retired.
“Without question, Sonny’s service to Alabama and to America was unrivaled,” Ivey said in a statement. “He was one of South Alabama’s most beloved public servants, and his legacy of helping others stands out as just one of his many wonderful qualities.”
Callahan, a native of Mobile, served in the Navy and attended the University of Alabama before going to work in his family’s trucking and warehouse business, becoming president of the firm after his uncle’s death in 1964. He first won election to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1970 as a Democrat, serving two terms in that chamber before winning a term in the Alabama Senate in 1978. He left the