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 By  Staff Reports Published 
11:10 am Wednesday, March 30, 2005

City Employs Two Firms to Plan Water System

By Staff
Russellville Water and Sewer Board Tuesday night employed an engineer and fiscal agent to work out detailed plans for the city's proposed new water system.
The Board employed J.E. O'Toole Engineering Co., consulting engineers, Birmingham, to make the engineering survey and retained Stubbs, Smith and Lombardo, Inc. investment bankers, Birmingham, to handle plans for financing the proposed system.
Band Snares Three Firsts at All-State
The red carpet was out Thursday for the homecoming of the 10 members of the Marching Hundred who took part in the All-State Band concert March 23 at Tuscaloosa.
Four of Hollins B. Abram's boys and girls came home bearing medals. Three had achieved the honor of first chair, one got second.
Charlie Pritchard and Mary Ann Strickland won first and second chairs on alto clarinet in the Red Band. In the White Band, Carolyn Miller took first chair on alto clarinet and Judy Johnson first chair on E flat clarinet.

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