Monday night basketball!

January 27, 2025
By: Dwayne Page

Monday night basketball!

The DCHS basketball teams will step outside the district as they travel to McMinnville tonight (Monday, January 27) to take on Warren County. The girls game tips off at 6 p.m. followed by the boys game. WJLE will have LIVE coverage of both.

DeKalb County will be looking to bounce back from losses at Stone Memorial Friday night, January 24. The Lady Tigers were defeated 70 to 56 and the Tigers fell to the Panthers 70 to 45.

In the girls game, DC trailed 17 to 15 after the 1st period, 31 to 28 at halftime, and 50 to 39 after the 3rd period before losing 70 to 56.

Chloe VanVranken scored 18, Allie Melton 15, Camille Barton 9, Brooklyn Fuson 8, and Avery Agee 6.

The Tigers found themselves behind 20 to 6 after the 1st period of the boys game. DC trailed 49 to 18 by halftime and were behind 74 to 35 after the 3rd period before losing to the Panthers 79 to 45.

Dallas Kirby scored 10, Elliot Barnes 9, Jon Hendrix 6, Seth Fuson, Chase Young, and Logan Duke each with 5, David Wheeler 3, and Jordan Parker 2.

The Lady Tigers drop to 5-17 and the Tigers are 8-14. Both teams are 0-5 in the district.

January 27, 2025
By: Dwayne Page

The county needs a school traffic officer to fill a vacancy.

Through a longstanding agreement, the City of Smithville, DeKalb County Government, and the DeKalb School District, share in the annual cost of paying two traffic control officers in the school zones mornings and afternoons (during the school year) at Northside Elementary School and at DeKalb Middle School/DCHS. The positions pay $20 per hour. The county makes the hires.

According to County Mayor Matt Adcock, the schedule is approximately an hour and half in the morning and an hour and a half in the afternoon during school traffic hours. It is approximately 25 hours every two weeks. Payment is received bi-weekly. “The county is looking to fill the position immediately. If someone is not hired we will have one school without an officer,” said County Mayor Adcock.

January 26, 2025
By: Dwayne Page

The National Weather Service Monday night will recognize DeKalb County as being “StormReady” during the monthly county commission meeting.

A representative from the National Weather Service will present County Mayor Matt Adcock and the county commission with a certificate officially confirming this designation.

“DeKalb County has been working through a process with 911 and EMA to get DeKalb County storm ready certified,” said DeKalb Emergency Management Agency Director Charlie Parker. “We have met all the requirements. The National Weather Service is coming Monday night to present a certificate of recognition that we have checked all the boxes to become a storm ready county. It shows we are working to protect citizens through our local emergency planning committee. We also have some of our factories, businesses, schools, and the hospital on board with this also to do more storm preparedness,” said Parker.

For a county, business, building, or organization to be designated “StormReady” they must have provided emergency managers with clear-cut guidelines on how to improve their hazardous weather operations. To be officially StormReady, a community must:

•Establish a 24-hour warning point and emergency operations center
•Have more than one way to receive severe weather warnings and forecasts and to alert the public
•Create a system that monitors weather conditions locally
•Promote the importance of public readiness through community seminars
•Develop a formal hazardous weather plan, which includes training severe weather spotters and holding emergency exercises.

The county commission will meet tonight (Monday) at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the county complex.

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