Clinton’s $9.9 million makeover nears finish
Chase Hunter of Adams Contracting works traffic control along Main Street in downtown Clinton on Monday morning as a crew from his company prepares to repave the street near the turnoff to Market Street. - G. Chambers Williams III
Although there’s still about six weeks’ worth of detail work to be finished, the majority of the $9.9 million Clinton downtown rehabilitation project will be completed this week with the repaving of Main Street in the historic district. “If all goes well and weather permits, the paving work on Main Street will be finished Thursday,” Clinton City Manager Roger Houck said Monday afternoon. Traffic was diverted off of Main on Monday as a crew from Adams Contracting worked on repaving the street between Cullom and Church streets. That work began in earnest last week. Also last week, wrought-iron handrails were installed along the steps on Market Street’s newly rebuilt sidewalks.
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Speedway, 2148 N. Charles G. Seivers Blvd. in Clinton, was penalized by the Clinton Beer Board on Monday, July 27, after an employee sold beer to an underage customer during a Clinton Police Department undercover operation in June. - Ben Pounds
Two gas station/convenience stores caught in a recent police sting were levied penalties by the Clinton Beer Board at its July meeting. The Beer Board, which consists of all members of the Clinton City Council, met Monday, July 27. Board member Matt Foster was absent. The two businesses were Speedway, 2148 N. Charles G. Seivers Blvd., and Rocky Top Market, 2412 N. Charles G. Seivers Blvd. The Clinton Police Department accused the businesses of selling beer to a minor during an undercover operation in June. Police said an 18-year-old assisted officers in determining whether the stores and other businesses were complying with state laws governing age-restricted sales. The 18-year-old presented identification accurately showing his age.
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First permit denied
The Clinton City Council’s newly created board charged with enforcing regulations on specialty vape and tobacco shops has met for the first time — and denied its first permit application. The board, composed of all members of the Clinton City Council, met Monday, July 27, and voted to deny a permit for Ali Abdurrahman, Tobacco and Vape, to operate at 927 S. Charles G. Seivers Blvd., the former site of More to Life Outfitters. The vote to deny the permit was unanimous, although Councilman Matt Foster was absent. The decision was in keeping with the city’s ordinance, passed June 22, allowing only one specialty vape shop per 10,000 residents. Clinton’s current population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, is 10,056. City building official Matt Widner explained at the meeting that the city’s nine existing vape specialty shops may continue to operate because they opened before the ordinance was passed. Any new shops are subject to the ordinance. The zoning ordinance defines “specialty shops” as stores dedicating 25% or more of their floor space to “electronic cigarettes/vaping devices, e-liquids/cartridges, edibles, concentrates or oil containing cannabis derivatives (including but not limited to CBD, Delta-8, Delta-9 or similar compounds permitted by law), kratom, glassware, pipes, vaporizers and other smoking or inhalation devices.”
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