Alexandria Police Catch Lebanon Man with Stolen Motorcycle

January 4, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

A Lebanon man found with a stolen motorcycle has been charged by Alexandria Police with theft of property over $1,000.

29 year old Aaron Scott Elmore is also charged with a 2nd offense of driving while licensed revoked and resisting stop, frisk, halt, arrest, or search. His total bond on the charges is $11,500 and he will make a court appearance on January 17.

According to the arrest warrant, Alexandria Police Officer Josh Arnold responded to 216 Church Street on Saturday, December 29 to conduct an investigation and spotted a black 2017 Suzuki motorcycle which looked like one that he tried to pull over the day before on Friday, December 28. Officer Arnold spoke with Elmore who admitted to having driven the motorcycle which failed to yield to the traffic stop. Elmore also admitted to still having possession of the motorcycle. A computer check through the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) revealed that the motorcycle was reported stolen out of Nashville on October 7. A further check through central dispatch showed Elmore’s driver license to be revoked for DUI pertaining to alcohol or drugs in Wilson County from March 22, 2016 to March 22, 2018 with no reinstatement. He also has a prior driving while license revoked offense against him in Smith County which occurred on September 25, 2017.

Elmore was placed under arrest and transported to the jail for booking.

January 4, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

After 48 years in banking Brenda Cantrell has decided to call it a career.

The Senior Financial Center Manager at the Smithville Branch of First Bank is retiring. Cantrell’s last day is next Friday, January 11 and fellow employees will host a retirement celebration for her from 2-4 p.m. that day. The public is invited to stop by.

Cantrell’s career in banking began after she graduated high school in 1970. She went to work at 1st National Bank in Smithville, where Regions Bank is now located. A year and a half later she joined the staff at Citizens Bank (now First Bank) and has remained there in the same building for more than 46 years.

“I started out as a bookkeeper filing checks and getting out statements. I progressed to bookkeeper and teller. Back in those days you had many hats to wear. I was a proof operator, a drive through window teller, and a cashier doing the bank’s book. I then became a loan officer and was secretary to the board when we were still Citizens Bank, and then I advanced to assistant branch manager and later became branch manager,” said Cantrell.

Over the decades, Cantrell has seen many changes in banking.

“Technology is the biggest issue for anybody right now and staying up to date with everything going. I started out filing checks when I began in the banking business, posting them to people’s accounts and mailing out the statements. That’s now done by automation. You run the checks through a scanner and it automatically memos to the customer’s account. The changes have been phenomenal,” Cantrell continued.

“When I started we were Citizens Bank and then it was sold to First American. Am South then purchased First American and later Am South and Regions merged with Regions being the surviving name. In 2007 First Bank bought seven branches of Am South and we have been First Bank ever since,” said Cantrell.

As for retirement, Brenda said she doesn’t have any specific plans.

“I don’t really have any plans. I’d like to get more involved with God’s Pantry and church activities and maybe visit the senior citizens center since I am a legitimate senior citizen now,” said Cantrell.

Brenda said she will miss her many banking customers and fellow employees.

January 4, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

The DeKalb County Board of Education will consider a light agenda when it meets in regular monthly session next Thursday night, January 10 at 7 p.m. at the Ernest Ray Education Center. A work session will be held prior to the regular meeting at 6 p.m.

The agenda is as follows:

Directors personnel report

Committee and school reports

Any other business that may properly come before the Board.

The consent agenda is to consider and act on the fiscal year 2018 Impact Aid Section 8002 Application and consider and act on approval of a grant for the Back Pack Program.

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