DCHS Planning Special Needs Prom

March 23, 2023
By: Dwayne Page

DeKalb County High School is making plans for this year’s “Blast from the Past” special needs prom to be hosted by the DCHS Service Society May 5th.

Sponsors are needed to help support the event

“We need sponsors for our special needs prom. The money we raise will be used to feed the students a full meal, buy plates and utensils, buy each honored guest a crown or tiara, and decorate the cafeteria where the prom will be held,” said Sara Young, Mathematics Instructor and Service Society Sponsor.

For more information contact Sara Young at sarayoung@dekalbschools.net or Amee Cantrell at ameecantrell@dekalbschools.net. Checks may be made to the DCHS Service Society

March 23, 2023
By: Dwayne Page

RiverWatch Golf Club has a new owner and will soon have a new name!

Steve Smith, owner of Tootsies Orchid Lounge in Nashville, Sligo Marina, and Fishlipz Resort at Pates Ford Marina in Smithville has purchased the Golf Course which is to be renamed “Honky Tonk National Golf Club”, according to a post on the RiverWatch Golf Club Facebook page.

“Due to this change in ownership,” said RiverWatch, “we will be closed for improvements until May. Starting May 1, tee times will be open to the public for 90 days. On Aug. 1 we will become a private membership club.”

Riverwatch is an 18-hole championship golf course designed by Peter Jacobsen and course architect Jim Hardy.

March 22, 2023
By: Dwayne Page

A 22-year-old man charged with aggravated assault and bringing drugs into the jail in 2022 has been sentenced in DeKalb County Criminal Court.

Caleb Ryan Warrick of Lebanon appeared before Judge Wesley Bray on Tuesday, March 21 and entered a plea by criminal information to one count of aggravated assault and one count of introduction of contraband into a penal facility. He received a three-year sentence in each case to run concurrently all suspended to supervised probation. He received jail credit from December 26th, 2022 to March 21, 2023.

Sheriff Patrick Ray said that on August 1, 2022 a deputy was called to a residence on Moore Taylor Road due to a child custody issue involving a gun. Upon arrival the officer spoke with a man who reported that two people showed up in a vehicle for the purpose of helping move someone out of the residence. The man said when he asked them to leave, the passenger of the automobile, Warrick pulled and cocked a gun, pointing it at him before leaving. An NCIC background check revealed that Warrick was under bond conditions out of Wilson County which prohibited him from carrying a weapon and being near a woman who was at this residence on Moore Taylor Road.

Almost five months later Warrick, a prisoner at the jail was found with cocaine and fentanyl hidden in his rectum.

Sheriff Ray said that on December 26, 2022 during a strip search of Warrick, a male correctional officer found a baggie containing 12 grams of a white powdery substance which Warrick produced from his rectum. The substances were tested and believed to be cocaine and fentanyl.