Noah Goebel, 2022 Grand Champion Fiddler, to perform at the Ryman Auditorium

January 25, 2023
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13-year-old Noah Goebel, Grand Champion Fiddler at the 51st Smithville Fiddlers Jamboree and Crafts Festival will be playing Saturday, January 28, 2023 at the Ryman Auditorium.

The Elkton, Kentucky resident, who also won the Junior Fiddling contest here, beat out the Senior Fiddling Champion Heather Brown Currie of Springfield in the showdown for the Berry C. Williams Memorial Award. Currie claimed the Grand Champion Fiddling Title in 1999 and 2001.

As the 2022 Grand Fiddle Off Champion, Goebel will be playing both shows- 7:00 pm and 9:30 pm on Saturday – a ‘fiddle tune’ for the Opry square dancers LIVE performance. Darrin Vincent suggested this date to Dan Rogers. It is a Bluegrass Night with Dailey & Vincent also performing.

“Noah is one very impressive young man. He is very talented, and the Jamboree Committee is so proud that he is representing us at the Ryman – The Mother Church of Country Music” , said Jamboree President Kim Luton.

In 2021, Goebel competed as a child in the James G. “Bobo” Driver Fiddlers Jamboree’s National Championship for Country Musician Beginners and won the Beginners Fiddling Title.

Noah stated “I’m honored to be playing the Opry at the Ryman this weekend. I am so grateful for the Smithville Fiddlers Jamboree, Darrin Vincent, Dan Rogers and all who made this possible. ”

For more information, visit smithvillejamboree.com or ryman.com.

January 25, 2023
By: Dwayne Page

White County proved to be too much for the DCHS Tigers and Lady Tigers to handle Tuesday night in Sparta.

The Lady Tigers lost to the Warriorettes 72 to 51 and the Tigers were handed an 84 to 45 defeat.

For the ladies, DeKalb County trailed 18 to 9 after the 1st period, 33 to 25 at halftime, 47 to 37 after the 3rd period before falling 72 to 51.

Ella VanVranken scored 26 followed by Avery Agee with 12, Madison Martin 8, and Chloe VanVranken 5.

The Tigers were behind 17 to 10 after the 1st period, 48 to 22 at halftime, and 77 to 41 after the 3rd period before suffering an 84 to 45 defeat.

Elishah Ramos scored 16, Conner Close 7, Stetson Agee 6, Alex Antoniak and Ean Jones each with 4, and Zack Birmingham, Robert Wheeler, Kaleb Spears, and Owens Snipes each with 2.

The Tigers drop to 10-11 on the season (2-6 in the district) as the Lady Tigers are now 11-11 (3-7 in district play).

DeKalb County will host Livingston Academy on Friday night, January 27. The Livingston Academy girls are 20-3, 7-0. The Wildcats (boys) are 20-2, 6-1.

January 25, 2023
By: Dwayne Page

A female prisoner at the DeKalb County Jail was recently caught with letters laced with Suboxone.

33-year-old Cassandra Renee Reed of Foster Road, McMinnville, is charged with bringing contraband into a penal institution. She is under a $20,000 bond and will make a court appearance February 2.

Sheriff Patrick Ray said that between January 12 and 19, Reed received two letters at the jail which appeared to have been soaked in a substance, believed to be the schedule III drug Suboxone, before being dried and written on. Phone calls were recorded regarding the letters, between Reed and a man discussing the need for her to obtain the letters before her being transferred to another facility. A detective from the Sheriff’s Department spoke with Reed, who admitted that the letters laced with Suboxone were sent to her by the man with whom she had spoken on the phone. Her plans were to chew on the letters to get the drug into her system. The letters were sent to the TBI Crime Lab for testing.

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