(UPDATE) Rick Lee Has Been Found After Going Missing for Several Hours Wednesday

May 29, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

72 year Rick Lee has been found after having been missing for several hours today (Wednesday).

According to Sheriff Patrick Ray, Lee was found off Tucker Ridge Road about two miles from I-40 in Putnam County where he had a wreck in his truck. Lee’s vehicle had left the road and plunged down an embankment out of view of passing motorists during daylight. However before 10 p.m. a passerby saw a glow from the truck’s lights and discovered the wreck. Lee was with the truck and though injured was alert and talking.

The search for Lee began shortly after 2:30 p.m. when he called a friend from his cell phone reporting that he had been in a wreck but that he didn’t know where he was and that it would take a helicopter search to find him because he was in the woods. No one had heard from Lee since and efforts to reach him by cell phone were unsuccessful.

Lee’s friend reported his call to 911 and a search began in the general area north of Hurricane Bridge along Highway 56 where Lee’s cell phone pinged.

The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department led the search for Lee with help from the Smithville-DeKalb County Rescue Squad, Tennessee Highway Patrol, and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

May 29, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

DeKalb County will soon be getting a new Dollar General Store.

The site, currently under development, is located on Highway 56 south near Magness Road. It is reportedly scheduled to open June 13. It will become the fifth Dollar General Store in DeKalb County. The company has applied for an “off” premises permit to sell beer at the new location. The county beer board will consider the application June 10 at 7 p.m. at the courthouse.

Dollar General Corp. is a U.S. chain of variety stores headquartered in Goodlettsville, Tennessee.

The stores were founded in 1939 by Cal Turner in Scottsville, Kentucky as J.L. Turner & Son, Inc. In 1968, the business changed its name to Dollar General Corporation. In 2007, the company was acquired by the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), which took the company public in 2009.

Dollar General offers both name brand and generic merchandise — including off-brand goods and closeouts of name-brand items — in the same store, often on the same shelf. Although it has the word “dollar” in the name, Dollar General is not a dollar store. Most of its products are priced at more than $1.00. However, goods are usually sold at set price points of penny items and up to the range of 50 to 60 dollars, not counting phone cards and loadable store gift cards.

Dollar General often serves communities that are too small for Wal-Marts (although many locations are in relatively close driving distance to a Wal-Mart store). It competes in the dollar store format with national chains Family Dollar and Dollar Tree, regional chains such as Fred’s in the southeast, and numerous independently owned stores.

Since the turn of the century, Dollar General has also experimented with stores that carry a greater selection of grocery items. These stores (similar to the Wal-Mart Supercenter, but much smaller) operate under the name “Dollar General Market”.

May 29, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

Children and caregivers are invited to gather at Edgar Evins State Park for a party on Saturday, June 1 for a National Trails Day Ribbon Cutting on a new book for the ½ mile Hillside Storybook Trail.

This free event to be held from 10 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. will include party favors, craft making for the children sponsored by the public libraries of DeKalb, Putnam, Smith, Cannon and the Cookeville Children’s Museum and Smithville Girl Scout Troop 3094.

Bob Tarter of Animology (formerly NHECM) will present an assortment of wild animals at 11:30 A.M.

(Last Year’s Ribbon Cutting)

The book this year will be Anybody Home?, by Marianne Berkes and illustrated by Rebeccca Dickinson. It is about Polly Possum looking for a home among the forest creatures where she can raise her expected babies.

Hotdogs, chips, lemonade and cake will be served about 12:30 P.M. The trail has large color reproductions of pages from the book on signs that are mounted at child height about every 60 yards along the trail. There will be guided and unguided hikes on the trail after the ribbon is cut . (It is on a hillside so expect some mild elevation changes.) Everything will be free unless purchased from a vendor or the on-site gift store where the book will be available.

Saturday’s Schedule:

10 A.M. – SIGN GUEST BOOK … Kids get possum ears to wear and take home (Made by GS Troop 3094)

10:30 A.M. – RIBBON CUTTING ON HILLSIDE STORYBOOK TRAIL WITH MISS TEEN BEAUTY SUPREME – IVY TRAVIS.

10:45 A.M.- OPEN TRAIL FOR ANYONE BUT THERE WILL BE GUIDES AVAILABLE A BIT LATER FOR ANYONE WHO NEEDS HELP READING THE STORY SIGNS ALONG THE TRAIL OR HELPING KEEP KIDS TOGETHER – If you need a guide let Anna Bertram know so she can find one for you.

10:45 A.M. – 1:30 P.M. – CRAFTS AND ACTIVITIES FOR THE KIDS PRESENTED BY THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES FOR CANNON, DEKALB, PUTNAM AND SMITH COUNTIES … ALSO THE COOKEVILLE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM AND SMITHVILLE GIRL SCOUT TROOP 3094 (Under the shade awnings)

10:45 A.M. – Ranger Lee Chadwell will present birds and an opossum or two

For more information and pictures of last year go to www.foeesp.com

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