DWS Announces January Students and Teacher of the Month

January 25, 2023
By: Bill Conger

DeKalb West School announced the Students of the Month for January on Tuesday (January 24). Selected for the honor were the following students: Maddie Ellis, PreK; Maddy Lattimore, Kindergarten; Kye Carter, 1st grade; Mason Checchi, 2nd grade; Braylin Niffen, 3rd grade; Holden Leiser, 4th grade; Hailey Brown, 5th grade; Kate Pistole, 6th grade; Porter Hancock, 7th grade; Wyatt Young, 8th grade. Teachers choose students for the top honor each month based on academics, character, and other positive traits.

Principal Sabrina Farler also announced that 8th grade teacher Dwayne Blair is the Teacher of the Month. Mr. Blair joined DWS this year to teach Math and Science after working in the Wilson County School System.

January 25, 2023
By: Dwayne Page

After it came to light last fall that a former solid waste employee had used a county issued fuel card for his own benefit, officials realized a policy was needed to guard against any abuses by county employees in the future.

During Monday night’s regular monthly meeting, the county commission adopted a DeKalb County Fuel Card use policy

County Mayor Matt Adcock issued the following statement on the new policy.

“This fuel card policy is to keep the fuel cards safe from theft and hold employees accountable for their assigned fuel card”.

“In the past we had an incident with an employee who took a fuel card home and purchased fuel for his personal vehicle.”

“This policy covers areas like storing the fuel cards in safe and secure locations, that they should remain in that position and never be taken home, that every employee has their own PIN number that can’t be shared with any other employee, and each vehicle fuel card is assigned to a vehicle and cannot be used with an unassigned vehicle”.

“We also made miscellaneous fuel cards for portable gas tanks, chainsaws, or etc”

“This policy requires lots of documentation like a department vehicle fuel log with vehicle mileage, the amount and type of fuel used, and the name of the operator doing the transaction. This information documented should match what we receive back from the fuel card action report at the end of the month”.

“This is a countywide policy that will be implemented for every department that uses a county vehicle and operates off of a fuel card,” said County Mayor Adcock.

January 25, 2023
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13-year-old Noah Goebel, Grand Champion Fiddler at the 51st Smithville Fiddlers Jamboree and Crafts Festival will be playing Saturday, January 28, 2023 at the Ryman Auditorium.

The Elkton, Kentucky resident, who also won the Junior Fiddling contest here, beat out the Senior Fiddling Champion Heather Brown Currie of Springfield in the showdown for the Berry C. Williams Memorial Award. Currie claimed the Grand Champion Fiddling Title in 1999 and 2001.

As the 2022 Grand Fiddle Off Champion, Goebel will be playing both shows- 7:00 pm and 9:30 pm on Saturday – a ‘fiddle tune’ for the Opry square dancers LIVE performance. Darrin Vincent suggested this date to Dan Rogers. It is a Bluegrass Night with Dailey & Vincent also performing.

“Noah is one very impressive young man. He is very talented, and the Jamboree Committee is so proud that he is representing us at the Ryman – The Mother Church of Country Music” , said Jamboree President Kim Luton.

In 2021, Goebel competed as a child in the James G. “Bobo” Driver Fiddlers Jamboree’s National Championship for Country Musician Beginners and won the Beginners Fiddling Title.

Noah stated “I’m honored to be playing the Opry at the Ryman this weekend. I am so grateful for the Smithville Fiddlers Jamboree, Darrin Vincent, Dan Rogers and all who made this possible. ”

For more information, visit smithvillejamboree.com or ryman.com.

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