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Stimulus: Tuscaloosa County’s rural roads will see long-awaited improvements

The County Commission on Wednesday approved funding agreements with the Alabama Department of Transportation for projects on Hagler-Coaling and Romulus roads.

The larger project — repaving a five-mile section of Hagler-Coaling Road — will cost an estimated $1.22 million, and will be paid for with federal stimulus money.

The other involves safety improvements to a 2.7-mile stretch of Romulus Road and will cost about $131,000. Most of that money will come from a federal High Risk Rural Rehabilitation Project grant. 

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Stimulus: program trains for jobs as home health aides & welders

PELL CITY – Students from the ICademy Prep program are the first to graduate since the ICademy program was born about a year ago.

“St. Clair County has a place to train workers now,” said Don Smith, executive director of the Economic Development Council. “That’s one of the great benefits of the ICademy. It houses state-of-the-art equipment for these programs.”

Officials say the programs these women and men completed were funded by a U.S. Department of Labor grant. The grant was made available with stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and because St. Clair County had an ICademy in place, some of that grant money was funneled to Jefferson State Community College in Pell City.

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