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District Tournament Puts Lady Tigers at Upperman Tuesday and Tigers at Cumberland County Wednesday
February 14, 2022
By: Dwayne Page
The DeKalb County High School Lady Tigers will play their first game of the District 7-3A basketball tournament at Upperman Tuesday night, February 15. The game starts at 6 p.m. and WJLE will have LIVE coverage.
The Lady Tigers (15-13, 4-8) are the 5th seed in the tournament and Upperman (22-5, 8-4) is the 4th seed.
The two teams just met last Friday night at Baxter on the final evening of the regular season with Upperman winning 54 to 24. In the previous meeting on January 18 in Smithville, the Lady Tigers defeated Upperman 42 to 40.
In the game Friday night, Upperman led 10 to 4 after the 1st period, 29 to 11 at halftime, and 40 to 18 after the 3rd period before claiming a 54 to 24 victory.
Avery Agee scored 6 for the Lady Tigers followed by Ella Van Vranken with 4, Kadee Ferrell and Dare Collins each with 3 and Madison Martin, Xharia Lyons, and Darrah Ramsey and Tess Barton each with 2 points.
The Tigers will travel to Cumberland County for their first district tournament game on Wednesday night, February 16. The game starts at 6 p.m. and WJLE will have LIVE coverage.
The Tigers (13-13, 5-7) are the 6th seed and Cumberland County (13-13, 7-5) is the 3rd seed.
In the previous meetings this season, the Tigers defeated the Jets 71 to 66 in Smithville on February 8 but lost at Crossville 76 to 70 on January 14.
In the regular season finale at Upperman Friday night, the Tigers were beaten 50-49.
The Tigers trailed 18 to 12 after the 1st period but took a 28 to 27 lead by halftime. The Tigers fell behind 45 to 37 by the end of the 3rd period and lost 50 to 49.
Conner Close scored 22, Elishah Ramos 14, Isaac Knowles and Brayden Antoniak each with 4, Stetson Agee 3 and Jordan Young 2.
Board Authorizes ESSER Funding to Heat and Cool Four School Gymnasiums
February 14, 2022
By: Dwayne Page
The DeKalb County Board of Education will be spending funds to install HVAC heating and cooling systems in four of the district’s gymnasiums.
During its regular monthly meeting Thursday night, the school board authorized an additional $650,000 from ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) funds to heat and cool the DCHS, DeKalb Middle School, Northside Elementary, and DeKalb West School gymnasiums. The Smithville Elementary School gym is not included because the board still plans to replace SES with a new school.
“We have our bid in to put heating and air in four gyms. When we first started this project, we put over 20 air conditioners through the system on our school buildings and we estimated this would cost us about $1.2 million with the gym renovations but due to inflation we will have to move up to $650,000 to get that completed for the gyms. The bid has been awarded and the state has approved for us to move this ESSER money with approval from the board,” said Director Cripps.
It may be 2023 before all the HVAC systems for the gyms are installed.
Congress set aside approximately $13.2 billion of the $30.75 billion allotted to the Education Stabilization Fund through the Coronavirus Aid Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act for the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER Fund). Signed into law on March 27, 2020, the Department awarded these grants to State educational agencies (SEAs) for the purpose of providing local educational agencies (LEAs), including charter schools that are LEAs, with emergency relief funds to address the impact that COVID-19 has had, and continues to have, on elementary and secondary schools across the Nation. ESSER Fund awards to SEAs are in the same proportion as each State received funds under Part A of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended, in fiscal year 2019.
Candidate Qualifying Deadline Approaching for May Primaries and August County General Election
February 13, 2022
By: Dwayne Page
Thursday, February 17 is the qualifying deadline for candidates to get in the race for the May 3 DeKalb County Democratic and Republican Primaries or the August 4 DeKalb County General Election as an Independent.
All 19 persons who had obtained petitions to run for the 8 county wide public offices this year have now filed them with the election commission. The last was Bradley Hendrix who filed his petition Monday for County Mayor in the DeKalb GOP Primary on May 3.
Only 3 of the 32 people who have picked up petitions to run for the county commission have not yet filed them with the election commission including Joshua Chapman in the May 3 GOP Primary in District 3, Michael Paul Atnip in the May 3 Democratic Primary in District 6, and Trevin Merriman in the May 3 GOP Primary in District 7.
Three of the 9 Board of Education candidates have also not yet filed their petitions with the election commission including Matthew J. Quarles in the May 3 GOP Primary in District 2, Jim Beshearse (Incumbent) in the May 3 GOP Primary in District 3, and Eric R. Ervin in the May 3 GOP Primary in District 4.
Offices on the May 3 Democratic and Republican primary ballots include: County Mayor; Road Supervisor; Sheriff, General Sessions Judge; Circuit Court Clerk; County Clerk; Trustee; Register of Deeds; County Commissioner in all seven (7) districts (2 can be nominated per district); School Board members in districts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7; Constable in District 4 to fill a vacancy; Circuit Court Judge Part I and Part II (13th Judicial District); Chancellor (13th Judicial District); Criminal Court Judge Part I and Part II (13th Judicial District); District Attorney General (13th Judicial District); and Public Defender (13th Judicial District). While the above offices will appear on May primary ballots, candidates also have the option to run as Independent candidates who will not appear on the ballot until August. However, the same qualifying deadlines apply.
Petitions must be returned by Noon February 17th.
Winners of the May primaries will square off against each other in the August DeKalb County General Election along with any properly qualified independent candidates.
The local election office is open Monday-Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and is located on the first floor of the DeKalb County Courthouse.
The entire list of candidates for either the May primaries or the August General Election is as follows:
(Click links below to view updates on other 2022 races)
County Commission and School Board
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