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DCHS to Host Open House Tonight (Thursday)
October 27, 2022
By: Dwayne Page
DCHS presents an Open House October 27 starting at 5:45 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. featuring several Big Events including a Band Concert from 6 to 6:30 p.m. and a Choir Concert from 7 to 7:40 p.m.
Project Graduation will present a Haunted House from 5:45 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. Make a donation to enter. The Haunted House will remain open two hours later than the Open House.
Other activities include a LIVE wax museum, trick-or-treating, yearbook FLASH SALE, interactive student projects and work on display, chili cookoff, CTE/STEM demonstrations, face painting, hair braiding, and carnival games, and food trucks!
WJLE’s Fearless Forecasters College Football Talk Show Airs Today (Thursday) at 4:30 p.m.
October 27, 2022
By: Dwayne Page
Ricky Atnip remains the leader among WJLE’s Fearless Forecasters picking college football winners.
Atnip has the best overall record at 93-27 followed by Jared Davis at 89-31, Grant James 87-33, Darrell Gill 83-37, Scott Brown and Chad Kirby each at 82-38 and Scott Goodwin and John Pryor each at 80-40.
For the week, Ricky Atnip had the best record at 11-4 followed by Grant James 10-5, Jared Davis, Scott Goodwin and John Pryor each at 9-6, and Darrell Gill, Scott Brown, and Chad Kirby each at 8-7.
One Fearless Forecasters hit his underdog pick last week. Scott Goodwin picked up 6.5 points as Oklahoma State beat Texas 41-34.
Overall, Darrell Gill leads in underdog points with 17.5 followed by Scott Brown 17, Grant James, Jared Davis, and Scott Goodwin each with 11, and John Pryor and Ricky Atnip each have 6.5 points.
Today (Thursday) the Forecasters will be picking winners in the following games:
Ohio State at Penn State. Utah at Washington State, Oklahoma State at Kansas State, Cincinnati at UCF, Notre Dame at Syracuse, TCU at West Virginia, Oklahoma at Iowa State, Illinois at Nebraska, Pittsburgh at North Carolina, Arkansas at Auburn, Florida vs Georgia, Ole Miss at Texas A&M, Missouri at South Carolina, Kentucky at Tennessee and in the NFL the Tennessee Titans will be at the Houston Texans.
Catch the Fearless Forecasters on WJLE today (Thursday) at 4:30 p.m. on AM 1480/FM 101.7 and LIVE streaming at www.wjle.com.
The program is sponsored by the Charles D. Atnip Realty and Auction Company, Middle Tennessee Natural Gas, FirstBank, DeKalb County Insurance, Gill Automotive, Love-Cantrell Funeral Home, Davis Auto Body, and Domino’s Pizza.
Early Voting Tops 900 through Wednesday for November Elections
October 26, 2022
By: Dwayne Page
A total of 908 people has cast ballots in DeKalb County through the first seven days of early voting for the State and Federal November 8 elections.
Early Voting will be held Thursday, October 27 at the DeKalb County Courthouse in Smithville from 2 to 6 p.m. and at the DeKalb County Fairgrounds in Alexandria (one day only-Thursday, October 27) from 9 until 11 a.m.
Other times for early voting at the courthouse through November 3 are as follows: Monday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Tuesday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Wednesday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Thursdays 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Fridays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Saturdays 9 a.m. until Noon. The hours for voting at the 12 precincts on Election Day, November 8th are 8 a.m. until 7 p.m.
The daily breakdown of early voting for this election in DeKalb County is as follows:
Wednesday, October 19- 149 (113 in person and 36 by absentee)
Thursday, October 20- 142 (140 in person and 2 by absentee)
Friday, October 21- 140 (138 in person and 2 by absentee)
Saturday, October 22- 91 (90 in person and 1 by absentee)
Monday, October 24- 122 (110 in person and 12 by absentee)
Tuesday, October 25- 148 (146 in person and 2 by absentee)
Wednesday, October 26- 116 (100 in person and 16 by absentee or assisted living centers)
TOTAL: 908 (837 in person and 71 by absentee or assisted living centers)
Total early voting by precinct from October 19-26 is as follows:
Alexandria: 41
Temperance Hall- 45
Liberty-62
Snow Hill-50
Smithville Church of God-151
Rock Castle-6
Courthouse-196
Johnson Chapel-49
County Complex-116
Keltonburg-59
Blue Springs-33
Church of Christ Annex-100
TOTAL-908
Voters will be making their selections for Governor, Congressman and State Representative and voters in the 4th district only will have a candidate for Constable to fill an unexpired term. In addition, voters will be making their choices on four constitutional amendments.
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