Enterprise
City of Progress
Enterprise in the News
January, February 2015
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Mayor delivers 2015
State of the City address
Jan. 22, 2015
Enteprise Mayor Kenneth Boswell delivered his third annual State of the City address Thursday, giving a crowd of about 500 a comprehensive review of the city government in 2014 and a look ahead at the busy year ahead. See the stories and video of local media coverage of the event by clicking on the links below:
Coppinville Road resurfacing under way
Jan. 24, 2015
Mayor Kenneth Boswell said the long-awaited resurfacing of Coppinville Road is under way. This is a much-used street that connects Highway 84 East and the Boll Weevil Circle near Wal-Mart. The project is being funded through the Alabama Tansportation Rehabilitation and Improvement Fund.
New Farmer's Market
to be ready soon
Jan. 2, 2015
Despite some construction delays, the new Farmer's Market building on North Main Street is approaching completion. Read and hear more about the new facility by clicking on the following media links.
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More room for people and veggies
Jan. 1, 2015
There will be a new hotel with 79 rooms, a new place for dogs to run as they please and a variety of new businesses opening in Enterprise in 2015. Find out more on The Enterprise Ledger website:
January 2015
Please click on the links to various media outlets to read more about the City of Enterprise in the news.
School system gets BIG check
As a result of city bond issue last year, the City of Enterprise was able to present a check of more than $16 million to the enterprise School System to help with the system's comprehensive capital plans. Please click on the links to various media outlets to read more.
City of Enterprise photo
Changes in city youth baseball leagues planned for this year
The Enterprise Ledger
Jan. 6, 2015
Baseball moms and dads may be better off forgetting their wedding anniversary than their kids’ upcoming registrations for baseball, softball and golf at the Enterprise Recreation Center.
Looking back at 2014
First-ever Enterprise Dog park
being prepared for opening
Jan. 2, 2015
Fencing has been put in place. Soon, trash cans and little plastic bags will be added, as will new signs with rules. At that point, let the wagging of the tails begin. For more about the Dog Park, click on the link below.
Southeast Sun photo
Enterprise Ledger photo
Rules posted for new Bark Park
Feb. 4, 2015
Posting the rules at the new Enterprise Bark Park brought the project closer to its official grand opening, Dog Park Committee President Jane Fletcher said.
For more details, click on the local media links below.
February 2015
Please click on the links to various media outlets to read more about the City of Enterprise in the news.
Mayor gives update
on various city projects
Feb. 8, 2015
By The Southeast Sun
The status of several projects ongoing in the city was outlined by Enterprise Mayor Kenneth Boswell for those attending the Feb. 3 city council meeting. The Lester Drive project is 85 percent complete, Boswell said. H and L Construction continues work on the $249,000 Lester Drive culvert replacement, which began at the end of last year. For more, see the story by clicking on
Two city garbage trucks destroyed by fire
Feb. 10, 2015
By The Enterprise Ledger
The Enterprise City Council voted on Tuesday to rent a pair of garbage trucks after fire destroyed two city-owned trucks.
The fire began Saturday morning under one of the sanitation department’s Freightliner trucks at the Public Works Department. It spread to a second truck after a fuel tank on the first truck melted, Mayor Kenneth Boswell said during a specially-called council meeting on Tuesday. For more details, click on the links below:
Garbage service not interrupted by fire
Feb. 10, 2015
By The Southeast Sun
"A Saturday morning fire created a “total loss” of two City of Enterprise garbage trucks but pickup service will not be interrupted, Enterprise Mayor Kenneth Boswell said in a special called emergency city council meeting Tuesday."
For more about the city's decision to rent two garbage trucks to prevent a lag in the pickup schedule, see the full article by clicking on the following link.
Sub-freezing temperatures expected;
cold weather shelter open in Enterprise
Feb. 18, 2015
Sub-freezing temperatures are expected to be in the low 20s overnight for the next few nights. Consequently, the City of Enterprise has activated its cold weather shelter plan in conjunction with the Christian Mission Center on Geneva Highway, which is now accepting residents or others who do not have a place to stay during the cold weather snap. For more, click on the following links:
Police to discontinue alarm monitoring
Feb. 18, 2015
Enteprrise Police Chief T.D. Jones told the Enterprise City Council Feb. 17 that the police department would be discontinuing monitoring burglar alarms and other alarms at Enterprise homes. For more, click on the link below:
City of Progress once again
gets national ranking
Feb. 20, 2015
By The Enterprise Ledger
The City of Progress has been honored again, this time as the top town in Alabama south of Auburn for Young Families to reside. Nerdwallet.com ranked Enterprise 18th best in Alabama in the category but far and away the best in the region with Opp a distant second at No. 38 overall. For more details, see the full story by clicking the link below:
Mayor urges everyone to support Fort Rucker at Feb. 23 'listening' meeting
Feb. 22, 2015
In anticipation of sequestration this fall, Army officials will be meeting with local leaders and the public Monday, Feb. 23, at 6 p.m. at the Post Theatre to hear support for Fort Rucker. The officials want to hear from the public about what Fort Rucker means to them and to the community. Mayor Kenneth W. Boswell encourages everyone to attend the meeting, which is extremely important to the economic future of the Wiregrass.
For more about the meeting, click on the links at right.
Police to discontinue alarm monitoring
Lester Drive
now open
Feb. 19, 2015
Though work is not completely finished on the culvert replacement and repaving project on Lester Drive, motorists have found that the street is open to through-traffic once again. The street is a popular cut-through route from Glover Avenue at Alabama Power Company, to Lee Street. Some grassing and other final improvements are still under way at the site. For more about the road opening, see the following link:
Wiregrass residents 'wow' Department of the Army
listening panel at Monday night sequestration meeting
Feb. 24, 2015
More than 1,600 people from throughout the Wiregrass packed the Post Theatre and Aviators Landing Monday night, Feb. 23, to share the Fort Rucker story with a panel of Department of the Army officials.
The 'listening' session with Brig. Gen. Roger Clautier, the Sgt. Maj. Robert Norvell and Col. Karl Konzelman spanned about three hours. Dozens of are leaders and residents were allowed to speak to the group about how the possible reduction of up to 3,000 jobs at Fort Rucker would affect them, their families and communities.
Sequestration's across-the-board cuts, made the law of the land by the Budget Control Act of 2011, would draw down the Army forc es from a wartime high of 570,000 to 420,000 by 2019. Konzelman told the crowd the Army would be at its lowest strength since before World War II.
For local media coverage of the meeting, click on the links at right.
City of Enterprise photo
Above, retiree Conrad Stemple talks to the panel about the bond between Fort Rucker and Enterprise.
AUSA thanks chapter sponsors
Floyd Rodgers, right, president of the Fort Rucker/Wiregrass Chapter, Association of the U.S. Army, presents a certificate of appreciation to Enterprise Mayor Kenneth W. Boswell at a recent AUSA Membership Luncheon meeting. Boswell accepted on behalf of the city, which is a Double Diamond chapter sponsor. (City photo)
Council discusses renovations at airport
and Bates Memorial Stadium
Feb. 24, 2015
At a work session Monday before the Feb. 25 council meeting, Enterprise City Council members discussed a $1.1 million renovation project at the municipal airport, and talked about improvements at Bates Memorial Stadium. For more information, click on the link below.
Feb. 25, 2015
Students from the Enterprise High School Career & Technical Education Department joined mayor Kenneth W. Boswell Feb. 25 to declare February as Career Tech Month. For more, click on the link below.
Students help mayo declare
Career Tech Month
City of Enterprise photo
Mayor Kenneth W. Boswell, center, is welcomed to the Enterprise Lions Club by President Betty Cully and Vice President George Baum. Boswell recently guested at the Wednesday luncheon meeting. (City photo)
Mayor visits Lions Club
Longtime firefighter retires
At left, retiring Capt. Dennis Lyles and his wife, Sharon, prepare to cut the cake at a ceremony honoring Lyles' 30 years of service in the Enterprise Fire Department.
Feb. 26, 2015
Enterprise City Clerk Steve Hicks, left, presents Capt. Dennis Lyles with an appreciation plaque for his 30 years of service to the Enterprise Fire Department. At a retirement ceremony in Lyles’ honor Feb. 26, Fire Chief Byron Herring, right, also presented Lyles' helmet to him as a traditional parting gift, and thanked him for outstanding performance through the years as the fire department grew and adjusted to fast-changing technologies and strategies. (City photos)
