No more overflowing dumpsters!

November 17, 2022
By: Dwayne Page

No more overflowing dumpsters!

County Mayor Matt Adcock has announced the implementation of a new solid waste management plan aimed primarily at emptying compactors and dumpsters more often at the county’s garbage collection convenience sites.

Under the plan, the county has identified highest to lowest priority convenience sites in three established districts based on how often the public makes use of them. Sanitation truck drivers will now pick up garbage only from the convenience sites in their assigned district. The idea is to streamline the routes and the time it takes to run them, so drivers are able to make pickups more often especially at the priority convenience sites to keep the trash from piling up and overflowing from the dumpsters. All garbage from all the sites is taken to the county’s transfer station.

The plan calls for the truck drivers to start their day at 6 a.m. and work through 2:30 p.m. According to County Mayor Adcock, this schedule will ensure that compactors and dumpsters are empty before the convenience sites open to the public Monday through Saturday at 9 a.m. Garbage pickups from the sites will be made at least once a day and sometimes more often.

“With this plan every convenience site will get attention every single day as well as the schools,” said County Mayor Adcock. “The convenience sites are listed in order from highest priority to lowest priority. This is determined by how busy each site is. This ensures that the highest priority sites are taken care of before the convenience site opens to the public. Instead of trying to empty every dumpster in the site before moving to the next one, the driver operator will empty only the compactor and one open top dumpster before moving to the next site. Before, only a few sites got attention in one day and with some sites it was every other day or longer. Under this plan, after a driver completes the route in his district, he will circle back to the highest priority sites and others if time permits to again unload as many open top dumpsters as possible until his shift is over,” said County Mayor Adcock.

Four convenience sites under the plan make up district 1 including Keltonburg, Blue Springs, Belk, and the Highway 56 or Shiny Rock location which is designated the highest priority pickup site in that district.

The plan’s district 2 includes Alexandria, Liberty, Temperance Hall, and Wolf Creek locations with Snow Hill being the highest priority site.

District 3 sites are Midway, the landfill at Johnson’s Chapel, Silver Point, and Village Market which is the highest priority location

One driver is assigned to pick up garbage at identified auxiliary sites which includes all schools, Austin Bottom, customer cans, and the jail among others.

This is the second sanitation policy change within the past month.

Effective October 30, County Mayor Adcock announced that all 12 DeKalb County Garbage Collection Convenience sites are to be closed to the public on Sundays but open Mondays through Saturdays from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m.

Adcock said he made this decision to give the 24 part time employees who man the convenience sites Sundays off and to bring more uniformity to the operating hours during the week. Each of the employees are now scheduled to work 27 hours per week.

November 17, 2022
By: Dwayne Page

The DCHS Tigers and Lady Tigers will compete in the Gordonsville High School Hall of Fame Basketball day Saturday, November 19th.

The day’s schedule of games is as follows:
11:00 a.m. (Girls) East Robertson vs Gordonsville
12:30 p.m. (Boys) East Robertson vs DeKalb County- (WJLE to Broadcast LIVE)
2:00 p.m. (Girls) East Robertson vs DeKalb County- (WJLE to Broadcast LIVE)
3:30 p.m. (Boys) Gordonsville vs DeKalb County
5:00 p.m. (Girls) Gordonsville vs DeKalb County

WJLE will be unable to broadcast LIVE the last two games between DeKalb County and Gordonsville at 3:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. due to a conflict with the Tennessee-South Carolina Football game broadcast which begins with the Big Orange Countdown at 4 p.m. followed by the kick-off at 6 p.m. on WJLE and the VOL Network.

November 17, 2022
By: Dwayne Page

Ricky Atnip is still out front as the leader among WJLE’s Fearless Forecasters picking college football winners.

Atnip has the best overall record at 124-41 followed by Jared Davis at 119-46, Grant James 118-47, John Pryor 113-52, Scott Brown 111-54, Darrell Gill 109-56, Scott Goodwin 108-57, and Chad Kirby 107-58.

For the week, John Pryor had the best record at 12-3 followed by Ricky Atnip 11-4, Grant James and Scott Goodwin each at 10-5, Jared Davis and Chad Kirby each at 9-6, and Darrell Gill and Scott Brown each at 8-7.

Three Fearless Forecasters hit their underdog picks last week. Ricky Atnip expanded his overall lead adding 6.5 points to his total with Purdue’s 31-24 win over Illinois. Jared Davis picked up 8 points as West Virginia defeated Oklahoma 23-20 and Scott Goodwin got 7 points with TCU’s 17-10 victory over Texas.
Overall, Ricky Atnip now leads in underdog points with 26.5 followed by Jared Davis with 23.5, Scott Goodwin 21.5, Darrell Gill 17.5, Scott Brown and John Pryor each with 17, and Grant James with 11.

Today (Thursday) the Forecasters will be picking winners in the following games:
Oklahoma State at Oklahoma, USC at UCLA, Utah at Oregon, Syracuse at Wake Forest, TCU at Baylor, Texas at Kansas, SMU at Tulane, Iowa at Minnesota, Duke at Pittsburgh, Western Kentucky at Auburn, N.C. State at Louisville, Ole Miss at Arkansas, Florida at Vanderbilt, Tennessee at South Carolina, and in the NFL the Tennessee Titans at the Green Bay Packers.

Catch the Fearless Forecasters on WJLE today (Thursday) at 4:30 p.m. on AM 1480/FM 101.7 and LIVE streaming at www.wjle.com.

The program is sponsored by the Charles D. Atnip Realty and Auction Company, Middle Tennessee Natural Gas, FirstBank, DeKalb County Insurance, Gill Automotive, Love-Cantrell Funeral Home, Davis Auto Body, and Domino’s Pizza.

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