New County Commission Names Stribling Chairman

September 25, 2018
By: Dwayne Page

County Mayor Tim Stribling was re-elected Chairman of the County Commission Monday night.

It was the first act of the new county commission, which met in regular monthly session for the first time since being elected last month

Sixth district member Jeff Barnes, the longest serving member of the commission at 16 years, was named chairman pro temp.

Members of the new commission are Julie Young and Dennis Slager in the 1^st district, Sabrina Farler and Myron Rhody in the 2^nd district, Jenny Trapp and Bobby Johnson in the 3^rd district, Scott Little and Janice Fish-Stewart in the 4^th district, Jerry Adcock and Anita Puckett in the 5^th district, Jeff Barnes and Matt Adcock in the 6^th district, and Bruce Malone and Beth Pafford in the 7^th district.

September 24, 2018
By: Dwayne Page

A 20 year old Kentucky woman has been caught trying to smuggle drugs hidden inside hair clippers to an inmate at the DeKalb County Jail.

Claire Mackenzie May of Bowling Green, Kentucky is charged with possession, manufacture, sale, or delivery of methamphetamine and bringing contraband into a penal institution. May’s bond is $50,000 and her court date is October 11.

Sheriff Patrick Ray said that on Saturday, September 22 May came to the sheriff’s office to drop off some hair clippers for an inmate. During a search, a correctional officer found  hidden inside the hair clippers, two small baggies that contained 10 grams of a white crystal substance that appeared to be methamphetamine and two and a half  Suboxone  strips

September 24, 2018
By: Dwayne Page

County Clerk James L. (Jimmy) Poss is on a mission to save paper records in his office by digitizing them.

Right now more than 100 years of vital records, including marriage licenses, county commission minutes and more are all in their original paper forms, bound in books

With the technology so readily available, Poss said it only makes sense to preserve these records in a digital format and to scan new ones into the system going forward. It would also make the records easier for the public to access either in the county clerk’s office or on-line

Poss has already mentioned the concept to the county commission and plans to make a formal request within the next couple of months.

“I truly want to protect these records for our county. This would serve as an alternate form of protection from fire, water, age & physical damage etc. This will also provide easier access and more options for citizens when in need for such documents as searching county commission records, resolutions and marriage records. A number of our more recent marriages are currently available online at tncountyclerk.com. However, many older records are not searchable at this time,” said Poss

“In order to complete this process it would involve many hours of in house scanning and for certain older books it  would require additional funding for the appropriate scanner to handle the size of the document,” he said.

“I look forward to addressing this issue again with our commission in hopes of beginning  a process that secures, and allows these records to be searched, viewed and printed from home or in the county clerk’s office,” said Poss.

Business Information Systems (BIS) offers a “Minutes Program” software which provides the capability of scanning documents including county commission minutes into the server and sending them to BIS for Optical Character Recognition conversion. Once scanned, a user can access the software to search any documents that have already been scanned. Benefits of the On-Line Minutes Program are that it is a web-based service and it is free to the public to search and print records without having to contact the county clerk’s office.

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