Longtime Clerk and Master Debra Malone Reappointed to New Term

October 20, 2023
By: Dwayne Page

Longtime DeKalb County Chancery Court Clerk and Master Debra Malone has been reappointed to a new six year term by Chancellor Ronald Thurman. The new term began October 1.

Malone has served as Clerk and Master for 24 years since 1999. She took over from her predecessor and boss John Robert Nixon, who retired that year as Clerk and Master. She was appointed to the position at that time by former Chancellor Vernon Neal. Prior to that Malone had served for nine years as Nixon’s deputy clerk. Nixon passed away in 2018.

Malone and her husband Miles have one son and daughter-in-law Granger and Kristen Malone.

“I appreciate Chancellor Thurman reappointing me to this position and I’ll continue to do my job to the best of my ability. I do thank God for helping me and giving me this opportunity to serve DeKalb County, my home county. God has blessed and helped me through each and every day of my time here,” said Malone.

Amanda Vaughn serves as Malone’s deputy clerk.

October 20, 2023
By: Dwayne Page

DeKalb County has been recognized by the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury for having adopted its 2023-24 budget prior to the start of the fiscal year.

During Thursday night’s committee of the whole meeting of the county commission, County Mayor Matt Adcock said the county has received a budget certificate recognizing local officials for this achievement.

“That is a big deal for this county commission. Congratulations. Good job. I have talked to some other people, and they can’t remember DeKalb County ever passing a budget before the next fiscal year. It is usually done in July. This year it was done in June,” said County Mayor Adcock.

State law requires every county, municipality, and utility district in Tennessee to adopt an annual budget.

According to the state comptroller, to be effective, a budget should be adopted prior to the beginning of the fiscal year. The budget should also be based on reliable estimates, structurally balanced, provide for cash liquidity, allow for adequate reserves, monitored throughout the year, and amended as necessary.

Local officials that adopt budgets meeting the following specific criteria are awarded an annual certificate from the Comptroller of the Treasury:

The budget was adopted on or before the fiscal year end;

The budget was filed with the state comptroller’s office within 15 days of adoption;

No issues of concern were raised during the comptroller’s review of the budget; and

The local government is not currently under the oversight of the Tennessee Board of Utility Regulation.

County Mayor Adcock read the recognition letter from the State Comptroller’s Office to the county commission.

“This letter acknowledges and commends the county commission on their timely adoption of a balanced budget for DeKalb County’s 2024 fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023. The review of the county’s budget was completed by the comptroller’s division of local government finance and resulted in a standard approval indicating the county’s commitment to operate with a sound financial plan”.

“State law requires that every governmental entity in Tennessee adopt an annual budget. The county commission adopted the 2024 fiscal year budget prior to the beginning of the fiscal year. Our review of the budget reflected that the budget was passed on reliable estimates, structurally balanced, provided for cash liquidity, allowed for adequate reserves, and was monitored throughout the year and amended as necessary”.

“The budget also met specific criteria which qualified DeKalb County for an annual budget certificate. The budget was adopted on or before the beginning of the fiscal year and filed within our office (state comptroller) within 15 days of adoption. Further, there were no issues of concern raised during our review of the budget”.

“We congratulate the governing body on your outstanding work and challenge the county commission to continue its strong budgetary oversight and control. We look forward to the same level of excellence for future budget submissions”.

October 20, 2023
By: Dwayne Page

The DeKalb County High School Tigers, coming off a bye week, will be back in action tonight at White County and the stakes couldn’t be higher with a state playoff bid on the line for both of these teams.

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The Tigers enter the game at 4-4 overall and 2-2 in Class 4A Region 4. White County is also 4-4 with a 1-3 Region record. A win for the Tigers and they are in the playoffs in two weeks at least as the 4th place team from Region 4.

Two weeks ago DeKalb County snapped a two-game losing skid with a senior night win over visiting Cumberland County 42-10.

“I was really proud of the team against Cumberland County,” said Tiger Coach Steve Trapp. “We needed a game like that to come out and do what we were supposed to do. There was a lot of good execution and a lot of other good things, offensively, defensively and on special teams. Even so there were still some moments where it got a little sloppy and ugly. I think we backed up some bad offensive play with a bad defensive situation but that comes down to the offense putting the defense in a short field but I really liked how our guys came out after halftime and responded. They cleaned things up and got a victory for us,” said Coach Trapp.

In order for the Tigers to punch their ticket to the play-offs they will have to get by the White County Warriors tonight and their talented junior quarterback Trip Pinion.

“Pinion is super athletic,” said Coach Trapp. “He has a lot of experience as far as being a starter at White County and the offense they run is tailored around him with a lot of the option read game type stuff. Everybody for us is going to have to be very disciplined tackling the football no matter who has it but especially Pinion. That is definitely critical and I have been preaching all week while on defense to not assume that your teammate has the tackle made. We have to get a lot of hats to the football. We must have our run fits right and keep our eyeballs right. If we get loose with our eyeballs then we are going to be looking at something we shouldn’t be and he (Pinion) will pop it out the back door. He is very elusive. He can start on one side of the field and take it all the way back to the other and all the running around that he does sets up their passing game. Pinion has 1,100 more rushing yards than passing yards but we still have to make sure we are in tune with what they can potentially do there,” added Coach Trapp.

WJLE’s Pre-Game shows begin with “Coach to Coach” at 5 p.m. featuring former UT assistant coach Doug Matthews with Tennessee Titans Radio Broadcaster Dave McGinnis and broadcaster Larry Stone talking Tennessee and SEC football.

“Coach to Coach” is followed by “Murphy’s Matchups at 6 p.m. A look at Tennessee High School Football from Murphy Fair with commentary on games and coaches’ interviews.

Following Murphy’s Matchups will be WJLE’s Tiger Talk program featuring host John Pryor interviewing Coach Steve Trapp and Tiger football players Briz Trapp, Marquez Chalfant, and Jonathan Hernandez.

The game will kick off at 7 p.m. and WJLE will have LIVE coverage with Luke Willoughby on AM 1480/FM 101.7 and on the LIVE stream at www.wjle.com.

Here’s how the Region race is taking shape after eight weeks into the season. The top four teams at the end of the year earn a state play-off berth.

Upperman: 8-0: Overall, 4-0-Region

Stone Memorial: 6-2 Overall, 4-0 Region

Macon County: 7-1 Overall, 4-1 Region

DeKalb County: 4-4 Overall, 2-2 Region

White County: 4-4, 1-3 Region

Livingston Academy:2-6 Overall, 0-4 Region

Cumberland County: 2-6 Overall, 0-5 Region

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