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December 31, 2012 Page 15 - The BUZZ
parks and recreation program.
Late in the month,
Sweetwater accepted another
state grant, one for
$100,000 earmarked for
the city’s playgrounds.
The Sweetwater High
School soccer field officially
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held its “100-Year Celebration.”
The city also announced
its
groundbreaking ceremony
for the new planned Walmart
site on Highway 11.
October was also the
month for the annual
“BUZZ Fall Fest” at Kefauver
Park, a free event
that attracted thousands
of fun-seekers and the
Boys and Girls Club highly
acclaimed “Turtle Tumble.”
The month bowed
out with Halloween and
lavishly spooky activities
in Madisonville and
Sweetwater.
Tellico Plains Police
Chief Tonia Norwood resigned
her office as the
month ended and on the
first day of November the
city’s board appointed Jeb
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The presidential election
coincided with the
Madisonville city election,
resulting in local wins for
incumbent city recorder
Ted Cagle, incumbent
board members Glenn
Moser and Bill Spradlin,
and newcomer to the
board Gus Davis. The city
voted in liquor-by-thedrink
but turned its back
on a sales tax increase.
NOTICE
CITY OF MADISONVILLE
The City of Madisonville’s Mayor and Board of Aldermen
will hold a regular monthly Board Meeting
beginning at 6:00 p.m., on January 7, 2013. The
meeting will be in the Board Room of Madisonville
City Hall, 400 College Street, North, Madisonville,
Tennessee.
Copies of the Agenda are available at City Hall. The
public is invited to attend.
Ted Cagle
City Recorder
Patriotism was the
theme of the Veterans Day
ceremony, held two days
before the actual yearly
anniversary; National
Guard Sergeant and Monroe
County chief Deputy
Bryan Graves was the featured
speaker.
The city board of
Madisonville officially approved
Sunday beer sales
in the wake of passage of
the liquor referendum;
three pictures went up in
the courthouse, those of
former clerks Isaac
Stephens and Frank
White and former Clerk
and Master Judy Lee; and
the Madisonville Police
Department launched its
yearly “Toys for Tots”
campaign, gathering toys,
clothing, and funds for the
less fortunate children of
the city and county.
The body of Madisonville
teen Zachary Wilson
turned up in Kefauver
Lake; an autopsy was performed
to determine
cause of death, though no
details were released prior
to year’s end.
(See 2012 pg 16)