Chamber Presents Milestone Award to The Real Estate Team

June 19, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

The Smithville-DeKalb County Chamber presented a 20-Year Milestone Award to The Real Estate Team, 3263 Nashville Hwy., Smithville.

The Real Estate Team would like to thank all of DeKalb County for its continued support of their locally-owned and operated agency. Owner and Managing Broker Tony Fuston says, “We started in a small building downtown in 1999 and grew into this almost 4,000 sq. ft. facility across from DeKalb Market. We have 12 agents with a combined 100+ years’ experience who can help with any real estate need including farms, lake property, commercial, or your first, second, or forever home.” Congratulations Real Estate Team on your 20-Year Celebration!

Row 1: Chamber President Beth Adcock; Donna Cripps, Affiliate Broker; Betsy Smith, Affiliate Broker; Betty Lattimore, Owner/Broker; Tony Fuston, Owner/Managing Broker; Gina Denman, Affiliate Broker; Chamber Board Member Kathy Hendrixson; Christy Cantrell, Affiliate Broker; Kiki Brown, Affiliate Broker (and Rowdy the dog)

Row 2: Chamber Director Suzanne Williams; Danny Conger, Affiliate Broker; Seth Willoughby, Affiliate Broker; Chamber Board Members – Billie Davis, Mark Taylor, and Lisa Cripps

Not Pictured:
Affiliate Brokers – Wayne Cantrell, Todd Pack, and Josh Cunningham

June 19, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

An Indiana man charged with having unlawful sex with a minor was sentenced in DeKalb County Criminal Court Tuesday.

35 year old James Skyler Miller of South 25th Street New Castle Indiana entered a plea to two counts of aggravated statutory rape and violation of the sex offender registry. He received a 4 year
sentence in each case to run consecutively for a total of 8 years on TDOC probation and concurrently with a Jackson County case against him. Miller was given jail credit from August 12, 2018 to June 18, 2019 and he must have no contact with the victim.

Miller was indicted in October 2018 for allegedly having sex with a 16 year old in May and July 2017. Miller was 33 years old at that time. He is a registered sex offender in Indiana.

June 19, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

It’s official!

Recent DCHS graduate Madi Cantrell is a National Merit Scholar.

Cantrell, daughter of Todd and Jenny Cantrell of Smithville, is among more than 3,500 winners of the National Merit Scholarships financed by U.S. colleges and universities.

The formal public announcement was made on June 4th.

“I have been selected as a National Merit Scholar and a recipient of a College Sponsored Scholarship from the University of Alabama. With my previous National Merit Finalist scholarship offer, I will be receiving $200,000 from the university with a large portion of this directly correlated to my participation in this program,” said Cantrell.

Her field of study will be Chemical Engineering.

Officials of each sponsor college selected their scholarship winners from among the Finalists in the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program who plan to attend their institution. These awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship. An additional group of Scholars will be announced in July, bringing the total number of college-sponsored Merit Scholarship recipients in the 2019 competition to about 4,100.

This year, 173 higher education institutions are underwriting Merit Scholarship awards through the National Merit Scholarship Program. Sponsor colleges and universities include 95 private and 78 public institutions located in 43 states and the District of Columbia.

 College-sponsored Merit Scholarship winners are a part of the distinguished group of about 7,600 high school seniors who will receive National Merit Scholarships for college undergraduate study worth over $31 million. Earlier this spring, NMSC announced winners of corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards and National Merit $2500 Scholarships.

Over 1.6 million juniors in approximately 22,000 high schools entered the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program when they took the 2017 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. Last fall, approximately 16,000 Semifinalists were named on a state-representational basis in numbers proportional to each state’s percentage of the national total of graduating high school seniors. Semifinalists were the highest-scoring program entrants in each state and represented less than one percent of the nation’s seniors.

To compete for Merit Scholarship awards, Semifinalists first had to advance to the Finalist level of the competition by fulfilling additional requirements. Each Semifinalist was asked to submit a detailed scholarship application, which included writing an essay and providing information about extracurricular activities, awards, and leadership positions. Semifinalists also had to have an outstanding academic record, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, and earn SAT® scores that confirmed the qualifying test performance. From the Semifinalist group, some 15,000 met requirements for Finalist standing, and about half of the Finalists will be Merit Scholarship winners in 2019.

NMSC, a not-for-profit corporation that operates without government assistance, was established in 1955 to conduct the National Merit Scholarship Program. The majority of National Merit Scholarships provided each year are made possible by the support of approximately 400 independent corporate and college sponsors. These sponsors join NMSC in its efforts to enhance educational opportunities for America’s scholastically talented youth and to encourage the pursuit of academic excellence.

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