News
February 19, 2019
By: Dwayne Page
DCHS baseball fans are invited to a night of good food, a LIVE auction, and to meet Columbia State Community College Coach Mike Corn on Monday, March 4.
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This annual fundraiser for the DCHS baseball program sponsored by the Booster Club will start at 6 p.m. at the DeKalb County Community Complex.
Tickets are $8.00 per person or $25 per family. You may purchase tickets from any DCHS baseball player or at the door the night of the supper.
“Coach Corn will be our guest speaker and he is phenomenal. We’ll have a chili supper and an auction. We’ll have some donated items available for people to bid on during the auction,” said Tiger baseball coach Adam Kefauver.
All the money raised will be used in support of the DCHS baseball program. “We have tried to make improvements every single year and to sustain us throughout the year we have to do things like this to help us with trips and things like that so we appreciate everybody’s support,” said Coach Kefauver.
The season opener for the Tigers is March 12 at home against Sequatchie County starting at 5 p.m.
“Our guys have done a great job up to this point and I am excited with the kind of product we have. We have a young team but our leadership has been great,” added Coach Kefauver
2019 DCHS Tiger Baseball Schedule
Pre-Season
February 28: Gordonsville -Home: 4:30 pm
March 7: Grundy County- Away: 5:00 pm
Regular Season
March 12: Sequatchie County- Home : 5:00 pm
March 14: Red Boiling Springs- Home: 5:00 pm
March 18: Cannon County-Away: 5:00 pm
March 19: Cannon County- Home: 5:00 pm
March 21: Central Magnet- Away: 7:00 pm
March 20: Grundy County-Home: 5:00 pm
March 25: Cascade- Home : 4:30 pm
March 25: Cascade- Home: 6:30 pm
March 28-30: Pigeon Forge Tournament- Sevier Co High school TBA
April 1: Smith County- Home: 5:00 pm
April 2: Smith County-Away: 4:30 pm
April 4: Red Boiling Springs- Away: 5:00 pm
April 5: Jackson County- Away: 5:00 pm
April 6: Cumberland County- Home: 1:00 pm
April 8: Watertown- Away: 5:00 pm
April 9: Watertown- Home: 5:00 pm
April 11: Monterey-Away: 5:30 pm
April 15: York- Home: 5:00 pm
April 16: Livingston- Away: 5:00 pm
April 19: Sequatchie County- Away: 5:00 pm
April 22: Upperman- Home: 5:00 pm
April 23: Macon County- Away: 5:00 pm
April 25: Cumberland County- Away: 5:30 pm
April 29: White County-Home: 4:30 pm
April 29: Jackson County-Home: 7:00 pm
April 30: Monterey- Away: 5:00 pm
DCHS Students Can Earn Credit Recovery During Saturday School (VIEW VIDEO HERE)
February 19, 2019
By: Dwayne Page
DCHS students looking to recover credits from classes taken and failed have an opportunity through Saturday School.
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The next session of Saturday School is scheduled for February 23, March 2, March 9, and March 16 starting at 7:45 a.m. at the Alternative Learning Center on campus at DCHS.
Computer based classes are available in all core subject areas required for high school graduation.
Principal Randy Jennings said Saturday School gives students, especially those who don’t have internet access at home, an opportunity to do the makeup work at school.
“Under the law if a student fails a class making between a 50 and 69 score they are eligible for credit recovery versus retaking the entire class. They are set up on the Odysseyware system or A+. A teacher assigns them the lessons they have struggled with that caused them to fail the class and they make those lessons up on the computer. State law says they can recover credit up to a 70 score. The program is individualized. For example if a student failed a class with a 68 and another student failed the same class with a 50 obviously the student with a 50 is going to have much more work to do than the one with a 68 so it really depends on the grade and how much subject matter they need to do to recover that credit,” said Principal Jennings.
Space is limited to 10 students each Saturday. Interested students must sign up on the round table in the office. No breakfast or lunch is provided but students may bring their own lunch. Students must also come prepared with their A+ or Odysseyware username and password.
Danny Bond is the class instructor.
Pody Tells New TDOT Commissioner Proposed DeKalb Highway Projects Need to Start Moving
February 13, 2019
By: Dwayne Page
State Senator Mark Pody wants the Tennessee Department of Transportation to move forward with two major highway improvement projects planned for DeKalb County.
Pody, Vice Chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee, said he met last week with the new TDOT Commissioner Clay Bright and told him that these projects on Highway 56 between Smithville and the Warren County line and Highway 70 at Alexandria to Highway 96 in Liberty, have waited long enough.
“I told him that in our county that we have to get this done between McMinnville and Smithville. That has been put off several times. I also told him we have to get this project on Highway 70 extending into Wilson County and that it needs to be done all the way through. I thought those were the two highest priorities we have in our county. I would like to get it (Highway 70) widened all the way to the Wilson County line and eventually all the way up to Interstate 40 but Wilson County has some different priorities right now. They are not against it but it’s not their highest priority right now but I think it will be as we go through the process,” said Pody.
State funding is already in place for two phases of the proposed Highway 56 improvement project and at last report would be in TDOT’s March bid letting barring any further delays.
TDOT proposes to let bids for two of the phases from south of the Warren County line to near Magness Road (3.3 miles) and from south of State Route 288 near Magness Road to East Bryant Street in Smithville (5 miles). The third segment from near State Route 287 in Warren County to near the DeKalb County Line is not yet ready for bid letting.
Meanwhile plans are still in the works for expansion of Highway 70 (State Route 26) from Highway 53 in Alexandria to Highway 96 in Liberty but while right of way acquisition was long ago acquired for the project, the state does not have any immediate plans for construction. The $15.2 million project is included among those identified by TDOT to be addressed as part of the IMPROVE ACT adopted by the state legislature.
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