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Volume 145, Number 15
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Week of APRIL 18, 2018
Brain Games champ steps up to serve on senior board
By ALLEN RAU Staff Writer arau@heraldandtribune.com The newest member of the Jonesborough Senior Center Advisory Board brings a unique skill to the existing board. Joe Allison, who was recently nominated to serve on the board, is a two-time member of the State Brain Games Championship team. “Joe Allison is one of our long time members and he is a very active member,” Mary
Sanger, the senior center director, said. “It was felt he would make a great addition … he participates in activities, trips we take, eats lunch here — he’s just a really active member so we thought that he would bring a really good voice to the board.” Allison used to work at the Green Valley Developmental Center as a direct care professional and became involved with the senior center when
it was located at Persimmon Ridge. “At this point it’s a learning process for me,” Allison said. “It’s new territory. There’s a good crew on there and I haven’t really got to talk to all of them but they seem like a good bunch of folks.” While he is active in many activities at the senior center, belonging to the state championship Brain Games team, the Olde Towners, stands out. “We’ve won the state
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championship twice already. I always enjoyed trivia, and I went to one of their Brain Games competitions and I got a coffee cup and a ballpoint pen and I thought, ‘Hey, this is a racket and I’ll keep doing this.’” According to Sanger, the advisory board is a group of 10 people that meet once a month to advise the senior center on activities and programs offered. Appointed by the Jonesborough Board
County celebrates outstanding students for 2018 By MARINA WATERS Staff Writer mwaters@heraldandtribune.com On Monday night, a Washington County School System tradition continued; the highest-achieving students from Daniel Boone and David Crockett High Schools gathered for the district’s celebration to honor those students at the Top 10 banquet. The students, who were selected into the top 10 percent of their graduating class based on their GPA, were invited to attend the banquet held at the Millennium Centre in Johnson City. But this year’s students weren’t just the highest achieving at their school; the group earned a combined 4.4 out of a 4.0 GPA, which is the highest group GPA at a Top 10 banquet in the last 10 years — not to mention that 71 percent of this group of students had never made a grade lower than an “A.” “Being in the top 10 is a huge honor,” Director of Schools Kimber Halliburton told the Herald & Tribune. “It’s really difficult to get to this banquet in that 71 percent of the students here have never made below an A — that’s an incredible accomplishment. They work so hard to make
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Daniel Boone High School Senior Blake Hicks accepts his award from Director of School Kimber Halliburton while BOE member Todd Ganger and Annette Buchanan look on. sure that they turn in their course work on time, many of these kids take AP classes and we just want to honor them —
and hopefully motivate future students to want to come to this banquet.” And honored they were;
the high school seniors were treated to dinner with their families, along with enter-
of Mayor and Aldermen, the current group is comprised of five men and five women. “The majority of them are senior center members. Essentially, it’s a voice for the members A voice about activities and the direction of the center. They vote on things, so if we have a policy change they vote on that. They make recommendations for things the center needs to be doing, they help with fundraising.” See “BOARD” on Page 2A
Sheriff’s office gets go-ahead on camera request By MARINA WATERS Staff Writer mwaters@heraldandtribune.com The Washington County Sheriff’s Office is on its way to possible funding for body and vehicle cameras. WCSO Sheriff Ed Graybeal and WCSO Chief Deputy Leighta Laitinen presented the request to the Washington County Budget Committee at the Wednesday, April 11, meeting for $548,420 for 111 wearable cameras and 80 patrol car dash cameras. Graybeal said that while some officers in Washington County have body cameras, it’s important that his officers are equally equipped from both a safety and legal standpoint. “The court system doesn’t understand that (one officer) has a camera but (another officer) doesn’t have one,” Graybeal said. “If you talk to attorneys who go to court all the time, they’re going to tell you that’s a huge liability. Us being accredit-
By ALLEN RAU Staff Writer arau@heraldandtribune.com If you ever get a hankering for good, locally brewed beer and wood-fired pizza, there’s a joint two minutes from downtown Jonesborough that might ease your craving. Devin Rutledge, who recently purchased Depot Street Brewing, has spent many years honing his craft and he and his wife decided to purchase the business to become fully invested. “It wasn’t like an off-the-wall decision; pretty much my entire adult career has been brewing beer,” Rutledge said. As “Brewmaster of the Universe”, according to his business
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different ingredients. While the beer is definitely worth the visit, Depot Street also offers authentic wood-fired pizza. Shawn and Jennifer Stanley previously ran the Fire in the Hole Pizza food truck, but they are now permanently located at Depot Street. “They do a wood-fired pizza that is, and I’m not just saying this, it’s the best pizza I’ve had around here … I’ve been to Chicago and New York and I’d put that up there,” Rutledge said. “He’s really meticulous, he uses really good ingredients. He does the same thing as our beer and that’s kind of why he set up here. We have similar See “DEPOT” on Page 2A
ed, one of our accreditation standards is everybody has to be uniformed the same. And this is a safety measure that if you don’t go to court on a for $4 million or $5 million dollar lawsuit, this camera saves you money right there.” The request called for 111 wearable Wi-Fi enabled cameras and 80 patrol car retrofits with WiFi and GPS enabled dash cameras and Wi-Fi enabled transfer stations. Graybeal also said the equipment could help better ensure the security at local schools. “A lot of schools, their radios don’t always work in some areas of the school, so we want them to have this body camera so everybody knows what went on,” Graybeal said. “It’s a real safety issue for the schools and the schools’ resource officers. And I think it would deter a lot of issues having these marked cars in front of the schools and you have a uniformed,
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Depot Street changes brewmasters, adds pizza card, he takes craft beer to heart. “We do it in the authentic German fashion. Everything is kind of hands-on,” he said. “We definitely do the craft, we take that seriously.” Rutledge believes the process of brewing is very much an art. While some beers take a few weeks, some take a few months. “It depends on the beer. From grain to glass anywhere from two weeks to two months,” he said. “We do it the traditional way.” According to Rutledge, the process for brewing different beers is key. For instance, the ingredients of a lager and a pale ale are the same, but the process is different. Some may take longer, and some may have slightly
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