City Hires New Building Inspector

June 27, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

The City of Smithville will have a new building inspector consultant starting Monday, July 1.

During Tuesday’s special meeting, the aldermen voted to employ Lewis Bryant of Cookeville to succeed Tim Staley, who is stepping down as building inspector.

Unlike Staley, Bryant will not draw a salary. The city will pay him a commission of 65% from funds collected through issuance of building related permits. Bryant, a certified building codes inspector, also works in a similar role for the City of Algood.

June 27, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

A Smithville man was airlifted after a crash Wednesday night on Highway 70 near Dowelltown.

Trooper Chris Delong of the Tennessee Highway Patrol said 61 year old Mark Wallace was driving west in a 2002 Toyota 4 door passenger car when the vehicle went off the right side of the road in a curve and crashed. The car rolled over before coming to rest upright facing east.

Wallace was treated at the scene by DeKalb EMS and taken to a helicopter landing zone where he was airlifted to Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga.

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

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