Two Dry Ala. Counties Will Vote on Alcohol Sales

    Petitioners in Cleburne and Randolph
counties have gathered enough signatures to put a referendum on
legal alcohol sales on the Nov. 4 election ballot.

    But an effort in Clay County to get a referendum on alcohol
sales was unsuccessful. Clay County Probate Judge George Ingram
said Wednesday petitioners told him they had not collected enough
names.

    State law requires a petition representing 25 percent of the
number of those who voted in the last countywide election to get a
referendum on the ballot. Petitioners got just enough in Cleburne
and Randolph.

    The effort in Cleburne County has been led by cousins Josh and
Dylan Laminack, muscadine growers who want to build a winery but
can’t under the current law.

    Citizens for a Better Randolph County organized the petition
movement there.