Marion County’s American Legion Post 62 on Elm Avenue in South PittsburgSOUTH PITTSBURG, Tenn. – Marion County American Legion Post 62 is just across the street from the South Pittsburg City Hall where an annual donation was once given to help keep the organization going.
At the September meeting of the South Pittsburg City Commission, board member Jimmy Wigfall said he wants to know why those contributions stopped.
“What happened?” he asked. “Usually when somebody [like a city government] is making donations, it’s an ongoing thing.”
Officials said South Pittsburg made an annual $3,000 donation to the American Legion for at least several consecutive years in the past, but that was stopped in 2008.
Current city leaders said they don’t know why the donations ceased.