Nolensville again keeps Tigers from advancing in State Playoffs

November 14, 2020
By: Dwayne Page

Although it was a much closer game than last year, the Nolensville Knights have again denied the DeKalb County Tigers from advancing in the TSSAA Class 4A Football Playoffs.

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The Knights won Friday night’s second round playoff game over the Tigers 24-17 in Smithville. A year ago the Knights beat the Tigers 42-6 in the quarterfinals of the playoffs at Nolensville.

The season ends for the Tigers at 7-5 although one of the losses was not on the field but a COVID-19 forfeit to Cumberland County. The 2020 Tigers made history by being the first DCHS football team to win a regular season region championship and the first to host back to back state playoff football games in Smithville.

The Tigers got the first points of the game on 2 yard touchdown run by Desmond Nokes with 3:38 left in the 1st period capping a 98 yard drive. Jasper Kleparek came on for the extra point and DeKalb County led 7-0.

Nolensville answered on an 11 yard touchdown pass from quarterback Ryder Galardi to Parker Price with 11:52 left in the 2nd period. Reese Miller added the extra point and the game was tied at 7-7.

DeKalb County reclaimed the lead on a 20 yard field goal by Kleparek with 5:55 left in the 2nd period. The score was 10-7 in favor of the Tigers.

After an interception by Isaac Knowles, DC took over on offense and extended its lead on a touchdown pass from quarterback Axel Aldino to Isaac Knowles covering 47 yards for the score. Kleparek tacked on the extra point and DeKalb County held a 17-7 advantage with 3:21 left in the first half.

The Knights pulled to within 3 with 40 seconds to go before halftime on a 14 yard touchdown run by Samson Johnson. Miller converted the extra point and Nolensville cut the Tiger lead to 17-14.

Nolensville tied the game at 17-17 on a 34 yard field goal by Miller with 6 minutes left in the 3rd period and then scored the go ahead touchdown with 8:21 left in the 4th period on a 24 yard pass from Galardi to Chance Fitzgerald. Miller added the extra point and the Knights went on to win 24-17.

The Tigers threatened late in the game but Desmond Nokes was stopped 2 yards short of the goal line on a 4th down pass.

Nolensville will travel to Tullahoma next Friday night for the quarterfinals of the state playoffs. Tullahoma is unbeaten at 12-0 and ranked #2 in the state. The Wildcats eliminated Marshall County 35-7 Friday night.

November 13, 2020
By: Dwayne Page

Whether you want to research minutes of the last county commission meeting or one from as far back as 1882, you will soon be able to do it at your convenience online by visiting www.tncountyclerk.com and selecting DeKalb County to access scanned images of those documents.

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https://secure.tncountyclerk.com/minutesSearch/index.php

County Clerk James L. (Jimmy) Poss recently began the process of converting the original paper documents to digital with the help of Business Information System, a company that offers software solutions to local governments.

More than 138 years of county commission meeting minutes are currently stored in the archives of the clerk’s office and up until now they have only been available in their original paper forms, bound in books. Realizing that the county needed a better means of preserving those records, Poss reached out to BIS for help. The work is almost complete as these minutes have all been scanned, saved and are currently being uploaded to a web-based server where they will soon become available for public viewing and printing, possibly by the end of next week.

“This is something I have wanted to do for a long time and its finally getting accomplished and I am proud its being done,” said Poss.

Aaron Greer, BIS consultant, said Poss should be commended for providing this service. “Being able to search from all the books that are currently in the office up unto the present time online is something that very few of the counties in Tennessee have. It has been great to work with Jimmy. This has been something he has been pushing for a long time. It’s a great achievement for his office and the county,” said Greer.

Anyone wanting do a web-based research of the minutes for a particular issue can do a keyword search on their computer and every meeting in which that issue was discussed will appear on the screen. “You will have the ability to perform key word searches of the minutes and they will be searchable by dates, displayed in grids, images, and will be available pretty much by any kind of computer, ipad or iphone technology,” Poss said.

“If someone wants to know about a road say “Sunset Drive” for example, they can enter that road name into the search window on the computer and the software will search all of the documents that have been scanned, listing each of the documents the keyword search appears in. All of the results will then be displayed, allowing you to access every document that matches your search criteria,”.

“The searchable program was added to tncountyclerk.com on October 29, 2018. We have a number of these records currently searchable. Once you’re on the website and select “DeKalb”, near the bottom of the page you will see Minutes Search. You are able to key in a single word, road name, specific month, etc. to view these records which are available,” said Poss.

“Scanning and storing these minutes by computer makes the searchability quicker, more accessible and certainly much more secure. We are protecting these records from fire, water and or smoke damage, physical and or aging. Simultaneously, we are backing each document up in our computers as well as an off-site center. We will also continue producing and storing minute books as we scan all future minutes,” said Poss.

Anyone wanting to do their research of county commission meetings the old fashioned way will still have access to the binder style minute books which will remain in the county clerk’s office. “People are always welcome in our office to continue looking through our hard copy minute books and if you want a copy of a document we can assist you by pulling that up on the computer and printing it for you,” said Poss.

November 13, 2020
By: Dwayne Page

Students will return to the classrooms at four of the five schools in DeKalb County on Monday, November 16. The exception will be Smithville Elementary School which will remain on virtual learning through Friday, November 20.

Director of Schools Patrick Cripps announced today (Friday) that DeKalb County High School, DeKalb Middle School, DeKalb West School, and Northside Elementary School will reopen Monday, November 16.

Updated bus information will be released on Sunday, November 15.

All five schools will be closed for the Thanksgiving break November 23-27 as had been scheduled according to the 2020-21 school calendar.

In an announcement this past Monday, Director Cripps extended the virtual learning through today (Friday, November 13) due to the increased number of COVID-19 cases and quarantines among faculty and staff.

All five schools in the district have been on virtual learning since Wednesday, October 28.

“This is an ever changing situation due to the faculty and staff that have been affected. Its not students the reason we canceled school (in person) its due to the lack of faculty and staff and how that has affected the different schools. I know it is frustrating for everyone and I want our kids in school. That is our goal is to get everyone back in school but we are facing challenging times and we have some things we are trying to work through to meet the needs. There will be some limitations when we do go back. There may be bus routes that can’t be run and there may be schools that open while others remain closed. The state made clear to us in the beginning that we don’t necessarily have to shut down the whole district but there are times when we will. Each situation is different but we will get our parents the information as quickly as we can,” said Director Cripps during Thursday night’s monthly Board of Education meeting held via video conference.

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