Putnam County Needs Election Workers by JIM HERRIN Sion Approved the Names of Judge and Special Judge
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VOLS COME BACK to win Gator Bowl! B1 Herald-CitizenFRIDAY,Herald-Citizen JANUARY 3, 2020 | COOKEVILLE, TENNESSEE 118TH YEAR | NO. 002 75 CENTS Putnam County needs election workers BY JIM HERRIN sion approved the names of Judge and Special Judge. If and workers must be in the a poll worker in Tennessee. HERALD-CITIZEN more than 200 individuals to the precinct is large, the num- precinct one hour before the They must complete an ap- help run the 2020 election, ber of workers will be greater. polls open to set the precinct plication form and have two With a presidential pref- but Steidl said some of those Steidl said offi cers are up. All the workers must teachers recommend them. erence and county primary people have said they will be paid $100 a day, plus $15 for stay the entire day and leave Others interested in work- election coming up in two unable to work. each of the machines they together that night. ing can pick up an application months, Putnam County According to the election oversee. Special judges make Election workers are also form at the Election Com- Administrator of Elections commission website, Election $100, plus $15 if they use their required to attend a training mission offi ce at 705 County Debbie Steidl is looking for Day workers are appointed own cell phones. Machine school before they can work Services Drive or print one help. from the precinct in which operators are paid $100, and and must be a resident and a from the the website, https:// “We are in need of work- they vote. The usual num- registrars are paid $90. All registered voter in Putnam putnamcountytn.gov/elec- ers,” Steidl said Friday ber of workers for a voting workers also receive $15 for County. tion-commission. morning. precinct is six, including the attending training. A 17-year-old student, even The primary will be held Last month, the Putnam positions of Offi cer, Precinct Polls are open on Election though they are not a reg- March 3. Early voting takes County Election Commis- Registrar, Machine Operator/ Day from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., istered voter, may serve as place Feb. 12-25. Police search for suspect in reported shooting BY PAIGE STANAGE HERALD-CITIZEN A woman was injured in a shooting early Friday morning in Cookeville and the sus- pect has not been found. The victim told offi cers that she was walking on Jere Whitson Road near the in- tersection of North Willow Avenue around midnight when a man in a dark hoodie ap- proached her and shot her, according to the Cookeville Police Department release. She was transported to Cookeville Re- gional Medical Center by a private vehicle. She was then transported by ambulance to Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The condition of the victim was not avail- able by press time Friday. The incident is under investigation and no other information can be released at this time, the release states. Hoot at the Hoop Anyone with information about the shoot- Cookeville’s Jake Hoot, left, winner of the 17th season on NBC’s ‘The Voice’ will perform at 1 p.m. in a ing should call the CPD Criminal Investiga- free concert Saturday at the Hooper Eblen Center with special guest Judah Akers of Judah & the Lion tion Division at 520-5322. as well as a surprise special guest. Boyd Farris Road closing for repairs BY LINDSAY MCREYNOLDS work doesn’t take longer than HERALD-CITIZEN a month. “It will depend on the weath- Part of Boyd Farris Road er,” he said. next to Falling Water River in Brown said seven or eight southeast Cookeville will be public works employees will closed for repair beginning be working on the project. Monday. “We’ll be hauling a lot of ma- “The part that will be terial in and hauling a lot of JIM HERRIN | HERALD-CITIZEN closed is adjacent to the river,” material out,” he said. “Most Director of Schools Jerry Boyd, far right, recognizes newly tenured Putnam County Cookeville Public Works of the work will be driving educators, along with their principals and supervisors. Director Greg Brown said. dump trucks.” “Signs will be up from Purple Brown said Boyd Farris Martin Lane and Old Bridge Road is still sliding after Road. The houses in between, previous repairs, so they plan More educators gain tenure they (residents) will still be to cut the road down closer to able to access.” the level of the river, remove BY JIM HERRIN to add 12 more names to the list. In July last year, the city dirt and rocks that slid into HERALD-CITIZEN They include Lucinda Queen of the Flex council approved a contract the river and dig it out. He Learning Center; Brandon Myers of Corner- with the United States Depart- said they’ll replace what they Twelve more Putnam County educators stone Elementary School; Whitney Pastorial ment of Agriculture’s Natu- remove with 24- to 36-inch size were granted tenure at the January meeting of Jere Whitson Elementary School; Lacy ral Resources Conservation rocks. of the Board of Education. Loggins and Taylor Dyer of Algood Mid- Service Emergency Watershed “We’ll put some Geotex- “These are the teachers that have met dle School; Rachel Huddleston and Laura Protection program to repair tile in,” he said. “That keeps state criteria for tenure,” Human Resources Roberson of Cane Creek Elementary School; the slope of the road, which the dirt from migrating up Director Angie Knight said. Joye Ashby, Jennie Patton and Amy Gore had slid into the river follow- through the rock. It helps to According to state law, if educators earn of Cookeville High School; Jeff rey Slagle of ing heavy rains last February. keep everything in place.” an overall level of eff ectiveness of four or the Central Offi ce; and Elizabeth Black of “We’ve got to take it nearly The estimated cost of the fi ve in each of their fi nal two probationary Prescott South Middle School. all the way down to the river project is $81,316. Cookeville is years, they become eligible for tenure. “We want to thank all of you, and we look and take the debris out of the providing a 25-percent match, More than 30 were granted tenure at the forward to continued success in your future river,” Brown said. $20,329, of what the federal November board meeting, and the board roles as you grow as professionals,” Director Brown said he’s hoping the government provides, $60,987. unanimously approved a motion Thursday of Schools Jerry Boyd said. herald-citizen.com INDEX 2 sections | 16 pages OBITUARIES Page A5 DEAR ABBY A10 COMICS A11 OPINION A4 Junior Hix, Cookeville Charles Hamlet Jr., Cookeville CALENDAR A6 CROSSWORD A11 SPORTS B1 Patsy Goad, Madison Martha Stout, McMinnville CLASSIFIED B2 LIVING A10 SUDOKU A11 Barbara Hawkins, Gainesboro Opal Johnson, Cookeville A2 HERALD-CITIZEN NEWS FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2020 herald-citizen.com 0LOTTERY0 Thursday Architect preparing cost fi gures for new school BY JIM HERRIN leste Gammon agreed. Cash 3 HERALD-CITIZEN “I just know we enjoy Evening 0-3-6, Lucky using that auditorium Sum: 9 Midday 1-9-2, Lucky The architect design- at Prescott,” she said. Sum: 12 ing a new school in “It’s larger and it gets Morning 7-3-3, Lucky southwest Cookeville well-used.” Sum: 13 says preliminary cost Chamberlin said fi gures will be ready he could develop cost Cash 4 to present to county estimates for a larger Evening 8-0-8-9, Lucky commissioners later auditorium. Sum: 25 this month. “It’s easy to put a Midday 9-9-3-4, Lucky Kim Chamberlin of number to it,” he said. Sum: 25 Upland Design Group “It doesn’t do much to Morning 4-7-7-3, Lucky Sum: 21 updated the school the stage, just the seat- board Thursday on the ing area.” Cash4Life proposed PreK-8 school Chamberlin also said 07-30-39-44-48, Cash that will be located on the U.S. Army Corps of Ball: 4 a 45-acre tract on Lee Engineers is scheduled Seminary Road. to visit the site Friday “I understand we’re to review potential targeting Jan. 13 for wetland issues. 0READERREADER SSERVICESERVICES0 a joint work session “I can’t think of a Address: with the commission, better day to go look 1300 Neal St. so we’ll have some cost at wetlands,” he said, Cookeville, TN 38501 numbers put togeth- in reference to the er for that,” he said, heavy rainfall over the JIM HERRIN | HERALD-CITIZEN Mailing Address: adding that he also past two days. “Geo hoped to have on a A rchitect K im Chamberlin addresses the Putnam County School Board. Services has told us P.O. Box 2729 3-D rendering of the they suspect that (the Cookeville TN 38502 plans available for that students away from the put those classroom ar- I’d love to look at the Corps) won’t really see meeting. older students. eas next to each other.” auditorium being full- anything diff erent than Phone: 931-526-9715 He presented board “That works out to Chamberlin said the school capacity, just what TDEC (Tennessee Fax: 931-526-1209 members with two about 176,000 square current design also because that’s a nice Department of Envi- potential fl oor plans, feet,” Chamberlin said. calls for an auditorium luxury,” said board ronment and Conser- News one of which splits the “The other scheme that capacity of about 500, member Kim Cravens.