21st Annual Fiddler 5K and One Mile Fun Run Next Week (VIEW VIDEO HERE)

June 26, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

The 21st annual Fiddler 5K and One Mile Fun Run, sponsored by Habitat for Humanity of DeKalb County will be Saturday, July 6. All proceeds from the race are used in building another Habitat for Humanity home in DeKalb County.

The race on Saturday, July 6 will begin promptly at 7:00 a.m. RAIN OR SHINE. The course will continue along the same path as last year beginning and ending on Church Street in Downtown Smithville.

The Fiddler 5K is a qualifying race for the Run the Cumberland Medal Series of Races.

Anybody who is interested in participating either in the one mile fun run or the 5K may go to www.fiddler5k.com where you’ll find a printable registration form that provides all the details of registration and a link to online registration. A course map is also available there.

The deadline for online pre-registration at itsyourface.com is noon July 3rd

Participants may sign up on race day, July 6 starting at 6:00 a.m. (please bring your completed form).

The cost of race day registration is $30 and $25 for those age 18 and younger. For early registration it’s $25 for adults age 19 and older and for youth its $20 for ages 18 and younger. All participants receive free refreshments and are eligible for door prize giveaways before the awards ceremony. Strollers are welcome in the race but should line up at the rear. No pets allowed.

“A perk of pre-registration is that you can show up on Friday night, July 5 from 5-7 p.m. at the Smithville First Baptist Church Life Enrichment Center and pick up your packet which includes your bib and t-shirt. That way you don’t have to get up quite as early on Saturday morning to check in. But you can check in as early as 6:00 a.m. Saturday morning if you pre-register,” said Race Director Tecia Puckett Pryor.

The course is certified, and the race is professionally timed by Scenic City Multisport of Chattanooga.

“For our awards, we give an overall male award and a female award for the fastest runners. We also give a Masters award which is for the fastest male and female age 40 and older We present the top three awards in the age categories of nine and younger, and then go up from there in five year increments. We give ribbons for those categories. For the Fun Run, we only give awards for children who are age twelve and younger. We give overall awards for male and female and then we give ribbons to the top three. Everybody gets a nice ribbon and the overall winners get medals,” she said

For more information call 615-597-7370, email director@fiddler5k.com, visit www.fiddler5k.com, or Facebook at www.facebook.com/HFHDeKalbTN.

Fiddler 5k 2019 Registration Form.pdf

June 26, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

Six people indicted after undercover drug investigations by the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department had their day in criminal court last Tuesday.

Judge David Patterson presided.

23 year old Aaron Jeffery Jones entered a plea to 2 counts of sale of methamphetamine over 0.5 grams and received a 10 year sentence on TDOC probation after serving 300 days in the county jail. He was fined $4,000. The terms are to run concurrently with each other and concurrently with a Warren County sentence against him. He must make $700 restitution to the sheriff’s department. Jones was given jail credit from November 4, 2018 to June 18, 2019

37 year old Willie Ray Murphy entered a plea to sale of a schedule II drug (methamphetamine) over 0.5 grams and received an 8 year sentence to serve in the Tennessee Department of Correction as a range II offender. He must serve at least 35% of the term before his release eligibility date. Murphy was fined $2,000. He must make $435 restitution to the sheriff’s department. Murphy was given jail credit of 319 days

25 year old Resha Nicole Martin entered a plea to sale of a schedule III drug (suboxone) and received a 3 year sentence on TDOC probation. She was fined $2,000 and must make $340 restitution to the sheriff’s department.

25 year old Jesse Ray Herman entered a plea to sale of a schedule II drug (methamphetamine) over 0.5 grams and received an 8 year TDOC sentence suspended to supervised probation except for 180 days to serve. He was fined $2,000 and must make $360 restitution to the sheriff’s department. Herman was given jail credit of 228 days.

35 year old Anthony Joe Hamilton entered a plea to sale of a schedule II drug (methamphetamine) over 0.5 grams and received an 8 year sentence on TDOC probation after serving 180 days in the county jail. He was fined $2,000. The term is to run concurrently with a misdemeanor sentence he is currently serving. Hamilton must make $150 restitution to the sheriff’s department. He was given jail credit of 71 days.

37 year old Danny Ray Murphy entered a plea to sale of a schedule II drug (methamphetamine) and received a 6 year sentence to serve in the Tennessee Department of Correction at 60% before his release eligibility date. He was fined $2,000. Murphy must make $360 restitution to the sheriff’s department. He was given 75 days jail credit.

The DeKalb County Grand Jury met in special session Monday, October 29, 2018 and returned sealed indictments in several drug cases including four of these defendants. The other two, Danny Ray Murphy and Anthony Joe Hamilton were indicted in April, 2019 by the grand jury after an undercover drug operation by the sheriff’s department.

June 26, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

The self-service driver license kiosks across the state including at the DeKalb County Clerk’s Office will not be available beginning Friday, June 28 at 5:00 pm through Monday, July 1 at 7:00 am due to a driver license system upgrade to permit the issuance of REAL ID compliant driver licenses and identification licenses on July 1, 2019.

The initial issuance of a REAL ID compliant credential cannot be issued at the self-service kiosk and must be issued at any of the 44 Driver Services Centers or at participating County Clerk locations.

Citizens will only be able to renew or apply for a duplicate of a REAL ID driver license or Identification license that has already been issued. Applicants using the self-service kiosk who are not seeking a REAL ID driver license or Identification license will receive a non-compliant credential via the kiosk if they do not already have a REAL ID credential. For more information regarding REAL ID please visit the REAL ID website at www.tnrealid.gov .

The Department has been actively working to provide additional services via the self-service kiosk and to restore the change of address functionality. The following Phase 1 functionalities will be available via the self-service kiosk July 2019:

• Restored Change of Address functionality within a transaction;
• Change of Address Only functionality as a stand-alone transaction;
• Eligibility enhancement that informs applicants of the services available to them; thereby, reducing the selection of ineligible transactions;
• Address Verification through USPS;
• Correction of issue resulting in the dropping of the apartment number during a kiosk transaction;
• Advance a Graduated Driver License (GDL) from an Intermediate Restricted Driver License to Intermediate Unrestricted Driver License;
• Advance an Intermediate Unrestricted driver license (GDL) to an Adult Class D driver license;
• Updated Organ Donor registration screens;
• New updated screen saver;
• Increased validity of the kiosk receipt from 20 days to 90 days;
• New Windows 10 PCs installed; and
• New 4G modems to replace old 3G modems for improved network connectivity.

The installation of the self-service kiosk enhancements will be deployed in a phased-approach with 3 locations serving as pilots beginning the first week of July. All installations are scheduled to be complete by July 31, 2019.

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