Two Local Blood Assurance Drives Set for Today (March 25)

March 25, 2024
By: Dwayne Page

Two Blood Assurance Drives are scheduled today (Monday, March 25)

The first blood drive will be Monday, March 25 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb Hospital at 520 West Main Street, Smithville in the bloodmobile followed by a DeKalb County Neighbors Helping Neighbors blood drive the same day, Monday March 25 from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. at the Smithville Senior Center at 718 South Congress Boulevard, Smithville in the bloodmobile.

For the hospital location blood drive, you may schedule an appointment at www.bloodassurance.org/dekalb hospital. You may also call Trudy Cody at 931-239-9411

For the DeKalb County Neighbors Helping Neighbors blood drive you may schedule an appointment at www.bloodassurance.org/neighbors. You may also contact Jimmy Poss concerning the blood drive at 615-464-7426.

Remember to eat a good meal, drink extra water, avoid energy drinks and bring your ID. Blood Assurance is the sole blood provider for the local hospitals and your donation is needed for an adequate supply. One donation can save three lives.

All donors’ names will be entered into a drawing to win a 55-inch TV and a soundbar during Donor Madness

March 24, 2024
By: Dwayne Page

DeKalb County’s local option sales tax collections for February, 2024 were down compared to January and slightly below February 2023’s numbers.

According to the Tennessee Department of Revenue, DeKalb County collected $138,326 in local option sales taxes in February, 2024, which was down from $222,079 in January and under collections of $138,886 in February, 2023.

Smithville’s collections for February were $359,089, a decrease from $573,752 in January but up from $328,904 in February, 2023.

Alexandria’s local option sales tax collections stood at $30,420 in February, down from $32,635 in January but an increase from $28,383 in February, 2023.

Dowelltown’s collections for February were $4,428, up slightly from $4,318 in January and a significant increase from $2,890 in February, 2023.

Collections in Liberty stood at $9,948 in February, down from $13,933 in January and below collections of $12,749 in February, 2023.

Net collections for the county and cities combined for February were $542,212, a big drop from $846,718 in January, but up from $511,814 in February, 2023.

February collections reflect activity for the previous month.

March 24, 2024
By: Dwayne Page

The county commission Monday night during its regular monthly meeting is expected to fill a vacancy on the commission from the seventh district and the person likely to be appointed is Mathias Anderson.

Anderson is the only person to step forward who has expressed an interest in the position.

During Thursday night’s committee of the whole meeting of the county commission, Anderson introduced himself and asked to be considered to serve on the commission as an appointee until the August 1, 2024 DeKalb County General Election.

“My name is Mathias Anderson and I live in District 7. I was selected on Saturday, March 16 to be on the ballot in August for the (vacant) commissioner seat for District 7. I have lived here for about 8 years and have been involved as I can be between kids sports and schools, etc. I try to help out where I can. I saw where there was an empty seat for my district and I thought this would be a good opportunity for me to help out and contribute. I work for Nissan. I am a senior analyst for the claims risk department so a lot of my job is budgeting dollars, figuring out where money is going and where it has to go and where to get the money for those expenditures. I think I would really enjoy helping out and hopefully be a benefit to everyone in the county as well,” said Anderson.

A Republican, Anderson was nominated by the DeKalb County GOP on Saturday, March 16 by caucus to be the party’s nominee in the August election to serve out the remaining two years of former commissioner Tim Reynolds’ unexpired term. Reynolds stepped down from the commission last month.