DeKalb West School Honors Students, Teacher, and Employees

March 3, 2025
By: Bill Conger

DeKalb West School has announced the Students, Teachers, and Employees of the Month for both January and February. The first of the year was kicked off with the following top students: America Thompson, Pre-K; Dawson Randolph, Kindergarten; Oakleigh Poston, 1st; Adaline Gibbs, 2nd grade; Kai’lyn Hopkins, 3rd; Kaycie Avera, 4th; Noah Hall, 5th; Oliver Bell, 6th; Alyssa Cecil, 7th; and Kaylee Womack, 8th. Mrs. Teresa Sullivan was named Teacher of the Month and Mrs. Donna Driver was selected as Employee of the Month.

In February the following were chosen as Students of the Month: Hadley Pierce, Pre-K; Reese Leiser, Kindergarten; William Young, 1st grade; McKenzie Nokes, 2nd; Jude Sebolt, 3rd; Kennedy Avera, 4th; Xavier Oyugi, 5th; Holden Leiser, 6th; James Upchurch, 7th; and Kaden Mullinax, 8th.

Mrs. Jessica Antoniak was named Teacher of the Month, and Mrs. McKenzie Dunaway was selected as Employee of the Month.

March 3, 2025
By: Dwayne Page

How much is that doggie at the shelter?

“River” has been at the DeKalb Animal Shelter since she was a puppy. Almost a year later, its time she had a forever home of her own. You can help!

Call or come by the DeKalb Animal Shelter today to visit with “River”. Although it may take a little while for her to adjust to someone new, River loves people as well as cats and other dogs. She is very trainable and anxious to learn. River also enjoys playing in water. Her adoption fee is only $50.

If you are interested in meeting River, fill out an application on the animal shelter website or come in. Visit https://www.dekalbanimalsheltertn.com/ or call 615-597-3647.

The shelter is open Mondays-Fridays from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Transfer Station Road off Highway 70 east behind Tenneco.

March 1, 2025
By: Dwayne Page

For more than five decades, the present-day DeKalb County Courthouse has served as home to the court system, offices of local public officials, the election commission, veteran services and for meetings and other purposes.

Built in 1970 through the federal model cities program, the courthouse has served the county well and remains an active place, especially on days when court is in session, but it has also often become an uncomfortable environment due to a faulty chiller boiler heating and cooling system which causes portions of the building to be too hot in the summer and too cold during winter.

Its been a periodic problem for several years and the county has spent significant time and money trying to fix it. But now the 55-year-old system has completely failed and needs immediate attention at a time when replacement parts for it are no longer easy to come by.

During Monday night’s regular monthly County Commission meeting, County Mayor Matt Adcock said a temporary fix is the only option right now, but he plans to ask the commission to fund a completely new HVAC system in the new 2025-26 budget this summer.

“The boiler system is completely shot,” said County Mayor Adcock. “The boiler system is so old they have to make parts for it to work. They are trying to expedite it to get it here just to get the system up and running. Thinking about the future, I have asked a couple of different companies that’s come out. I have talked to them about doing a whole new heating and cooling system in the courthouse and completely get rid of the boiler,” said Adcock.

“I am probably going to ask for approximately $400,000 at budget time in capital projects to completely overhaul the entire system to remove the boiler, chiller, blower, and put in modern HVAC on all three floors with split units and thermostats. The cost to get it back up and running isn’t as significant as the permanent fix. The boiler works off the water pipes going up to the wall units that blows heat. The water from the boiler goes up but the pipes are so corroded between the wall units and the boiler that the hot water can’t get up there to blow hot air. You can touch the piping below the floor and its scalding hot and you touch the piping above and its ice cold. There is a lot of corrosion buildup in the lines so that the water can’t properly get throughout the courthouse to heat and cool. That’s the reason we are going to talk about doing an overall overhaul. I’m not quite sure what the cost will be yet. We will have to get an engineer to see how this project will be done and determine the cost because the courthouse has really thick marble and concrete. I’ve been told it would be anywhere from a quarter of a million dollars to half a million dollars to completely overhaul everything,” said County Mayor Adcock.

The county will have to accept bids for the project.

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