Newly Elected County Officials Sworn In Tuesday Night and will Take Office Saturday (VIEW VIDEOS HERE)

August 29, 2018
By: Dwayne Page

Although their terms of office don’t officially begin until Saturday, September 1, all the newly elected officials of county and district offices were sworn in Tuesday evening at the county complex auditorium.

(VIEW VIDEO BELOW OF CIRCUIT COURT CLERK SUSAN MARTIN TAKING OATH OF OFFICE FROM JUDGE BRATTEN COOK, II)

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Judge Bratten Cook, II administered the oath to the newly elected county commissioners and school board members as a group and to the others individually including County Mayor Tim Stribling, Circuit Court Clerk Susan Martin, Road Supervisor Danny Hale, Sheriff Patrick Ray, County Clerk James L. (Jimmy) Poss, Trustee Sean Driver, and Register of Deeds Jeff McMillen.

(VIEW VIDEO BELOW OF ROAD SUPERVISOR DANNY HALE TAKING OATH OF OFFICE FROM JUDGE BRATTEN COOK, II)

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The new county commissioners are Dennis Slager and Julie Williams Young from the 1^st district, Myron Rhody and Sabrina Farler from the 2^nd district, Jenny Trapp and Bobby Johnson from the 3^rd district, Janice Fish-Stewart and Scott Little from the 4^th district, Jerry Adcock and Anita Puckett from the 5^th district, Jeff Barnes and Matt Adcock from the 6^th district, and Beth Pafford and Bruce Malone from the 7 district.

(VIEW VIDEO BELOW OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TAKING THE OATH OF OFFICE AS A GROUP FROM JUDGE BRATTEN COOK II)

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Newly elected Board of Education members are Danny Parkerson from the 1^st district, Alan Hayes from the 2^nd district, Jim Beshearse from the 3^rd district, Kate Miller from the 4^th district, and Shaun Tubbs from the 7^th district.

(VIEW VIDEO BELOW OF NEWLY ELECTED SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS TAKING THE OATH OF OFFICE AS A GROUP FROM JUDGE BRATTEN COOK II)

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Terms of each office are for four years.

August 28, 2018
By: Bill Conger

The DeKalb West School Junior Beta Club inducted its new slate of officers in a special ceremony Monday night (August 27). Isaac Brown took over the reigns as President. Brett Walker will step up as Vice President while Aly Griffith is Secretary. Aniston Farler will serve as Treasurer, Madison Martin is the Chaplain, and Kortnee Skeen is the club’s reporter. Club members also elected two 7^th grade representatives: Jaxon Humphrey and Ella Hendrixson, and three 6^th grade representatives: Kenson Moss, Grant Buterbaugh, and Chloe Dies.

Vice President Walker told the crowd that “the purpose of the National Beta Club is to promote the ideals of academic achievement by recognizing and honoring high academic achievement, with character by preparing young people for life and empowering them to be successful, through leadership by developing the leaders of tomorrow and through service by demonstrating our motto: Let Us Lead by Serving Others.”

New members, who were given formal invitations to join based on their academic abilities and excellent character, were honored in a Wheel Induction ceremony.

“Each of the officers will share about a part of the wheel,” Aniston Farler explained. “In the mechanism of a wheel, all of the spokes fasten on the hub and run evenly outward, to be caught finally in the rim on which the wheel rolls.”

Club officers spoke of how character, achievement, scholarship, helpfulness, school spirit, patriotism, and leadership help make a quality Junior Beta student.

Students inducted included from the 6^th grade: Grant Buterbaugh, Caroline Crook, Thomas Damron, Chloe Dies, Wesley Kent, Caleb Lawson, Kenson Moss, Bradley Pelham, Evan Prichard, Autumn Reinhart, Jordyn Turbeville, Cheyenne Young and Emily Young; from the 7^th grade: Trey Beilfuss (BILE-foos) and Marshall Farler, Shauna Kempf, and Melanie Ortiz (Or –Tease) and from the 8^th grade: Gabby Wheatley.

Club officers were presented with medallions while new members were handed a certificate, membership card and pin.

August 28, 2018
By: Dwayne Page

A Chestnut Mound man had a close call Tuesday morning after his boat caught fire on Center Hill Lake at the Floating Mill Recreation Area.

Dale Heady said he had just launched his 18 foot 1989 Rinker pleasure boat from the boat ramp and was only a few hundred yards off shore when he heard a pop and then saw the fire. “At first I thought I had hit a rock. A couple nearby heard it too and told me later they thought it was a backfire,” he said.

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Heady grabbed a fire extinguisher and tried unsuccessfully to put out the blaze. The then put on his life jacket, jumped in the lake, and swam safely to shore.

Members of the TWRA, US Army Corps of Engingeer Rangers, DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department, and DeKalb County Volunteer Fire Department responded.  A hose from a boat was used to spray water on the burning boat but it could not be salvaged.

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