Candidate Petitions to be Available Soon for March 2024 Primaries

October 5, 2023
By: Dwayne Page

It’ll soon be election time again!

The first election cycle in 2024 will be the DeKalb County Democratic and Republican Primaries to select nominees for the offices of Assessor of Property, Constable (districts 1-7), and Board of Education (5th & 6th) districts along with the newly created position of criminal court judge-Part III in the 13th judicial district. The primaries will be held on Tuesday, March 5th in conjunction with the Tennessee Presidential Preference Primary.

Candidates for the county primaries may begin picking up qualifying petitions from the DeKalb County Election Commission office Monday, October 16, 2023 and the qualifying deadline is Thursday, December 14 at 12 noon. The voter registration deadline for the March 5th primaries is February 5 and the early voting period will be Wednesday, February 14 through Tuesday, February 27. The Absentee ballot request deadline is Tuesday, February 27, 2024.

Independents wishing to run for Assessor of Property or Constable (districts 1-7), Board of Education (5th & 6th ) districts, or for criminal court judge-Part III in the August 2024 County General Elections must also qualify by noon on Thursday, December 14 at 12 noon.

Party nominees and independents for these offices will run in the DeKalb County General Election on Thursday, August 1, 2024 and those elected will take office September 1, 2024.

The incumbents in these offices are Assessor of Property Shannon Cantrell and Constables- 1st District: Waylon Kyle, 2nd District: Darrell Johnson, 3rd District: Travis Bryant, 4th District: Lane Ball, 5th District: Mark Milam, 6th District: Jason Brown, and 7th District: Johnny King.

The school board seats up for election in 2024 are currently held by Jamie Cripps in the 5th district and Jason Miller in the 6th district.

October 5, 2023
By: Dwayne Page

County Mayor Matt Adcock will appear on WJLE Tuesday morning, October 10 to discuss issues facing the county commission regarding the jail,

The 30-minute program will air from 8:00 a.m. until 8:30 a.m. and may be heard LIVE on WJLE AM 1480/FM 101.7, on the LIVE audio stream at www.wjle.com and on the WJLE Live Facebook Video Stream.

County Mayor Adcock will address the county’s needs and the options for addressing them including a possible new jail or criminal justice center, as well as needs regarding a new school.

Options on how to fund such projects will also be discussed.

The county commission has made no decision so far on any specific construction plan or funding option.

October 5, 2023
By: Dwayne Page

Grant James of the James Gang is now leading the pack of WJLE’s Fearless Forecasters picking college football winners after five weeks into the season.

Grant has a record of 58-17 followed by Dewain Hendrixson at 56-19, Ricky Atnip, Jared Davis, and Scott Goodwin each at 55-20, Darrell Gill of the Gill Gang and John Pryor each at 53-22, Chad Kirby 52-23, and Scott Brown at 51-24.

For the week, Grant James had the best week at 13-2 followed by Ricky Atnip at 12-3, Darrell Gill, Jared Davis, Scott Goodwin, Chad Kirby, John Pryor, and Dewain Hendrixson each at 11-4 and Scott Brown 10-5

Only one Fearless Forecaster hit his underdog picks last week. Darrell Gill got on the board with 11.5 points as Baylor defeated UCF 36-35.

Overall, Jared Davis leads in underdog points with 35 followed by Dewain Hendrixson with 12.5, Darrell Gill 11.5, Ricky Atnip with 7.5, Chad Kirby and John Pryor each with 6.5, and Scott Goodwin with 6 points.

Today (Thursday) the Forecasters will be picking winners in the following games:

Oklahoma at Texas, Notre Dame at Louisville, TCU at Iowa State, Oregon State at California, Washington State at UCLA, Boston College at Army, Syracuse at North Carolina, Purdue at Iowa, LSU at Missouri, UCF at Kansas, Alabama at Texas A&M, Arkansas at Ole Miss, Kentucky at Georgia, Vanderbilt at Florida, and in the NFL the Tennessee Titans at the Indianapolis Colts.

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, DeKalb County Ace Hardware, Middle Tennessee Natural Gas, FirstBank, DeKalb County Insurance, Gill Automotive, Love-Cantrell Funeral Home, Davis Auto Body, and Domino’s Pizza.

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