DPC to Host International Overdose Awareness Day Observance

August 4, 2023
By: Dwayne Page

The DeKalb Prevention Coalition hopes to light up Greenbrook Park Friday, September 1 to honor and remember loved ones lost to overdose death.

A Purple Glow Stick Vigil and LED Paper Glow Bag Walk for International Overdose Awareness Day will be held at Greenbrook Park from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.

The observance will also feature guest speakers, hot dogs and chips and free overdose reversal training for all.

If you have a loved one who has passed due to an overdose please come and write your loved one’s name or a positive message on a paper glow bag.

For more information email dekalbtnprevention@gmail.com or follow on Facebook.
This project is funded under a grant contract with the State of Tennessee and Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

August 3, 2023
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District is holding a public meeting 5 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, at the Smith County Agricultural Center in Carthage, Tennessee, to discuss a draft Environmental Assessment and unsigned Finding of No Significant Impact for the revision of the 1998 Center Hill Dam and Reservoir Water Control Manual.

The Environmental Assessment evaluates proposed operational changes, resource categories, and alternatives to assess potential effects of proposed water control manual updates.

In addition to the public meeting, there is a 30-day comment period ending on Sept. 1, 2023. The Nashville District is soliciting feedback on proposed changes to hydropower ramp rates, sluice gate operations, and minimum flow requirements at Center Hill Dam. Comments may be sent via email to corpsLRNPlanningPublicCom@usace.army.mil.

“This comment period and public meeting are an opportunity for stakeholders and the public to provide
feedback on the agency’s tentatively selected plan,” said Patrick Garner, project planning branch
environmental section biologist.

The Draft Environmental Assessment is prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) (42 U.S.C. §§ 4321-4370h), Council on Environmental Quality Regulations (40 C.F.R. §§ 1500-1508),
and the Corps’ implementing regulation, ER 200-2-2, 1988 (33 C.F.R. § 230), The Draft Finding of No
Significant Impact can be viewed at https://usace.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getfile/collection/p16021coll7/id/24361.

The Draft Environmental Assessment 1998 Water Control Manual Revision can be viewed at
https://usace.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getfile/collection/p16021coll7/id/24362.

The Smith County Agricultural Center is located at 159 Agricultural Center Lane in Carthage, Tennessee.

August 3, 2023
By: Dwayne Page

A local man and clergyman in the community has been indicted by the grand jury in a child sex crime.

James Michael Carpenter is being held without bond on a charge of aggravated sexual battery. He was named in a sealed indictment by the grand jury last week.

The victim was 4 years old at the time of the first offense.

According to the indictment, Carpenter “on or about April 17, 2015 to April 17, 2017 in DeKalb County and before the finding of this indictment did unlawfully make sexual contact with a minor child less than 13 years of age in violation of state law”.

Carpenter will be arraigned in DeKalb County Criminal Court on August 7.

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