Tigers and Ladies Stung by Bees

January 15, 2020
By: Dwayne Page

The DCHS basketball teams were stung by the Upperman Bees and Ladies at Baxter Tuesday night.

The Lady Tigers lost 52 to 35 while the Tigers were beaten 89 to 33.

(Click link below to hear WJLE’s Tiger Talk program for January 14 featuring Coaches John Sanders and Danny Fish and players Alan Munoz and Mya Ruch)

Tiger Talk January 14

In the girls game, DC trailed 14 to 13 after the 1st period, 26 to 19 at halftime, and 44 to 29 after the 3rd period before falling 52 to 35.

Megan Cantrell scored 15. Mya Ruch 6. Emme Colwell 4. Megan Walker and Kadee Ferrell each with 3 and Summer Crook and Gracie Griffin each scored 2.

The Tigers were shutout 21 to 0 after the 1st period and trailed 50 to 9 at halftime, and 68 to 20 after the 3rd before losing 89 to 33.

Zachary Birmingham scored 9. Evan Jones and Dallas Cook each with 4. Lucas Hale and Luke Jenkins each with 3 and Isaac Brown, Ean Jones, Elisha Ramos, Jordon Young, and Nathaniel Crook each with 2 points.

The Tigers have a record of 4-12 (1-4 in the district) while the Lady Tigers are now 9-8 and (2-3 in the district).

The remainder of the 2020 schedule is as follows:

Friday, January 17: Macon County*-Home 6 p.m.
Saturday, January 18: Red Boiling Springs- Away 6 p.m.
Tuesday, January 21: Smith County*-Home 6 p.m.
Friday, January 24: York Institute*-Away 6 p.m.
Monday, January 27: Warren County-Away 6 p.m.
Tuesday, January 28: Livingston Academy*-Away 6 p.m.
Friday, January 31: Watertown*-Home 6 p.m.
Tuesday, February 4: Cannon County- Away 6 p.m.
Friday, February 7: Upperman- Home 6 p.m..
Tuesday, February 11: Macon County*-Away 6 p.m.
Thursday, February 13: Smith County*-Away 6 p.m.

January 15, 2020
By: Dwayne Page

“Huntington” is the WJLE/DeKalb Animal Shelter featured “Pet of the Week”

“Huntington is a seven month old cat and he loves other cats. He also loves people especially children. Huntington is up to date on all his vaccinations and will be neutered before being adopted. His adoption fee is $75.00,” said Shelter employee Emmaly Bennett

Emmaly Bennett with Huntington from dwayne page on Vimeo.

Stop by the animal shelter, call 615-597-3647 (DOGS), or visit facebook. The shelter is currently open on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 12-4 p.m. and Saturday from 10 to 12 noon. Closed Wednesday.

Located at 186 Transfer Station Road behind Tenneco Automotive.

January 15, 2020
By: Dwayne Page

The Deputy Director of the Tennessee Corrections Institute Monday night met for the first time with an ad hoc jail committee of the county commission to start the process of making recommendations for addressing deficiencies at the DeKalb County Jail and Annex.

Bob Bass will work with the committee to establish a vision and plan of action regarding short and long term solutions to recommend to the full county commission.

Members of the jail committee, appointed last month by County Mayor Tim Stribling, are county commissioners Scott Little, Beth Pafford, Bobby Johnson, Sabrina Farler, Anita Puckett, and Matt Adcock. Criminal Court Judge Gary McKenzie, Assistant District Attorney General Greg Strong, Sheriff Patrick Ray and Chief Deputy Robert Patrick also serve on the committee and were at the meeting Monday night.

Several findings were identified during a state inspection of the jail on August 22 and while a follow-up inspection on October 4 revealed some of the issues had been addressed, others remain which will require a longer term fix. Although many of these same deficiencies have existed for years, both the jail and annex have consistently passed annual state inspections until this year.
While the jail and annex (certified for 102 beds) are not currently overcrowded at 83 inmates a major concern is that the facilities do not meet the state square footage per inmate space requirements. Another problem is the age of the buildings. The original jail was built in 1959 and lacks many state required essentials such as natural lighting and a sprinkler system among others. The annex was added in 2001 and has issues of its own.

The jail and annex have been re-certified by the state for another year but to qualify the county had to request a partnership with TCI and the County Technical Advisory Service (CTAS) to show that it plans to make “measurable” progress over a period of time in upgrading the facilities in order to maintain jail certification going forward.

“You (county) are inspected once a year. You don’t know we (TCI) are coming. That’s the law. It can’t be announced and we check over 430 standards to see if you are in compliance. Those components exist from inmate housing, medical, to disciplinary among others. If you are overcrowded or cannot meet the standards we can come back in 60 days to see if you can fix those things. If you can’t you can file a plan of action and that is where you are at right now,” said Bass.

Maintaining jail certification is important, according to Bass, especially in the event of a federal lawsuit.

“If you (county) are sued and get certified we (TCI) go into court with you and tell the federal judge why you are meeting the standards for certification. But if you are not meeting the standards, we are probably going to be on the plaintiff’s side,” Bass told the committee.

Bass said while the problems at the jail and annex cannot be fixed overnight the county is on the right track in showing the state a good faith effort in trying to address them.

“Your job as a steering or ad hoc committee is to let the jail experts come in and tell you what is wrong with the jail and make suggestions to upgrade and fix them and let you go in front of the full county commission and make recommendations. You have some real serious physical plant problems at the jail which may require you to have to throw a little money at but let’s see what we can do. What I try to do is look at things we can fix without spending a lot of taxpayer dollars,” he said.

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