The Smithville-DeKalb County Chamber of Commerce and the DeKalb County Mayor’s office would like to invite residents across the county to participate in the DeKalb County Clean Up on Saturday, May 5th. The DeKalb Clean Up event will be held in conjunction with the Keep America Beautiful initiative going on across the country.

County Mayor Tim Stribling says, “We invite people to come out and help clean up around our communities and highways. Folks are welcome to pick up litter at places of their choice, or we will be glad to assign a safe place for you.”

Suzanne Williams, Executive Director of the Chamber of Commerce, would like to remind everyone that DeKalb County’s peak tourism season is about to begin, so now is a great time to start getting things spruced up for our coming visitors. According to Williams, “I think we are all aware of the value and importance of beautification in our communities to attract newcomers and tourists to our area and to maintain a stable and growing economy.”

To get a head start on clean up, dumpsters will be set up at highly visible and convenient locations a few days prior to the main event. Dumpster locations will be at the Dowelltown Community Center, Liberty Community Center, Alexandria City Parking Lot (behind square), and the County Complex parking lot.

DeKalb Clean Up volunteers are asked to stop by the DeKalb County Complex on May 5th between 9 AM and 10 AM to sign-in and pick up the provided trash bags, rubber gloves, and bottles of water. We will be taking a group picture at 9:30 AM for the media if you like to participate in that.

For early sign-up, you can stop by the Chamber, located in the Courthouse, Room 201, anytime during regular office hours by May 4th to pick up supplies. Or if stopping by is not convenient, call the Chamber office at 615-597-4163 to be counted as a DeKalb Clean Up volunteer — just give your name and the general area where you will be working. Whether you’re beautifying your street, a highway, a park, ball field, a stream, or your own home, what a difference we can make through working together to make our communities safer, healthier and more livable!

Four candidates for county wide offices ran unopposed in Tuesday’s DeKalb County Democratic Primary and two of them will not have an opponent in the General Election on August 2.

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County Clerk James L. (Jimmy) Poss led the ticket with 2,060 votes Tuesday and will be re-elected to a second term without opposition in August.

Register of Deeds Jeff McMillen received 2,017 complimentary votes Tuesday and will be unopposed in August enroute to his 9th term.

Michael Agee ran unopposed Tuesday for the Democratic nomination for Sheriff and received 1,182 votes. He will try to unseat Republican Incumbent Sheriff Patrick Ray in August. Ray is seeking his 4th term.

Jimmy Sprague is looking to become the next Road Supervisor. He ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination Tuesday with 1,933 votes. He will face Republican challenger Danny Hale in August. Incumbent Republican Road Supervisor Butch Agee is not seeking re-election this year.

A total of 2,514 people voted in the Primary including 1,293 on election day and 1,221 during early voting/absentee.