Jimmy Womack Reappointed to DUD Board

August 27, 2018
By: Dwayne Page

Jimmy Womack has been reappointed to a new four year term on the DeKalb Utility District Board of Commissioners.

County Mayor Tim Stribling announced his appointment of Womack during Monday night’s county commission meeting.

Womack is one of three members on the board who serves DeKalb County. Each term is for four years.

By law, the DUD board must submit the names of three nominees to fill each position, listed in order of preference. During a recent meeting, the board voted to submit the names of Womack, Jimmy Herndon, and Paul Blair in that order to the DeKalb County Mayor.

The general provisions of Tennessee Code Annotated (State Law) TCA § 7-82-307 provide that the utility board members must submit three nominees, listed in order of preference, to the county mayor (where the vacancy exists). The county mayor has the authority to appoint one of the nominees to the vacant position on the board or reject all of the nominees. If the county mayor rejects all three nominees, then the board of (utility) commissioners has to submit three additional nominees to the county mayor for consideration.

The DUD Board is made up of five members, three from DeKalb County (Jimmy Womack, Joe Foutch, and Hugh Washer), one from Cannon (Roger Turney), and one from Smith County (Danny Bass). The terms are staggered.

August 27, 2018
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Fifty years after graduating from DeKalb County High School, members of the Class of 1968 gathered for their golden anniversary reunion Saturday evening to reminisce about the good old days.

David Burger traveled the farthest distance for the special event, coming all the way from Japan. Dorothy League Hayes was recognized for having been married the longest at 50 years. Among the class, Brenda Thweatt Colwell has the most grandchildren at 8. The group voted Janie Pack Bundy the least changed after 50 years and Neil Kight the most changed.

Several members of the 1968 faculty attended the event including Ann Puckett, Ina Ruth Bess, James Cantrell, Mike Braswell, W. C. Braswell, and Coach Harold Luna.

August 27, 2018
By: Dwayne Page

WJLE’s “Fearless Forecasters” are returning for another season of college pigskin prognosticating Thursday, August 30 at 4:30 p.m.

This season’s regulars are Dewain Hendrixson, Scott Brown, Chad Kirby, Jeff and Grant James, Ricky Atnip, John Pryor, Will Graham, and Darrell Gill.

The “Fearless Forecasters” pick who they believe will win in fifteen of the biggest or most interesting college football games of the week.

They also make an underdog selection each week.

The program is sponsored by Liberty State Bank, DeKalb County Ace Hardware, Middle Tennessee Natural Gas, Love-Cantrell Funeral Home, DeKalb County Insurance, Gill Automotive, and the Charles D. Atnip Realty & Auction Company.

Catch the “Fearless Forecasters” LIVE on WJLE weekly starting Thursday, August 30.

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