Chamber Presents Community Improvement Award to Button Willow General Store and Coffee Shop

January 24, 2022
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The Smithville-DeKalb County Chamber presented a Community Improvement Award to Button Willow General Store and Coffee Shop located at 114 W. Main St. in downtown Smithville for their beautiful interior renovation.

New additions include a new and much longer coffee bar with additional seating, new deck areas by the front windows with street view seating, new kitchen section that includes specialty olive oils, spices, and a guitar and banjo section. You can also grind your own coffee beans or make your own natural peanut butter for the freshest taste in town!

The Community Improvement Award is awarded to individuals, groups, and businesses who exhibit high standards in maintaining the beauty of our community through projects such as landscaping, recycling, clean-up initiatives, and overall care and concern for the preservation and improvement of the natural and manmade assets of DeKalb County, Tennessee.

If you would like to make a Community Improvement Award nomination, please email Suzanne Williams at swilliams@dekalbcountychamber.org, text 615-464-7760, or call the Chamber at 615-597-4163.

January 24, 2022
By: Dwayne Page

Thirty one of the 61 petitions issued for the 2022 elections have been filed with the DeKalb County Election Commission, the first step in the process of persons becoming a qualified candidate.

The candidates who have filed their qualifying petitions with the election commission are as follows:

Democratic Primary May 3:
Register of Deeds– Shelby D. Reeder
Road Supervisor-Wayne Shehane
County Commissioner, District 3– Jack E. Barton, III
County Commissioner, District 6– Jeffery K. “Jeff” Barnes (Incumbent) and Danny L. McGinnis

Republican Primary May 3:
County Mayor– Matthew N. “Matt” Adcock and Anita T. Puckett
Sheriff-Patrick R. Ray (Incumbent) and Keneth Lee Whitehead
General Sessions Court Judge-Mingy Kay Ball and Brandon Cox
Register of Deeds– Daniel A. Seber
Road Supervisor-Danny Lynn Hale (Incumbent) and Shane Walker
County Clerk- James L. “Jimmy” Poss (Incumbent)
Circuit Court Clerk– Susan L. Martin (Incumbent)
Trustee-Sean D. Driver (Incumbent)

County Commissioner, District 1– Thomas E. “Tom” Chandler

County Commissioner, District 4– Greg Matthews

County Commissioner, District 5– Larry L. Green and Joshua E. Holloway

County Commissioner, District 6- Justin Douglas Adcock

County Commissioner, District 7– Boyd Bruce Malone, (Incumbent)

The Election Commission has also received the proper duplicate petitions from the following candidates in the 13th judicial district (multi-county races)

Republican Primary –May 3:

Chancellor- 13th Judicial District- Ronald Thurman (Incumbent)

Circuit Court Judge Part II- 13th Judicial District-Jonathan Young (Incumbent)

Circuit Court Judge Part I- 13th Judicial District -William T. “Will” Ridley

Criminal Court Judge Part II 13th Judicial District-Wesley Bray (Incumbent)

Public Defender13th Judicial District- Craig P. Fickling, Jr. (Incumbent)

Criminal Court Judge Part I 13th Judicial District- Gary S. McKenzie (Incumbent)

District Attorney General 13th Judicial District- Bryant C. Dunaway (Incumbent)

August General Election

Circuit Court Judge Part 1 13th Judicial District- Amy Turnbull Hollars (Incumbent) to run as an Independent candidate

Offices on the May 3 Democratic and Republican primary ballots include: County Mayor; Road Supervisor; Sheriff, General Sessions Judge; Circuit Court Clerk; County Clerk; Trustee; Register of Deeds; County Commissioner in all seven (7) districts (2 can be nominated per district); School Board members in districts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7; Constable in District 4 to fill a vacancy; Circuit Court Judge Part I and Part II (13th Judicial District); Chancellor (13th Judicial District); Criminal Court Judge Part I and Part II (13th Judicial District); District Attorney General (13th Judicial District); and Public Defender (13th Judicial District).

Petitions must be returned by Noon February 17th.

There is an additional earlier deadline for Sheriff and Road Supervisor candidates. They must have appropriate paperwork to the Peace Officer Standards Training Commission (POST) for sheriff and the Tennessee Highway Officials Certification board 14 days before the qualifying deadline.

While the above offices will appear on May primary ballots, candidates also have the option to run as Independent candidates who will not appear on the ballot until August. However, the same qualifying deadlines apply.

Winners of the May primaries will square off against each other in the August DeKalb County General Election along with any properly qualified Independent candidates.

The local election office is open Monday-Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and is located on the first floor of the DeKalb County Courthouse.

The entire list of persons who have been issued qualifying petitions by the election commission office for either the May primaries or the August General Election is as follows:

Democratic Primary-May3:
County Mayor- Mike Foster and Timothy Robert “Tim” Stribling (Incumbent)
General Sessions Court Judge-Margie Rigsby Miller and Tecia Puckett Pryor
Register of Deeds– Shelby D. Reeder
Road Supervisor-Wayne Shehane
County Commissioner, District 1– Julie Ann Young (Incumbent)
County Commissioner, District 2– Billy Myron Rhody (Incumbent)
County Commissioner, District 3– Jack E. Barton, III, Susannah Cripps Daughtry (Incumbent), and Jenny A. Trapp (Incumbent)
County Commissioner, District 4– Janice M. Fish Stewart (Incumbent)
County Commissioner, District 6– Michael Paul Atnip, Jeffery K. “Jeff” Barnes (Incumbent), Danny L. McGinnis
County Commissioner, District 7– Mary Elizabeth “Beth” Pafford (Incumbent)

Board of Education (School Board), District 1– Robert D. (Danny) Parkerson, Jr. (Incumbent). Parkerson also obtained a petition to run as an independent candidate for School Board, District 1 but he can only return one petition to the election commission to run either as a Democratic Candidate in the May Primary or as an Independent Candidate in the August County General Election.
Board of Education (School Board), District 4– Dr. Scott Little

AUGUST GENERAL ELECTION:

County Commissioner, District 4– Wayne Cantrell- Independent
County Commissioner, District 3– Robert Anthony “Tony” Luna- Independent
Board of Education (School Board), District 7-Emitt Shaun Tubbs (Incumbent)-Independent candidate

Republican Primary-May 3:
County Mayor– Matthew N. “Matt” Adcock, Bradley S. Hendrix, Anita T. Puckett
Sheriff-Patrick R. Ray (Incumbent) and Keneth Lee Whitehead
General Sessions Court Judge-Mingy Kay Ball and Brandon J. Cox
Register of Deeds– Daniel A. Seber
Road Supervisor-Danny Lynn Hale (Incumbent) and Shane Walker
County Clerk- James L. “Jimmy” Poss (Incumbent)
Circuit Court Clerk– Susan L. Martin (Incumbent)
Trustee-Sean D. Driver (Incumbent)

County Commissioner, District 1– Bennett Armstrong and Thomas E. “Tom” Chandler
County Commissioner, District 2– James David “Jim” Pearson and Sabrina R. Farler (Incumbent)
County Commissioner, District 3– Joshua Brown Chapman
County Commissioner, District 4– Tony L. “Cully” Culwell and Gregory S. “Greg” Matthews
County Commissioner, District 5– Jerry Adcock (Incumbent), Larry L. Green, Joshua E. Holloway, and Steve Randall Merriman
County Commissioner, District 6– Justin Douglas Adcock
County Commissioner, District 7– Boyd Bruce Malone, (Incumbent), Trevin Merriman, and Timothy Brian Reynolds

Board of Education (School Board), District 2- Thomas Alan Hayes (Incumbent) and Matthew J. Quarles
Board of Education (School Board), District 3-Jim Beshearse (Incumbent)
Board of Education (School Board), District 7-Ryan Wayne Mollinet

January 23, 2022
By: Dwayne Page

This is School Board Appreciation Week in Tennessee, and the DeKalb County School District is joining others from across the state to celebrate and honor local board members for their commitment to DeKalb County and its children.

The theme “Building the Future” reminds everyone to celebrate the unique role school boards play in building a future for their students, championing and advocating for quality education, and governing their local public schools. As the elected representatives of the people in their local communities, they represent their local communities’ voice and vision for the future of their public schools.

“It takes strong schools to build a strong community, and these men and women devote countless hours to making sure our schools are helping every child learn at a higher level, “said Director of Schools Patrick Cripps.

“The school board’s main goal is to support student achievement”, Director Cripps added.

To achieve that goal, the board focuses on the following needs:

• Creating a vision for what the community wants the school district to be and for making student achievement the top priority;

• Setting the direction of the school district to achieve the highest student performance;

• Ensuring progress is measured to be sure the district’s goals are achieved and students are learning at expected levels;

• Supporting a healthy and safe school district culture in which to work and to learn;

• Forming partnerships with others in the community to solve common problems; and

• Focusing on continuous improvement by questioning, examining, revising, refining, and revisiting issues related to student achievement.

“Even though we are making a special effort during the last week of January to show appreciation for our school board members, we recognize their contributions reflect a year-round effort on their part,” Director Cripps said.

School Board members serving DeKalb County are Danny Parkerson, Alan Hayes, Jim Beshearse, Kate Miller, Jamie Cripps, Jason Miller, and Shaun Tubbs.

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