The American Cancer Society invites you to make a special donation in honor or in memory of a loved one during the holiday season through “Love Lights a Tree”. A special memory board has been erected on the south side of the courthouse that lists the names of loved ones.
The names of Honorees are as follows:
Sandra Wall, Margie Smith, Mindy Gilbert, Doyle Evans, Gail Bailiff, Chizuko Howard, Earl D. France, Gail Taylor, Tracie Webb Baker, Willie Turner, Jo D. Johnson, Walter Johnson, Faye Iverlette, Patsy Judkins, Susan Young, Faye James, Georgie Willoughby, Linda Judkins, Carolyn Sheets, Lisa Anderson, Ralph Curtis, Radley Hendrixson, and Jeffrey Ponder.
Those in memory are as follows:
Jerry James Owens, T.J. White, Loyd Redmon, Ruby Cook, and Pam Baker Cook, Amy Lynn Miller, Earl Judkins, Marie Judkins, Len Judkins, Clyde Randolph, Mary Randolph, Ruth Elder, Jordan Steinbach, Esker Harrison, Eva Harrison, Green Wall, Maud Wall, Mai Akin, John D. Akin, Bob Cook, Buddy Cook, Tony Durso, Willie Foutch, Byron Foutch, Lillie and Grady Judkins, Clarence and Jewell Phillips, Donna Phillips, Margaret and G.D. Hendrixson, Sandra Willoughby, Donald Smith, Eva Crook, Grady Crook, Virgil Smith, Nan Smith, Brownie Haley, Lucille Cook Harris, Ida Malone, Brackett Luna, Nadine Luna, Leonard Freeman, Sr., Margaret Freeman, Buddy Freeman, Kenneth D. Howard, Haskel Elby Howard, T.C. McMillen, Royce T. Givens, Jr., Billy J. France, James Alvie France, Zona Selby, Cora Elizabeth Taylor, Ulys Brent Taylor, Harvey Colwell, Jr., Will Allen Cathcart, Martha Cathcart, Kevin Sanders, Wilma Cathey, Carl Reynolds, Thadeuss Anderson, Bryan T. Walker, Casaundra R. Maple, Helen Vance, Troy J. Bain, Rebecca Gingerich, Ella Mae Harness, Jennifer Kincaid, William Doyle Thomason, Jo Ann Tramel, Bailey Carr, Ethel Carr, Darrell Carr, Regena Carr Olivo, Frances Cantrell, Johnny Cantrell, Jodie Cantrell, Clifton Cantrell, Angie Allen, Edward Hobson, H.R. Rosson, J.W. Pack, James Goodwin, Marie Young, Robert Joines, Johnnie Joines, Marvin Hutson, Sarah L. Hutson, Howard Gunter, Phillip Gunter, Vada Pauline Herndon, Mallow Herndon, H.C. Duke, Lynn Duke, Kathy Foster, Tracy Cassity, Glen Smith, Linnie Johnson, Jessie Paul Johnson, Arlo Cook, Arzie Usrey, Chris Stanley, Homer Ellis, Harold M. Adcock, Charles “Chuck” McCracken, David Ray Davenport, Vanice King Davenport, Vera Bell Davenport, Alfred Love, Jack Tubb, J.C. Oakley, George Durham, Ralph Keaton, David Randolph, Luther and Pearl Fuson, Violet Fuson, Peggy and John Palmer, Jr., Eulalia Cobb Vaughn, Betty Nixon Vickers, Leonard Nixon, Howard Stanley, Everett Redmon, Odell Redmon, Albert Taylor, Winnie Taylor, Jeremy Caldwell, Joshua Caldwell, Mary L. Collins, Rebecca Beason, Cecil Adkins, Geraldine Fish, Dr. Jerry Puckett, Joe Ronald Frazier, John Larry Frazier, Billie Ann Malone Frazier, Woodrow W. Frazier.
The names are in “honor of” and in “memory of” for a donation of five-dollars per name. Forms may be obtained at the local banks. For more information, contact Barbara Ashford at 417-6563, Ivadell Randolph at 597-5296, Lynda Luna at 597-5837, Renee Cantrell at 597-4551, Melanie Judkins at 597-1132, or Patsy Judkins at 597-4213.

The U.S. Postal Service is looking to reduce hours of operation at the Liberty Post Office.
The proposal is to reduce the window hours from eight hours to six hours a day Monday through Friday. Saturday hours would remain the same.
A community meeting is set for Wednesday, January 29 at noon to discuss the proposals with the public at the Liberty Post Office. “Nationwide the Postal Service is realigning retail window hours at our rural post offices and it’s based on customer usage. One of those offices on the list is the Liberty Post Office. We will have a meeting there on January 29 at noon to discuss with residents who are served by that office what their options are,” said David Walton, a spokesman for the Tennessee District of the U.S. Postal Service in an interview with WJLE
Liberty Postal customers can expect to receive a notification letter soon along with a survey. “We ask that they complete that survey and send it back to us prior to the meeting so we can share the results at the community meeting. The survey gives customers four options. They can vote to keep their post office open. The other three options would involve closing the office. One would be to establish a village post office in the community. Another would be to close that post office and be served by another nearby post office. The fourth option would be to close the post office and get retail services from their carrier. The plan for this particular office would be to reduce it to a six hour office so we would be cutting two hours. Of course that’s Monday through Friday, the Saturday hours would remain the same. At the public meeting, we will share the results of that survey. We’ll share how many people turned in their surveys and what the results were,” said Walton.
The Postal service will post a final decision a few days after the community meeting is held.
Almost a year ago, the window service hours at the Alexandria Post Office were reduced from eight to six hours each weekday with no change on Saturdays. Alexandria carriers began working out of the Watertown Post Office in November, 2012.

A Christmas eve fire has claimed a life.
A body was found inside a burned out mobile home which caught fire early this morning (Tuesday) at 218 Poplar Place in Lakeview Mountain Estates off Cookeville Highway.
The identity of the man has not been released. An autopsy is being performed.
911 received the call at 1:56 a.m. of a structure fire on Poplar Place with possibly someone still inside the home.
Members of the Main Station, Short Mountain Highway, and Cookeville Highway Stations of the DeKalb County Volunteer Fire Department responded along with the tanker and equipment truck and manpower from other county fire stations. DeKalb EMS and the Sheriff’s Department were also on the scene.
The mobile home was apparently fully involved in flames by the time firefighters were alerted. The trailer was gutted by the fire and could not be saved.
The cause of the fire has not yet been determined but is under investigation by the Sheriff’s Department and the Tennessee Bomb and Arson Section.
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DeKalb County has received approval for a $9,200 Used Motor Oil Collection Grant from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation’s Division of Solid Waste Management.
Funds from the grant will be used to acquire tanks, canopies, pads, and absorbents.
DeKalb is among twenty seven counties or cities to receive the grants totaling $444,300 to establish, upgrade or replace existing equipment or establish a new collection center.
County Mayor Mike Foster said funds from the grant will be used to establish a used oil collection point at one and possibly two county garbage collection convenience sites. The landfill and five of the convenience sites already have places to collect used oil. Some also have places to collect used anti-freeze.
“Educating citizens on the proper disposal of used motor oil can have a direct impact on the water quality of Tennessee’s lakes, streams and groundwater,” TDEC Commissioner Bob Martineau said.
Tennesseans who change their own motor oil generate more than one million gallons of used oil each year, which can pollute soil and water and interfere with the operation of sewer systems when not properly disposed. The General Assembly authorized the Used Oil Collection Act of 1993 to assist local communities in collecting used oil and reducing its negative effects on the environment. Tennessee’s Solid Waste Management Act requires counties to have at least one place in the county where used oil can be properly disposed. Used oil collection grants are funded by a two cent deposit on every quart of oil purchased in the state.
Used Motor Oil Collection Grants assist local governments in improving and expanding used oil infrastructure for the collection of used oil from do-it-yourselfers. Equipment purchased through the Used Motor Oil Collection Grants may include containers, used oil heaters, containment structures, shelter covers and other items. Tennessee counties, cities, solid waste authorities and counties having a metropolitan form of government are eligible for funding consideration.
The priorities for receiving a grant include upgrading or replacing equipment to bring used oil collection centers up to the standards of the Used Oil Collection and Recycling Grant Program requirements. An additional priority is the establishment of a new do-it-yourself used oil collection center.