Former DCHS Cafeteria Employee Charged with Theft

January 24, 2023
By: Dwayne Page

A former cafeteria employee at DeKalb County High School has been charged with theft for allegedly stealing money from the wallet of a fellow worker there.

60-year-old Teena Cone Mooney of Rolling Acres Road, Smithville is under a $1,000 bond for theft of property under $1,000 and she will appear in General Sessions Court on February 2.

Sheriff Patrick Ray said that on January 12 Mooney, a cook, entered the DCHS cafeteria locker room, accessed a locker belonging to a fellow employee, and took a wallet from the victim’s purse. Mooney then left the locker room out of the surveillance camera view and removed $500 in cash from the wallet before placing the wallet back inside the locker.

Mooney has been terminated from her job.

January 24, 2023
By: Dwayne Page

State lawmakers have been given their committee assignments by the leadership for the 2023-24 legislative sessions.

Newly elected State Representative Michael Hale of DeKalb County has been assigned to the Commerce Committee, the Local Government Committee, Business & Utilities Subcommittee, and the Cities and Counties Subcommittee.

Meanwhile, State Senator Janice Bowling of Coffee County, who now represents DeKalb County, has been named the 2nd Vice-Chairperson of the Government Operations Committee and is a member of the Transportation & Safety Committee and the Energy, Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee.

Both lawmakers have filed bills “for introduction” and those can be found at the links below

Lists of bills filed by Hale can be found here— https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/sponsorlist/default.aspx?ID=H400&ga=113

List of bills filed by Bowling can be found here—https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/sponsorlist/default.aspx?ID=S160&ga=113

January 23, 2023
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Center Hill Lake Resource Management Office is holding a public workshop for its shoreline management plan update 5-8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31 at the DeKalb County Community Complex in Smithville.

The purpose of this workshop is to provide stakeholders and the public with an opportunity to propose improvements to the current 2016 Shoreline Management Plan.

Center Hill Resource Management Biologist Gary Bruce said that due to the increased development surrounding Center Hill Lake, along with the high demand for recreational opportunities, the frequency of unauthorized uses of public property is increasing and effective implementation of the shoreline management plan is more important now than ever before.

Proposed updates to the plan include changes to improved access for existing grandfathered docks, along with other minor changes that clarify the intent and purpose of the shoreline management plan.

A draft copy of the Shoreline Management Plan is posted on the Center Hill Lake website at https://www.lrn.usace.army.mil/Locations/Lakes/Center-Hill-Lake/ and copies are being made available for review at the workshop.

Written comments and requests are accepted at the workshops or can be mailed to the Center Hill Lake Resource Manager’s Office at 158 Resource Lane, Lancaster, TN 38569. All mailed comments and requests must be received by the Resource Manager no later than Wednesday, March 1, 2023, to be considered.

The DeKalb County Community Complex is located at 712 S. Congress Blvd., in Smithville, Tennessee. Call the Center Hill Lake Resource Manager’s Office at 931-858-3125 for more information about the public workshop and shoreline management plan update.

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