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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2015 | VOL 8 | NO. 46
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Eagles
ends HHS
football
season
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Devin Smith finds an opening.
JOHN DECKER / Hendersonville Standard
Hillsboro too much for Beech to handle
Bison rain
down
three
pointers
in season
opener
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By RUSSELL VANNOZZI
Hendersonville Standard
NASHVILLE -- Beech and
Hillsboro met for the second
time in the last three weeks, and
once again it was the Burros that
came out on top.
Hillsboro beat Beech 21-17 on
October 30 to claim first place in
Region 6-5A.
Unfortunately for the Buccaneers, Friday’s loss ended their
season in the second round of
the TSSAA 5A Playoffs. Hillsboro scored 42 unanswered
points in their 42-7 victory over
the Bucs.
“You hate it for the seniors,”
said Beech head coach Anthony
Crabtree. “Until you’ve experienced what it feels like for that
high school career to be over,
nobody can describe what those
emotions are like.”
Hillsboro quarterback Daylon Murphy found wide receiver
Malique Fleming for a 54-yard
gain on their opening possession. Later in the drive, Murphy
hit Jeremy Hill on the right side
for an eight-yard touchdown
pass.
Deandre Alexander gave
Hillsboro a 14-0 lead when he
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Substitute teacher fired over offensive remark about police
Worker was
removed from
classroom;
immediately
fired
By SHERRY MITCHELL
A Sumner County substitute
teacher was fired last week after making an inflammatory remark against law enforcement.
According to Jeremy Johnson, spokesperson for Sumner
County Schools, Loretta Battle
was working as a substitute
last week at Beech High School
when she reportedly made
the comment about police that
didn’t sit well with staff and
some students in the class.
“We had a substitute teacher
make an inappropriate, derogatory comment in a government classroom; something
to the effect that all cops are
criminals and they just wake
up every day and decide who
they are going to kill,” Johnson
said Monday. “We had some of
the students that took offense
to that and alerted the principal, Mr. (Kenny) Powell and he
went down and removed Mrs.
Battle. After Mr. Powell contacting the central office, she
was terminated.”
Johnson said the school system has no tolerance for this of
behavior.
“Obviously, this isn’t representative of the opinion of
Beech High or Sumner County
schools,” he said. “We have
always enjoyed an excellent
working relationship with our
local law enforcement agencies
and we felt these comments
were unacceptable. We believe
students should be taught police are there to assist them and
should be shown respect.”
Johnson said Battle had
worked with the Sumner County
system since August of this year;
filling in when needed at Beech
High, Beech Elementary and
Hunter Middle School around 54
times in the past few months.
Battle could not be reached
for comment.
Judge rules schools’ open
records policy illegal
Orders school
system to have
a new policy
by March 1
By JOSH NELSON
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The Sumner County Board of
Education’s open records policy is
illegal, Sumner County Criminal
Court Judge Dee Gay ruled Friday.
He ordered the board to no longer use the policy and come up
with a new one for him to review
by March 1, 2016.
Todd Presnell, an attorney representing the school board, asked
for a 30-day stay (a delay) of the
order so the board could decide
whether to appeal the ruling,
which the judge granted.
The question of the legality of
the arose after Ken Jakes of Joelton
sued the board April 9, 2014, after
he felt the schools denied a public
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records request he sent via email
in March of 2014.
The policy required all public
records requests be in writing –
either in person or via U.S. Mail,
which Gay said was “a clear violation of the law,” Gay wrote in
the ruling, as the Tennessee Public
Records Act (TPRA) specifically
states “A records custodian may
not require a written request.”
A revised policy later adopted
by the board did not require a
written request, but gave a person
the option to make a request in
writing through the U.S. Mail or
by appearing in person.
Gay said, “All of this results in a
‘forced’ election of a written request or
‘forced’ election to appear in person”
which he later in the ruling called “a
clever arrangement of words.”
“Further, the argument that a requester has ‘choices’ or can ‘elect’ to
make a request in writing is very hollow argument when one ‘choice’ or
‘election’ is expressly prohibited under the TPRA – a request to inspect
public records in writing, ‘via postal
service,’” Gay wrote. “The other
‘choice’ or ‘election’ can be ex-
tremely
inconvenient
by having to
come in person to the
School Board.”
Gay
also
cited the Best
Practices
Ken Jakes
Guidelines for
Records Custodians Responding to Requests for
Public Records (BPG).
“From the TPRA and the BPG, it is
very clear to this Court that in the application of the TPRA that openness
and the accessibility of non-exempt
records are favored,” Gay wrote.
“It is also very clear that the law has
placed no restriction on the form or
the format of a request for inspection
of records other than: (1) a request
for inspection or viewing cannot be
required to be initiated by a written
request; (2) any request for inspection
of a public record shall be sufficiently
detailed to enable the record custodian to identify the specific records.”
Gay said Jakes request met both
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2015 — A3
Mass transit meeting held at Vol State
By JOSH NELSON
Around 110 people attended
a meeting last Thursday night at
Vol State about mass transit for
the Middle Tennessee region.
There is currently bus service to Hendersonville and
Gallatin, but several speakers
said mass transit needs to be a
more central part of the area.
Clay Haynes, who serves on
the board of directors of Cumberland Region Tomorrow, said
67 percent of Sumner County’s
workforce leaves the county every single day to go to work.
“I can see what route that
they’re taking because I’m
coming the other way from
East Nashville and I can see the
literally eight miles of traffic on
Vietnam Veteran’s that is just
waiting to get to their jobs in
Nashville,” he said.
Haynes said Sumner County
is expected to grow from about
160,000 people now to about
250,000 people by 2040.
“We’re one of the fastest
growing regions in the United
States,” County Executive Anthony Holt said of the Middle
Tennessee area. “With these
people moving in, it creates a
huge challenge for this area. I
believe we’re all up to the challenge, but we’ve got to work
together and it’s going to take
a huge investment on our part
because we can’t build our way
out of this in terms of widening
our interstates and other infrastructure. We’ve got to have
smart transportation and alternatives for the future.”
Chris O’Neal, with the Transit Alliance of Middle Tennessee said around 80 people move
to Middle Tennessee every day.
“We have a lot of people who
come in from out of state, and I
hear the same thing from a lot
of them,” he said. “They tell me,
‘I’m so glad to be in this area
(Middle Tennessee)...but I’m
always shocked that it takes so
much time to get around.”
“If we don’t get serious about
the issue of transit, then eventually those folks will catch on and
decide, ‘Maybe I don’t
want to locate there,’”
he added. “‘If I
move my business there and
my folks can’t
get in to work,
or that it’s a
real problem for
them to get into
work every single
day…’ My concern is that rush
stops, and that
affects the whole
economy in our region.”
Transit movement has begun
The executive director of the
Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), Steve Bland, then addressed the possible future of
mass transit in Middle Tennessee.
It is being done under a
movement they call “nmotion.”
“The nmotion planning process is designed to create a really
strong regional transit system,”
Bland said. “It is not intended
to design and create a system
you have to use – we hope to
devise and create a system that
you want to use at least for some
purposes. Our goal is to design
some viable options for you.”
“It is a recurring theme about
what we’re hearing around the
region – we need the system to
be seamless,” said Bland, who
also heads
#COUNTY
Briley elected register of deeds
Will serve through
election next year
By JOSH NELSON
Cindy Briley, chief deputy in the
Sumner County Register of Deeds
office, will fill out the remainder of
Pam Whitaker’s term after Whitaker passed away last month.
The Sumner County Commission voted to have Briley serve
until the August election at their
meeting Monday night.
“Pam thought the world of her,”
said Whitaker’s husband, Howard.
Briley, who was nominated by
District Eight Commissioner Paul
Decker of Hendersonville, has been
working in the office since 2003.
“I’ve worked side-by-side everyday with Pam on all the operations
of the office,” she said. “She hired
all of us and handpicked all of us,
and we work really good together
and we work
good as a group.
The office has
run
smoothly
right now. I’ll
do the best job I
can.”
The vote was
unanimous after
Cindy Briley
the other nominee for the position, Linda Pitt,
withdrew her nomination, saying
she wanted Briley to hold the office.
“I have a campaign to run, and
I’m going to work really hard and
fast and so I’m throwing my (support) for Cindy,” Pitt said.
Briley is not running for the office.
Those who have picked up papers to run are Pitt, chair of the
Sumner County Republican Party;
District Four Commissioner Jerry
Foster, a Republican from Gallatin; District Six Commissioner Jim
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the Metro Transit Agency.
“(People) tell us, ‘We want a
system that is inter-connected
and easy to use.’”
Right now, the RTA is trying
to get citizen input, which was
the reason behind the meeting
Thursday night.
“We’re doing the outreach
now and getting preferences,”
Bland said. “Our intent is to –
right about after the first of the
year – release a series of scenarios about things that could
happen and then come back
out through the region, including Sumner County, run some
of those by you, and hear you
say, ‘Hey, that looks pretty
good,’ or, ‘Not over my dead
body will I let you do that.’”
They have already identified
some major issues which they
are working to address.
First, Bland
said, people
believe service
is too limited
which
creates problems
if there is a
child-care issue or working overtime.
They recognize other issues
as well.
“I think the key to the
magic sauce for a lot of our coun-
ties in Middle Tennessee is figuring
out ways – affordably and creatively – to make sure that the transit experience can be quick, simple, reliable, (and) dependable,” Bland said.
“What we’ve found (in other meetings) is something that is direct, fast,
and at the right times, people will
absolutely use it.”
“I can easily envision a time in
the not-to-distant future – meaning one-to-three years – where
on your phone you can have
traffic conditions, parking availability, real-time transit information, (and) mobile ticketing,” he
continued, “and when you’re
going to say, ‘I want to go to a
hockey game in Nashville tomorrow night, what are my options?’
Sure, it will give you driving directions where to park and how
much parking is, (but) maybe it
will also say (mass transit) will
leave at this time and here is what
you pay and here’s when you
can get back so you can select options. It’s about choice and mobility – it’s not about forced ride.”
Another aspect Bland addressed was cost.
“The answer is ‘very expensive’ and if we don’t do it ‘even
more expensive,’ he said. “We
will not argue that transit is the
only solution available or the
best solution, but it really needs
to be a part of that larger toolbox
that we all have available to us.”
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#WEATHER
Warm weather trend
will begin shifting
Ice storms not
likely this winter
By SHERRY MITCHELL
Sumner County has seen a relatively
mild fall this year, but with the holidays
just around the corner, some residents
may be wondering what’s ahead on the
weatherfront for this winter.
“November is our secondary severe
weather season and that is often times
preceded by an unusually warm period (and) the temperature is averaging nearly six degrees above normal
through Nov. 15,” Bobby Boyd, meteorologist for the National Weather Service said. “Cooler weather is on the way
for the latter part of November, so we
will likely average out a little above normal for the month.”
Warmer weather in November can
sometimes lead to deadly storms, but so
far, that hasn’t been the case in Middle
Tennessee, Boyd said.
“So far this November, severe weather
has been missing here in Middle Tennessee even though it has been mild,”
he said. “This has been mainly because
the jet stream configuration has kept the
storm track and severe storms well to our
west and north through the first half of
the month. “In fact, there have only been
11 Tennessee tornadoes in 2015 with no
fatalities. So far this year, Tennessee has
had the fewest tornadoes since 2007 when
10 occurred. On average there are 19 tornadoes in Tennessee annually with five
fatalities on average.”
Nonetheless,
the next few
weeks could be
wetter than average, he said.
“November Bobby Boyd
2015 has been dry with only a 0.64 inch
of rain falling through mid-month at the
Nashville airport, however, above normal rainfall is expected the last half of the
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Snowfall last five
winter seasons:
2014-15...6.1 inches
2013-14...1.6
2012-13...1.3
2011-12...0.4
2010-11...12.5 (Most snow
since the winter of 2002-03
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Novembers
on record:
1923
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1909
1931
1985
1973
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County working to improve,
extend greenway
New section
would be north
of Long Hollow/
Station Camp
intersection
By JOSH NELSON
A committee overseeing the development of the Sumner County Greenway
system approved a preliminary plan for
an extension to the greenway in the Station Camp area at a recent meeting.
The committee, which is made up
of both elected officials and private
citizens, also unanimously approved
seeking grant money for the project,
which is expected to cost $1.5 million
– of which the county would have to
pitch in $300,000.
Kim Ark, county grants administrator, said the body was ready to
move forward after the county received approval of an environmental
evaluation.
“We’ll be working over the next
two months to get the design plans
approved through TDOT so we can
get the bidding documents out by Jan.
so construction can start in March,”
she said.
The greenway would be built in
three phases, beginning at the trailhead at the Douglass-Clark House at
the intersection of Long Hollow Pike
and Lower Station Camp Creek Road,
run north along the creek before
bending west to 265 acres the county
recently purchased to build a school.
“Phase I will take approximately
five months,” Ark said. “The middle
section will connect Stone Creek subdivision and Welch College, and Phase
III will take six-to-seven months. It
has a pedestrian bridge that will connect to the school campus...and connect into the back of Saundersville
Station subdivision. Hopefully by this
time next year, those phases will be
complete.”
Ark and County Executive Anthony Holt also updated the committee
on work on the lower portion of the
greenway.
“In May, Anthony and I, as well
as Charlie Hudson, one of our maintenance guys, and (state Rep.) William Lamberth went to the old state
penitentiary in Nashville to look at
some of the old state capitol columns
and picked out two pieces,” Ark said.
“They’re numbered because they are
categorized as state museum pieces...
we’ll have to sign an agreement with
the State of Tennessee that they are
on loan, and we will have to maintain
them. We will have to arrange to go
get them once we’re ready to place
them on the greenway.”
Holt said, “They are going to be on
the greenway for people to sit on. They
are columns from the original capitol.
They were replaced in the ‘40s or ‘50s
because they were starting to deteriorate. They’re made out of solid limestone and they were quarried by slaves
and convicts at the time – that is what
the state historian told us. We’ll set them
out there at some strategic place on the
greenway for people to sit on and look
at – they’re like a piece of art. We got a
fluted piece of a main column and then
we got a top piece – a cornice.”
Holt said more historical pieces
could be coming.
“Also, we did apply for a state Arts
Commission grant,” he said. “I was
fortunate enough to save part of the
old 109 bridge – some of the iron out of
it that was riveted together, and we’ve
got that squirreled away. The grant
would pay for a local artist to build a
sculpture out of it, but we weren’t fortunate enough this time to get selected
for it. But we can apply for that again.”
Holt said it is all part of the county’s effort to do long-range planning.
“This is part of a bigger master
plan for the whole area,” he said.
“This year, I’m chairman of the RTA
(Regional Transportation Authority),
and we’re working on a transit system
for the whole Nashville area. Hwy 386
will be that corridor that runs down,
and we’ve identified transit stops and
one of the transit stops is going to be
in the Station Camp area. That’s one
reason these grants have been so competitive because they are considered
active transportation corridors and
they want to connect all the growth
that is going to be in this area.
“People can actually one day take
a bike on a nice day and bike down
to the transit stop and get on the RTA
transit – whatever it is, be it light rail
or bus rapid transit – and then go all
the way to Nashville and not drive a
car. A lot of – especially the younger
people as you get the density up and
there are a lot of apartments being
built in Station Camp – that believe it
is a viable transportation source. It’s
part of trying to do local to try to connect into regional planning.”
#ANIMALCONTROL
Lawsuit filed against county animal
control alleging neglect of pet dog
According to a lawsuit filed Monday, this Great Dane reportedly lost 40 pounds while being quarantined at Sumner
County Animal Control.
Submitted.
By SHERRY MITCHELL
A local man is suing the Sumner County Animal Control over
what he claims was negligent care
to his Great Dane, Chief.
Hendersonville attorney Roland Mumford filed papers in
Sumner County Circuit Court
Monday on behalf of his client,
Jason Corlew.
Corlew’s dog was taken to the
county animal control facility in
Gallatin for a 10-day mandated
quarantine period this past August, after biting a friend’s small
child that required stitches and
plastic surgery.
When he picked the dog up,
Corlew said Chief was covered in
feces and was emaciated; having
lost around 40 pounds, according to
his veterinarian. Chief was also diagnosed with a blood infection and
had burn marks on his paw pads
and feet from standing in his own
urine and feces, the vet said. In addition, the dog’s joints had become
swollen from sitting for extended
period of time, they believed.
It was determined that incorrect
sloping when the facility was built
was causing waste to pool in kennels where dogs are kept. The problem has been ongoing, with Sheriff
Sonny Weatherford - whose department now oversees animal control having tried to get more funding for
the problem, but with no luck.
“They were saying the floors
aren’t sloped, and that part is correct - when they built the building,
somehow that got cut out,” Weatherford told the Hendersonville
Standard last week. “I didn’t have
anything to do with the architect or
the building...but when I saw that
we had a problem, I took it back
in front of the county commission,
I told them it was going to cost
something like $45,000 to have the
floors ground and sloped, and the
commission didn’t approve it.”
The lawsuit is seeking $1,000 in
compensatory damages, which includes a $600 vet bill, but Corlew
said the complaint is not about
money - it’s about making sure
other families and their pets do
not go through a similar situation.
“The issue we are having is
that we trusted our dog, which is
a member of our family, to them
to give him adequate care and it
wasn’t done - the dog was basically starved for 10 days,” Corlew
said last week. “They could have
either taken him to the vet or have
us come pick him up. They never
called me once and I called numerous times and was always told the
dog was fine. There just needs to be
a lot of changes - I don’t want his
to happen to anybody else’s dog.”
Mumford agreed, saying last
week, “There is a lot of principal
at play here.”
The lawsuit states, “The con-
ditions of the facility were not
properly maintained and/or built
for proper draining of urine and/
or feces into the drain. Upon information and belief, the floors of
the unit holding canines are not
properly sloped for drainage of
urine and/or feces. The unit and/
or space containing the canine
was not properly maintained
and/or cleansed and/or rinsed for
removal of urine and/or feces.”
The suit also claims the defendant (Sumner County Animal Control) did not properly care for Corlew’s dog by properly bathing him
for the removal of feces and urine;
nor did the facility contact Corlew
about the condition of his dog, or
provide veterinary care for the dog.
The suit further asks for, “Injunctive relief that Defendant remove, modify, improve, and/or
repair the dangerous or defective
condition in the premises of the
animal control division wherein
there shall be proper slope and/or
angle for drainage and/or urine
such that animals shall no longer
remain pooled in their own feces
and/ wherein there shall be proper slope and/or angle for drainage
and/or urine such that animals
shall no longer remain pooled in
their own feces and/or urine.”
County Attorney Leah May
Dennen said Wednesday she had
not yet reviewed the complaint
and could not comment.
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Sumner YMCA
is failing
local seniors
More than 1,000 local senior citizens are scrambling to
either find a new place to exercise, or come up with more
money to continue to visiting the Sumner County YMCA.
The seniors learned two weeks ago, the local
YMCA would be dropping its Silver Sneakers program; a wellness program covered as a benefit to seniors on certain Medicare supplement plans. While
they have been getting the service free, with the insurance benefit paying the nonprofit business for
each visit, YMCA now says they will have to pay a
flat rate of $40 out of pocket or $58 per couple.
The YMCA says the amount of reimbursement
they are getting from the program for each senior
visit just isn’t sustainable - but that’s only in Sumner
County, they said. Seniors at all 14 other middle Tennessee YMCA locations, including areas where income levels are higher like Williamson County, will
still get to use the program free.
Sumner seniors can still use their benefit of free
membership, but only if they drive to another YMCA
location, such as East Nashville or Green Hills.
To add insult to injury, many of the seniors being
affected are the very ones that helped the Sumner
County facility get off its feet; contributing more than
$50,000. It’s no wonder some seniors are saying they
feel like they are being dumped.
Several other local gyms, including the Gallatin Civic
Center, are already courting the members. For many of
those seniors affected, it remains to be seen whether any
of them will actually join the Sumner YMCA or take their
business elsewhere, where they feel more welcome.
Why is the Silver Sneakers program still sustainable
in 14 of their other Middle Tennessee locations? It appears that maybe too many seniors in Sumner County
are interested in being healthy and actually using the
benefit. Shouldn’t that be a good thing for an entity
that promotes physical wellbeing and fitness?
On its websites, YMCA promotes its mission as being , “A worldwide charitable fellowship united by
a common loyalty to Jesus Christ for the purpose of
helping people grow in spirit, mind and body.”
It doesn’t seem very charitable for a nonprofit to
refuse to honor a benefit that seniors have earned and
are in fact, paying for in their insurance premiums.
We hope the Sumner County YMCA can dig a little
deeper and find a better solution for local seniors, and
maybe show them a little bit more of that charitable
spirit they are promoting.
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What we learned from a citizen’s fight
for public records in Sumner County
By DEBORAH
FISHER
At a cost of
about three or
four
college
educations at
the University
of TennesseeKnoxville,
Sumner County’s school officials
and school board just got educated about the state’s public records law.
Sumner County parents and
taxpayers paid the tuition.
On Nov. 13, Sumner County
Judge Dee Gay ruled that the
school district violated the Tennessee Public Records Act when it
denied a citizen’s request to see a
copy of its public records policy.
The school district had argued
that it could reject any request to
see public records if the person
made the request by email or by
phone, which is what Joelton resident Ken Jakes did.
It took 20 months and a citizen
who was willing to spend more
than $10,000 of his own money on
an attorney to tell the school district
what should have been obvious all
along. It can’t make up local rules to
block access to public records. The
judge ordered the school district to
change its practices and its illegal
public records policy to come into
compliance with the law.
In 2008, the Tennessee Legislature improved the public records
law to get rid of some of the nonsense that was needlessly blocking access to government records
and preventing citizens from exercising their right to know what
their government was doing.
First, lawmakers added language that public records should
be provided “promptly” when a
citizen asks. But if that isn’t possible -- such as if the request is
for a large number of documents
or a question exists about confidentiality — lawmakers said a
government entity could take
seven business days to get back
with the requester. Even then, in
situations of large or complicated
requests, a government entity
could simply tell the requester
how much longer it would take
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to compile the records.
There are more than 350 exemptions to the Tennessee Public Records Act. But the record
requested by Jakes — a one-page
school board records policy —
was not exempt and the request
was not large.
In fact, the policy was available online if you knew where to
look, and as the judge noted, the
schools’ community relations officer could have simply emailed
back a link.
Another step the Legislature
took in 2008 was to establish the
Office of Open Records Counsel.
Many states have similar entities,
often called an ombudsman, with
varying degrees of authority. The
idea behind these offices is to
help citizens gain access to public
documents when they are having difficulty and provide guidance on the law to government
entities so they can comply. They
provide best practices for government, and they are usually a way
to settle disputes and misunderstandings before a costly lawsuit
is sought. In some states (not in
Tennessee), a judge can levy civil
or criminal penalties against a
governmental entity found to
violate the law.
The trial in July raised questions about the effectiveness of
the law changes in 2008.
For example, the school district’s community relations official
Jeremy Johnson testified that he often provided public records to journalists who emailed and asked for
them. But if someone mentioned
the Tennessee Public Records Act
in their email request, he told them
they had to mail a written request
through the U.S. Postal Service or
appear in person in Gallatin before
he would respond.
This is just plain bizarre, and
journalists with whom I spoke
had no idea of this secret “code”
despite multiple interactions
with Johnson. Whatever Johnson’s reasoning, surely it was not
the intent of the Legislature that
mentioning the Tennessee Public
Records Act would actually make
it harder and take longer to see a
readily available, non-exempt
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public record. And more specifically, that the word “promptly”
added to the law in 2008 could be
so easily undermined.
Another question raised by the
case was the role of the Office of
Open Records Counsel.
In the Sumner County ruling,
the judge quoted heavily from
state law, but also from the Best
Practices Guidelines on the Open
Records Counsel’s website.
“From the (Tennessee Public
Records Act) and the (Best Practices Guidelines), it is very clear
to this Court that in the application of the TPRA that openness
and accessibility of non-exempt
records are favored. It is also very
clear that the law has placed no
restriction on the form or the format of a request for inspection
of public records other than: (1)
a request for inspection or viewing cannot be required to be initiated by a written request; (2) any
request for inspection of a public
records shall be sufficiently detailed to enable the record custodian to identify the records,” Gay
said in his order.
The school board’s attorney,
Jim Fuqua, testified that after a
45-minute phone conversation
with then-Open Records Counsel Elisha Hodge, he thought
the school district was on solid
ground to refuse a request that
came by email.
Did Hodge, an expert in public
records law, give Fuqua the clearance to reject Jakes’ emailed and
phoned request despite state law,
at least two relevant appellate
court decisions and information
that seemed to shout the opposite
on the Best Practice Guidelines
on her own website?
We don’t know because Hodge
was not called to testify. Nor did
she provide a written advisory
opinion on the topic, which Fuqua
could have requested after his
conversation with her. By law, an
advisory opinion would be posted
as a public record on the Open Records Counsel website.
But the bigger question is
whether the Legislature’s intent
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Scouts honor local veterans
Local scout troops 407 and 75 recently honored local veterans. Each year in observance of Veterans Day, they make
signs, put flags up and wave to the people passing by Memorial Park. Front row: Shay Oliphant, Shay Michael Oliphant,
Michael Murphy, Shaunda Kohls, Mikey Peterson, Kam'ren Taylor, Brandt Fortune, Daniel Rodriguez, Jack Vickers, Luke
Batey, Doug Gafney, Toby Parrotta, Patrick Dunigan, Carson Hatcher, Carson Rynor, Jaxson Henley, Benjamin Komoll.
Back row: Tyler Silkwood, Taylor Pederson, Graham Sanavitis, Greyson Kohls, Alex Masters, Will Masters, Josh Shanahan,
John MacKorell, Nathan Gafney, Griffin Peters, Samuel Burton.
DAVID PETERS / Submitted
Gardner earns mortgage
industry’s highest designation
From Staff Reports
Retta Gardner, president and
CEO of Guaranty Trust Company,
is one of only 17 professionals nationwide earning the Certified Mortgage Banker (CMB) designation in
2015. Guaranty Trust, a subsidiary
of Volunteer State Bank headquartered in Portland, has a Hendersonville office at 323 E Main St.
The CMB designation is the
highest professional honor within
the real estate finance industry.
Gardner joins about 1,200 professionals nationwide who have
completed all requirements to
earn the designation. She is certified in the residential mortgage
banking discipline.
Mortgage industry professionals must have a combination of
professional experience, education and industry leadership to be
eligible to test for the designation.
After meeting these requirements,
the mortgage industry executive
was required to demonstrate industry knowledge by passing both
a written and oral examination.
Gardner is a 2015 graduate of
the Mortgage Bankers Association School of Mortgage Banking,
for which she earned the Accredited Mortgage Professional designation. She is the current secretary-treasurer of the Tennessee
Mortgage Bankers Association.
Guaranty Trust Company is
a billion-dollar mortgage lender
that ranks
a m o n g
the
top
100 mortgage companies in
America.
The comp a n y
maintains
sales of- Retta Garner
fices
in
Brentwood, Fayetteville, Hendersonville, Knoxville, Mt. Juliet,
Murfreesboro and Shelbyville.
The company also markets mortgages nationally through its
wholesale and Internet lending
services. Guaranty Trust is an
Equal Housing Lender.
JEROLD FLINN, age 76 of Hendersonville, passed
away Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015. Memorial Mass will be
11 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 20 at Our Lake of the Lake
Catholic Church. Visitation will be on Thursday, Nov.
19 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the church. Mr. Flinn was born
July 20, 1939 in Indianapolis, Ind., son of the late Joseph
and Margaret Louise Freudenberg Flinn. In addition to
his parents, he is preceded in death by brother, Joseph
Flinn and sister, Margaret Mary Flinn. He is survived
by wife, Irene Gutapfel Flinn of Hendersonville; sons,
Jonathan Flinn (Sarah) of Nashville and Joseph Flinn
of Hendersonville; daughter, Tabitha Mimms (Chris)
of Gallatin; brother, James Flinn (Linda) of Naperville,
Ill.; sister, Shirley Meineke (Anthony) of Milford, Ohio
and grandchild, Ellery Mimms. Memorials may be
made to Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church, 1729
Stop Thirty Road, Hendersonville, TN 37075. Online
condolences may be submitted at familyheritagefh.
com Family Heritage Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
GEORGE “BUCK” TROUTT,
age 87 of Gallatin, passed away
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015. Funeral
Service will be Thursday, Nov.19
at 1 p.m. from the chapel of Alexander Funeral Home, with Pastor
Tim Rayborn officiating. Interment will follow at Dixon Springs
Cemetery, with grandsons, Christopher Troutt, Jason Troutt, Lance
Troutt, Brian Troutt, Charlie Craddock, and Richard
Craddock serving as pallbearers. Visitation will be
Nov. 19 from 11 a.m. until time of service. Mr. Troutt
was born Oct. 24, 1928 in Sumner County to the late
James Thomas Troutt and Norma Perry Troutt. In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by his first
wife and mother of his children, Willie D. Reed Troutt;
his second wife, Nanny Ruth Pryor Troutt; brothers,
Henry Troutt, Sonny Troutt, Hazel Troutt, and Wright
Troutt; and sister, Louise Thomas. He is survived
by, sons, Billy Troutt of Williston, Tenn. and Terry
Troutt (Sheva) of Hartsville; step-children, Ray Troutt
(Kathy) of Gallatin, Prentice Pryor of Pikeville, and
Sandra Lynn Crouch (Charles) of Bell Buckle; brother,
Donald Troutt of Bethpage; sister, Frances “Ted” Robinson (Henry) of Bethpage, 14 grandchildren; and 26
great-grandchildren. “Buck” retired from the Gallatin
Fire Department after 25 years of service. Online condolences may be submitted at alexander fh.info. Alexander Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Sumner EMA holding food drive
#SCHOOLS
Discussion could begin on yearround school calendar schedule
By SHERRY MITCHELL
The idea of having a year-round calendar schedule for Sumner County students could be looked into in the near
future. The matter was presented at
Tuesday night’s school board meeting
by board member Ted Wise, who said today’s current school system is outdated.
“When education came to be in this
country, it was scheduled around agriculture and around the need for young
help at home,” Wise said. “This is opposite from the way we should be now.”
Wise said in talking with Union Elementary STEM School Principal Danny Sullivan; the only Sumner school
currently on a year-round calendar
schedule with extended spring and fall
breaks; he believes the change would be
beneficial for students.
“I don’t think this next school year
is the time to make the change, but
I would like to seriously look at it for
the 2017-18 school year,” Wise said. “I
would like for us to adopt the Union
calendar for all of our schools.”
Wise said he felt if parents were given 12 months heads up, it could work.
Dr. Jennifer Brown, assistant director
of instruction, said the calendar committee had conducted surveys concerning the Union schedule for all Summer
schools and said,
“Overwhelming, the
group did not want
to do that.”
Dr. Del Phillips,
director of schools
said he has been
through this type of
change in other sys- Ted Wise
tems, with the end
result being good, but a lot of work required to reach that point.
“I think the (year-round) schedule
is fundamentally better for kiddos, but
it was the absolute hardest thing I ever
had to push through,” Phillips said.
“We can talk about it at the board level. My point is - after you look at it, it
is still a huge communication job with
parents and (staff). My experience has
been, they have been very resistant to
do it, but once we made the change, 90
percent love it.”
Phillips said the system could also
get some pushback from local daycares,
who currently schedule part-time help
during the summer months and holidays.
“I understand pushback - but they can
work through it,” Wise said. “I am absolutely convinced that our priorities are reSee SHOOLS on A13
Will be at Kroger
Marketplace
this weekend
By JOSH NELSON
The Sumner County Food Bank
will be holding a food drive at Kroger
Marketplace on Friday and Saturday
and they will be getting a little help
from some friends.
“EMA (Sumner County Emergency
Management Agency) will be there
with me with their boat,” said Pastor
James Gill, executive director of the
food bank. “It’s the ‘Fill a Boat’ program
and we’ll fill that boat up with food. We
give shoppers a slip with (needed) food
– it has tuna, peanut butter and jelly,
pasta sauce, pancake mix and syrup. It
helps Kroger out and it helps us.”
It is not the only help the food bank
is currently getting.
“Newton Nissan is doing a drive
right now,” Gill said. “Other places
do the same thing. These folks in
Sumner County have been so great
and so gracious to us. They appreciate what we do, and we appreciate
them helping us.
“A lot of people don’t believe
there are any hungry people in Sumner County, but there are,” he said.
“Guild (Elementary) School – 78 percent of their students are below poverty level. I just don’t like the thought
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
NOV. 19
*Key to the City’s Pinochle/
Hand and Foot gals are meeting from 10-2. Come play cards
and enjoy a potluck lunch! Lessons provided to those wanting to
learn. Playing cards is a great opportunity to spend the morning
having fun and learning. Guests
are welcome. For more information call Rose at 264-2029.
NOV. 20-22
*Pope John Paul II High School
presents Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare’s words will resonate in
this abstract representation of
a dystopian society under martial law. The performers will be
masked, save for Romeo and Juliet, mirroring social themes that
appear universal and timeless.
For something that is familiar
and unique come enjoy Pope John
Paul II High School’s production
of Romeo & Juliet on Nov. 20 and
21 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 22 at 2 p.m.
Adults $8, students $5. Tickets are
available at the door or online at:
http://jp2hs.ticketleap.com/romeojuliet.
NOV. 21
*Hendersonville Community
Church will be screening the doc-
umentary film “In Plain Sight”
at 6 p.m. with a panel question
and answer period. Free child
care will be available. The documentary opens the viewer’s eyes
to what’s happening down the
street “in plain sight”. Through
engaging interviews with numerous victims of sex trafficking, the
force, coercion, and deception of
the children and women becomes
apparent. For more information
contact Dusty Post at 615-4177655.
NOV. 27
*Post-Turkey Trot - Sumner
Trails Chapter of Tennessee Trails
Association will lead a walk on
the Hendersonville and Drakes
Creek Greenways to walk off
Thanksgiving dinner and enjoy
the outdoors, instead of Black Friday shopping. Meet at 10 a.m. at
the Hendersonville Library parking lot - no set distance is required
- do it all, or do a bit. For further
info contact Sally at daytrippersal@gmail.com.
NOV. 29
*Lighting of the city’s Christmas tree; 3 to 7 p.m. at Memorial
Park. Food, live music and carriage rides.
DEC. 5
*Cummins Falls State Park Sumner Trails Chapter of Tennessee Trails Association will lead a
2 mile hike in one of Tennessee›s
newest state parks. Rates easy to
moderate, we will walk the Overlook Trail and part of the Downstream Trail. Boots, hiking poles
and appropriate weather gear are
advised. Meet at First Presbyterian Church in Hendersonville at
9 a.m. for carpooling. For further
info contact Sally at daytrippersal@gmail.com.
DEC. 29
*Sumner Trails Chapter of Tennessee Trails Association -Stones
River Greenway - 3 miles, easy.
This paved trail starts at the Wave
Pool parking lot off Briley Parkway and ends at the Kohl’s Shopping Center on Lebanon Road.
This greenway more or less follows the Cumberland and Stones
rivers and features a nice pastoral
section and a pedestrian bridge
over the Stones River right before it flows into the Cumberland.
Meet at First Presbyterian Church
in Hendersonville at 9 a.m. for
carpooling. For further info contact Al at ballallenger@aol.com.
of a hungry child.”
The food bank, which started in
May of 2009, gave enough food for
252,000 meals from May of last year
to May of this year, according to Gill.
“We’re serving somewhere in the
neighborhood of 24,000 people a year,”
he said. “There are repeats...probably
about 8,000 we feed consistently. We
see anywhere from 35 to 50 new families a month for a variety of reasons –
they lost their jobs from downsizing,
their hours are cut, all kinds of reasons.
“The greatest thing that can happen is us lock that front door and
we’re not needed anymore, but I
know that’s not going to happen,”
he said. “The Bible says the poor will
always be with you, and so I’m very
thankful for the help of the people of
Sumner County.
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Student collecting
coats, hats, gloves
By NOAH KIMBROUGH
The Bison Hat Trick Project is a community service project founded in 2009
by my brother, Tucker Kimbrough,
during his junior year at Station Camp
High School. The goal of this project
was to provide new and gently used
hats, coats, and gloves for local middle school students in need and their
families. When Tucker graduated from
Station Camp High School in 2011, I
took over the project. The Bison Hat
Trick Project has been fortunate to
receive enough donations to expand to
providing thousands of hats, coats, and
gloves to entire families.
In the past, the BHTP has worked
with Station Camp High School and
Knox Doss Middle School at Drakes
Creek. This year, we are adding Dr.
William Burrus Elementary School to
our network. We look forward to making this the most successful year for the
BHTP.
If you would like to donate any new
or gently used hats, coats (including
hoodies and jackets), or gloves, you
may drop them off in the front offices
of Station Camp High School or Knox
Doss Middle School at Drakes Creek.
I would like to thank you in advance
Noah Kimbrough’s Bison Hat Trick project is
helping students stay warm this winter.
Submitted.
Athletic Revolution
offering athletes ages 1018 unparalleled training
From Staff Reports
for your generous donations.
Noah Kimbrough is a senior at Station
Camp High School
Although Athletic Revolution of
Hendersonville has only been open
for two months, their members are already seeing phenomenal results.
“It’s always fun to see how excited
the parents get when they tell us other
parents are starting to ask what their
child is doing differently.” Josh England, owner, said. “But we know
we are succeeding when our athletes
come in and push themselves every
opportunity they get because they recognize how much better they are. It is
something that is better to experience
than hear us talk about.”
When you first walk into Athletic
Revolution you are greeted by the parents of the athletes in what has been
termed the “player’s lounge,” a comfortable space with amenities for parents to relax while their child is hard at
work. Greg, owner of the in house college recruiting firm (First Look), can
be found along with Wil, sports masseuse, mingling and cutting up with
parents between sessions. As you exit
right out of the “player’s lounge”, you
begin to see what makes this place
special.
Immediately outside the door you
found yourself facing a fully stocked
weight room that could rival some of
the high schools in the area. To your
left you find 2,500 square feet of artificial grass with sleds, harnesses, plyoboxes, ladders, and hurdles stacked
neatly along the wall, ready for use.
Here is also where you find Coach
Willhite, head coach and programming coordinator. Josh, a seven year
Marine with the credentials and accreditations to be a Division 1 Strength
and Conditioning Coach, is locked in
on every athlete on the floor. The passion and knowledge he brings into this
facility is unrivaled. Coach Willhite is
the best trainer of youth athletes in
middle Tennessee, and he calls Athletic Revolution home.
The energy in this facility is electric.
The trust the parents have in this program is unprecedented. The athletes
walk into this facility hungry to sweat,
strain, and push themselves to their
max. And at the end of every session,
you see proof that Hendersonville
needs this program. Parents smiling;
proud of their athlete. Coaches smiling and bragging on each athlete to
their parent as they walk out of the
door. Most importantly, you watch
sweaty, tired, and sore young athletes
walk out with a pat on the back from
the coaches and an enormous smile on
their faces, ready to do it again tomorrow.
Athletic Revolution of Hendersonville has the lofty goal of raising the
level of athleticism in the Hendersonville area. In two months they have
proven it can be done. If your athlete
has dreams of being more than they
are now, you owe your child a visit to
Athletic Revolution.
Call anytime at (615) 330-2098 or
visit www.arhendersonville.com
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Karen Holmes and Rachel Collins
Dr. Babb and Hilary Marabeti
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Cassie Morren, Paul R Goode, president Hendersonville Chamber of
Commerce, and Amanda Foster.
From Staff Reports
The 2015 nominees for the Women Impacting
the Community event were:
Professional: Sam Barnett, The Sesler Agency;
Christy Hale, Brown’s Florist; Darlene Rawls,
McCloud’s Lawn and Landscape Services; JJ Von
Kessel, The UPS Store.
Non-Profit/Civic Organization: Christi Anglea, City of Hendersonville Parks Department;
Susan Johnson, Habitat for Humanity of Sumner
County; Sibyl Reagan, Strong Schools; Lt. Janel
Rogan, Hendersonville Police Department.
Education: Ashley Aldridge, Jack Anderson
Elementary; Karen Mitchell, Volunteer State
Community College; Dede Pinson, Merrol Hyde
Magnet School; Lile Rogers, Hendersonville
High School.
Healthcare: Dr. Tamie Babb, Bluegrass OB/
GYN; Dr. Gina Mendoza DPM, PC Mendoza Podiatry; Dr. Jennifer Moore, Tennessee Pediatrics;
Amy Raines, Park Place Retirement Community.
Young Professional: Kara Brumley, Modern
Babies & Children; Angie DeGuira, Simmons
Bank; Lindsay McMillian, United Way of Sumner County; Stephanie Taylor, Windham Professionals.
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Centerstone receives $2M grant to aid low-income veterans and their families
From Staff Reports
Centerstone, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit
behavioral health care providers, received a renewal of a $2
million grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
The grant will fund the fourth
year of the not-for-profit’s successful Supportive Services for
Veteran Families (SSVF), which
aids very low-income veterans
and their families in transitioning to permanent housing.
Centerstone provides eligible
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assistance—and helps in obtaining VA and other benefits. It also
offers time-limited payments to
third parties, from landlords to
utility companies, in order to
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stay in or acquire permanent
housing on a sustainable basis.
Reaching 40 Middle Tennessee
and Southern Kentucky counties,
including Sumner County, this
service and the grants that fund
it are part of the VA’s and Center-
stone’s collaborative efforts to end
homelessness among veterans.
Last year, SSVF exceeded goals
by 40 percent, serving 561 veter-
ans and their families. The SSVF
team at Centerstone launched in
2011 with a smaller footprint and
operating budget but has grown
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1,300 veterans and their families.
“Under the VA’s ‘Housing First’ policy, Centerstone’s
SSVF team has taken a holistic,
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re-housing and homelessness
prevention,” said SSVF outreach specialist Daniel Ward.
“In tandem with their clients,
our case managers work to create stability plans that provide
a pathway toward housing permanency, and assist our veterans to successfully return to the
society they served.”
SSVF is a vital component
of Centerstone’s work toward
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Eagles end Commandos season
Coach Bruce Hatfield talks to his Commandos.
Sophomore Anthony Hughes celebrates after a Hendresonville touchdown.
By ADAM BROWN
THOMPSON’S
STATION
-- Commando faithful learned
firsthand last Friday night that
the only thing better than an
Independence High School offense is an Independence High
School defense.
Hendersonville was limited
to 180 yards of total offense in
Friday night’s 38-7 loss to undefeated Independence. That
number comes on the heels of a
335 yard rushing night in their
43-20 opening round win against
Shelbyville the week before.
”They are as good as advertised,” Hendersonville head
coach Bruce Hatfield said after the game. “We congratulate them and wish them well.
They are a great football team
and are to be commended.”
In the last two seasons, the
Commandos have eliminated
the Eagles from the postseason.
Last Friday night, the roles
were reversed.
Much of the Eagles’ offensive success came from senior
quarterback Andrew Bunch.
Bunch finished the night 20of-31 for 331 yards and three
touchdowns. The senior field
general added another 100
yards on the ground with 18 attempts and one score.
It didn’t take Bunch long to
find his groove.
After taking the opening possession and generating just one
first down on a Terrell Carter
20-yard run, the Commandos
were forced to punt. Carter led
the Commandos with 11 rushing attempts for 56 yards.
Independence took possession at their 21-yard line. Eight
plays later, they were on the
board. Bunch connected with
Nate Johnson on a 21-yard pass
with 6:07 to play in the first
quarter. Johnson led the Eagles
with nine receptions and 163
yards. Grayson Pantall added
the extra point to give the Eagles an early 7-0 lead.
Senior Mike Harris managed a 17-yard gain for a first
down on the Commandos second possession, but from there,
the Eagle defense stiffened and
Hendersonville once again was
forced to punt.
Seven plays and 75 yards
later, Independence increased
their lead to 14-0. Bunch scooted his way into the end zone
from four yards away with 1:19
DON MCPEAK / www.skippy. smugmug.com
Malik Kinnard takes down Andrew Bunch.
to play in the opening quarter.
Following a Hendersonville
three-and-out on their next
possession, the Eagles extended their lead for a third time.
Pantall connected on a 28-yard
field goal with 8:10 to play in
the second quarter.
Hendersonville had something going late in the first half
but quarterback Brett Coker was
intercepted by Montray Steele
at the three yard line to end the
Commandos scoring threat.
“We tried some things to try
to slow them down,” Hatfield
added. “They are very physical in addition to being able to
throw the football down the
field. We knew that we would
have our work cut out for us
moving the football against
their defense. They are good.
They have done a good job.”
Hendersonville forced a
turnover on the opening possession of the second half. Reggie
Harris recovered a Bunch fumble to give the Commandos the
ball near midfield. Nine plays
later, Coker connected with
sophomore Anthony Hughes
for a 23 yard touchdown with
5:38 to play in the third quarter.
Jacob Harris added the extra
Weston Schwerdt forces an Andrew Bunch fumble.
point to make it 17-7.
From there, it was all Eagles
as Independence scored 21 unanswered points.
“It wasn’t meant for us tonight but it doesn’t mean that
I think any less of our kids
and what they have done for
our high school,” Hatfield
said. “We were close on a lot
of plays. They just made the
plays. I felt like the game was
a little bit closer than the score
indicated.”
Hendersonville concludes
the season 10-2 overall for the
second consecutive season.
“I am very proud of our young
men and our coaches,” Hatfield
added. “It ends poorly for everybody but one. I am proud of our
guys for their season. 10-2 season
back to back is not too bad.”
Hendersonville graduates
25 seniors.
“This group of seniors listened,” Hatfield concluded.
“They led. I hope everyone has
been paying attention. I think
that we do have potential in
the future. We look forward to
that.”
Rodrick Napper jumps through a Hillsboro tackle.
JOHN DECKER / Hendersonville Standard
BEECH
From A1
burst through the line and ran 47
yards for a touchdown with 2:01
left in the first quarter.
Beech shanked a punt early in
the second quarter, giving Hillsboro prime
me field position. On third
and long,, Murphy found Javonta
Payton open
pen for a screen pass and
Payton did
id the rest. The junior
wide receiver
eiver weaved his way into
the end zone from 40 yards out
to give Hillsboro a commanding
20-0 lead.. Beech’s Michael Iacob dove in front of the
kick and blocked the
extra point.
nt.
“They played
extremely
y well
on both sides
of the ball.
We made
de
a lot of
mistakess
e a r l y
and they
w e r e
able to
Devin Smith
c a p i ahead of
talize,”
C r a b t r e e the Burros
defense.
said.
Beech’s
Ty Dean made a diving interception
eption with
7:33 left in
n the second
quarter. The Buccaneers offense showed
signs of life
fe for the first
time in the
he contest. Senior Rodrick
rick Napper
found a hole for a 28yard gain.
n. Quarterback Nelson
son Smith hit
Devin Smith
mith for a 13-yard
Rodrick Napper and Chris Peach combine on a tackle for loss.
gain. Ian Hafner picked up a first
down with a nine yard run. However, Napper was unable to convert a fourth down run and Beech
turned the ball over on downs.
Hill made the Bucs pay. Hill
rushed past defenders and dashed
to the end zone for an 87-yard
touchdown. The Burros held a 27-0
lead with 3:06 left in the first half.
Beech appeared to be driving just
before halftime but Smith was picked
off by Hillsboro junior Jon Beets to
end the threat. The Burros finished
the first half with 260 yards of offense
and held a 27-0 lead.
Murphy and Hillsboro
continued
their air attack in
the second half.
Murphy hit Deandre Alexanderr for
a 33-yard
gain
on
another
s c r e e n
pass. Murphy then went
over the top to
find Fleming
for a 43 yard
touchdown.
Jay King danced
his way into the
end zone for a
two-point conversion, extending the lead to
35-0. The TSSSAA
mercy rule went into
effect, allowing the
game clock to run.
The Burros final score
of the night came via a 26yard run by sophomore running back Tyler Neal with 8:34
left in the game.
Smith tossed a 34 yard pass
to Hafner, who made an impressive catch along the sideline. That
set up a seven yard Beech touchdown run by Napper. The senior
lowered his shoulder and smashed
into the end zone to keep the Bucs
from being shut out. Senior Adam
Edwards added the extra point, but
Hillsboro closed out the victory
minutes later.
Napper led Beech with 117 rushing yards on 17 attempts. Murphy
passed for three touchdowns and
163 yards for the Burros, while
Hill led Hillsboro
with 113 rushing
H
yards on nine
attempts.
n
Despite the loss, Crabtree was
able to put
pu the season in perspective. The head coach mentioned
that the team
tea had great attitude and
effort as of
o recent weeks. The turning point of
o the season was the Cane
Ridge game,
gam according to Crabtree.
“(Cane Ridge) scored right after
halftime to extend their lead to 21-7.
They drove down and got the ball inv yard line. But they did
side the five
W scored on the next the
not score. We
ma it 21-14 and we went on
play to make
to win the game,” Crabtree said.
Auston and Alex Vanzant left
the Cane Ridge game at halftime
to be with their ailing mother, who
aw
passed away
the next morning.
t comeback win and a
Between the
tragic loss, Crabtree says the team’s
ch
outlook changed.
“From that point forward we
were a different football team. Our
guys believed
belie
in themselves and
pulled it together,”
to
Crabtree said.
The Buccaneers
Buc
finished the 2015
season wi
with an 8-4 record. Beech
graduates 17 seniors including Auston Vanzan
Vanzant, Napper, and Hafner.
Hillsboro (9-3) will travel to InHillsbor
dependence (12-0) to face the undependenc
Eagles on Friday night in the
beaten Eag
quarterfinals
na of the TSSAA playoffs.
Nelson Smith delivers under heavy Hillsboro pressure.
Lady Bucs begin season
with some missing pieces
Ashley Conner
Callen Jolly
Deja Smith
Destiny Tinker
Gracie Hines
Joslyn Brinkley
Kendra Mueller
Kennedy Powell
Lexi Cook
McCall Decker
Reese Taylor
Savannah Garratt
By ADAM BROWN
The Beech High School Lady
Buccaneers basketball team
will begin the 2015-16 season
without one of its most important pieces.
Head Coach Kari Douglas,
who will become a first-time
mother in early January, just
received orders from her doctor to take off the season. Her
doctor does not want Douglas
to deal with the possibility of
increased blood-pressure that
accompanies coaching a high
school basketball team.
In the meantime, Troy Carnes
will serve as interim coach and as-
sistant Lauran Hudgins will serve
as junior varsity head coach.
“I don’t think they will miss a
beat,” Douglas said. “The team
is in good hands. I don’t have
any reservations or hesitations.
They know what to do. They
have been around the program.
They know how we play and
what we do.”
In addition to the loss of
Douglas, the Lady Bucs will be
ielding one of the least experienced teams in recent history.
“We will be an inexperienced
basketball team this season,” Douglas said. “Outside of Deja (Smith)
and Reese (Taylor) we don’t have
considerable varsity time.”
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Youth Soccer
crowns 10U
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Ivory Coast won the Hendersonville Soccer 10U championship on Thursday, Nov. 5 with a 2-1 victory over Portugal. The game was decided by penalty kicks. Members
of the Ivory Coast team front row from left: Dottie Watterson, Elizabeth Marshall, Presley MacWilliams, Sarah
Hull, Annie Gould, Allie Haddon, Maggie Gould, Sophie
Robison and Evie Tippets. Back row from left: coaches
Katie Hull and Michael Hull.
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The Lady Buccaneers were
dealt a double blow when both
Lexi Cook and Jordan Mueller
suffered off-season ACL tears
that will sideline them for the
entire season.
“Those are two voids that
were big pieces to our puzzle
a year ago,” Douglas said. “Not
having those two is going to hurt
us a lot. They were the heart and
soul of our team.”
Mueller will remain on the
roster and work as a student assistant.
“Jordan is the vocal leader of
this team,” Douglas said. “She
will be that person that will ill a
role on this team that will work
to make sure everyone is on the
same page.”
Douglas said McCall Decker
and Joslyn Brinkley will need
to play big roles this season.
“McCall and Joslyn played
last year but it was very little,”
Douglas said. “They played late
in games when we were either
ahead or losing by a considerable amount. They are going to
have to step up this season.”
Savannah Jarratt is stepping
in as a sophomore.
“She is stepping into a role
but we don’t really know what
that role is right now,” Douglas
said. “We are still trying to igure
things out as a team. We don’t
Alex Newman
have an identity right now.”
Beech inished the 2014 season with an opening round loss
to Hendersonville in the District
9-AAA tournament. The Lady
Bucs compiled an overall record
of 12-16.
Balanced Bucs ready
for big season
A.J. Robertson
Benjamin Buhrow
Caleb Walton
Joel Littlepage
Justin Penterost
Nelson Smith
Devin Smith
Drake Sanson
Jake Butler
Nick Diaz
Noah Chatman
T.J. Downing
By ADAM BROWN
Joines said. “It is very exciting.
The thing that I like about our
team this year, and it’s not like
we haven’t had this in the past
few seasons, but I think everyone knows their role.
“When you have a group of
younger guys, as many as we
have, they tend to look toward
those older guys and follow
their lead. This is not a situation where they think they have
to do more to make this team
successful. They understand
that if they do their part(s), this
team will succeed.”
With the football season ending, Devin Smith, Ty Dean and
Nelson Smith have rejoined
the basketball team. Dean is
expected to play point guard
though Joines said the team will
not be as reliant on their guard
play as in year’s past.
“I think that most people
would say that traditionally we
are pretty guard orientated,”
Joines said. “We have given the
point guard a lot of freedom.
It’s not like we won’t be doing
that this year, but I think that
we are really a post first team.
If people don’t guard us inside,
we are going to score.”
Expected to give the Bucs
some valuable minutes off the
bench are sophomore guard
A.J. Robertson, junior forward
Heath Pentecost and junior
guard T.J. Downing.
“Those guys will be invaluable to us throughout the season,” Joines said. “We will depend on their ability to give us
some minutes off the bench in
order for us to be successful.”
Defensively, the Bucs will be
in a familiar front.
“The 1-3-1 will be, as it has
been in the past, our staple. I
Bowling round-up – HHS and JPII
Griffin (581), Braydon Satterfield (552), Maxey (525), Brandon Paul (525) and Tim Smith
(485).
Griffin, Paul, Sparks and Satterfield picked up three points
each, Smith earned two and
Maxey got one.
Alexander Horton had the
high game (178) and series (469)
for Merrol Hyde and earned
While losing three seniors
and a junior guard from last
years’ team will hurt the Beech
High School Buccaneers basketball team in 2015-16, there
are plenty of reasons to expect
the Bucs will be just fine moving forward.
The biggest is because of
their three seniors, Devin
Smith, Noah Chatman and
Ben Buhrow. Over the past
few seasons, the trio has seen
a considerable amount of playing time and will lead the way.
“They have really stepped
up,” Beech boys’ basketball
coach Darrin Joines said. “They
have always had the capability
of doing that, and Noah has been
over the past several years, but
this season they have begun to
become those leaders you want
to have on a basketball team.”
Joines said he is expecting
big things from Buhrow.
“Ben is a little bit of an unknown commodity but I am
telling you right now, Ben can
play. He is one of the most
versatile guys in the league.
People know him now but they
don’t know him like they are
going to know him at the end
of the season.”
The year’s team will be without Derrick Wilcox and Sawyer Taylor, both District 9-AAA
All-District team selections a
season ago. Wilcox graduated
while Taylor transferred to Station Camp.
Joines said there will be a
different dynamic this season.
“This is probably unique in
all the years that I have coached;
we have a really neat mix of seniors and really young guys,”
Ty Dean
think that it is pretty obvious,
but the way we play will be a
little difficult for some at times,”
Joines said. “We will be making
people shoot over us a lot. We
may not be as quick as we have
been over the past few years but
we will definitely be bigger.”
Beech finished the 2014-15
season with a 17-11 record. The
Bucs’ season ended in the District
9-AAA Tournament quarterfinal
round with a loss to Gallatin.
#BOWLING
From STAFF REPORTS
The Hendersonville Commandos boys bowling team
remained undefeated in District 12 play with victories over
Merrol Hyde and Wilson Cen-
tral over the past week.
HHS (14-1, 12-0 District 12)
is now ranked second in the
state according to Tennessee
Prep Bowling behind Walker
Valley out of Cleveland, TN.
Last Thursday the Comman-
dos beat Merrol Hyde, 24-3,
winning total pinfall by 1,031
pins.
Joey Maxey rolled the high
game (254) and Storm Sparks
had the high series (618). He
was followed by Chandler
two points. Robert Schickling
rolled a 170 and Davis Kendrick a 158. Cole Shiner picked
up the other point for the
Hawks.
Merrol Hyde is now 1-10 on
the season.
The girls match was closer
but it was still the Commandos
See BOWLING on A22
#MSBASKETBALL
Bison boys dominate
visitors from Hawkins
Hayden Baldwin flushes home a two-handed
dunk.
ADAM BROWN / Hendersonville Standard
By ADAM BROWN
Zak Oden goes up for a basket.
Kyle Winter secures a rebound.
Adam Brown / Hendersonville Standard
Tim Lark looks for an outlet.
By ADAM BROWN
GALLATIN -- The Station Camp
Middle School boys’ basketball team
jumped out to a six point first quarter lead and watched the advantage
grow all game in a 50-22 victory over
Hawkins Middle School Monday night.
“The last week or so of practice we
have focused on taking what is available
and not forcing the issue,” Station Camp
head coach Jeremy Bartlett said. “Our
shooting percentages were down and
now we are looking to take the best shot
instead of the first shot that comes open.”
Station Camp pulled ran out to
an 11-5 lead in the first period. Alex
Vaughn led the Bison with four points
in the first quarter while Jordan Zuger
and James Bundy were the only scorers
for the Commandos.
Station Camp held the Commandos
to just two points in the second quarter,
a bucket by Issiah Chandler He finished with six points.
Meanwhile, the Bison added to their
Issiah Chandler drives to the basket.
advantage as Chase Burns and Jermaine Holt posted three points apiece.
Holt ended the night with ten points.
“I thought that we got out in transition,” Bartlett said. “I thought we
played good half-court defense.”
Vaughn led the charge in the third quarter scoring 11 of Station Camp’s 17 points.
He finished with a game high 15 points.
With a comfortable lead in tow, the Bison emptied the bench in the final period.
“It is always nice to get some of
those other guys in the ball game late,”
Bartlett said. “Any experience is good
thing in the early part of the season.”
For the Bison, Trey Moore had five
points, Austin Parker and Rahkilon
Williams added four apiece, Kyle Winter posted three and Michael Bannister, Cameron Stephens and Tim Lark
each had two points.
Zuger led the Commandos with
eight points. Hays Pfaffman had three,
Jalen House and Bundy each had two
and David Johnson rounded out the
scoring for Hawkins with one point.
GALLATIN -- Eleven. That’s the
number of three-point baskets the
Station Camp Bison drained in their
season home-opener against Hunters
Lane Tuesday night.
Led by Beech transfer Sawyer Taylor, the Bison rolled to a 78-56 win.
Taylor dropped in three three-point
baskets in the first quarter and six overall to lead the Bison with 18 points.
“We shot it well tonight,” Station
Camp head coach Seth
Massey said. “I thought
we moved thee ball
around pretty well
and found the open
man. We had some
pretty good looks.”
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second quarter.
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Peyton Anderson and Dotson each
had baskets. The Bison lead grew to
49-23 by halftime.
To start the third quarter, pointguard Chase Freeman tossed a pass
into the post for Yalen Reed and Reed
sent it home with a two-handed dunk.
Reed followed the dunk with a threepointer. He had 10 points.
By the end of the third quarter, the
Bison lead had ballooned to 72-36.
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but I am pretty pleased
please with the defensive effort,” Massey said. “Hunters
Lane is pretty well-co
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Bison in season opener
Linze Edwards goes up for two.
By ADAM BROWN
GALLATIN--Station Camp opened
the season on Tuesday night and rolled
to a 68-36 win over Hunters Lane.
Hunters Lane was limited to just 10
points throughout the first two periods of play. The win was the first for
interim head coach Jill Gregory.
Gregory was named interim coach
after longtime coach Kendra Jackson
underwent stem-cell transplant surgery
as a part of her battle with a rare form of
skin cancer. Though Jackson was not on
the bench for the Lady Bison, she was in
the stands cheering on her team.
Jackson and Gregory saw their
Lady Bison sink 10, three-point baskets, including five consecutive in the
second quarter by Jane Deason, Carol
Finch and Jessica Hopson. Deason
and Hopson each had two in the second quarter and finished with 11 and
eight points respectively.
“We are very capable of shooting
threes,” Gregory said after the win. A
total of five different Lady Bison sank
three-pointers throughout the game.
“It is pretty spread out,” Gregory said.
Coach Kendra Jackson applauds from
the upper-deck as the starting lineup for
her Lady Bison is announced at Tuesday
night’s season home-opener against Hunters Lane.
Emiline Payne heads toward the rim.
“We have several girls that are fully
capable of knocking those down.”
Station Camp took a 35-10 lead into
the halftime locker room.
While they shot very well from the
perimeter, Linze Edwards was equally dominant in the post. The junior
finished the game with a game high
18 points.
“I knew that she had the potential
to do that,” Gregory. “She hadn’t
played a full varsity game before. The
girls had confidence in her and she
came through.”
The Lady Bison began the third
quarter much like they finished the
second. Emiline Payne drove to the
basket for a bucket, Edwards sank a
shot and Pray Ward added another to
move the Bison out in front, 41-17, to
begin the fourth period.
“We always say that in the first two
minutes of the third quarter, you don’t
want to come out flat,” Gregory said.
“It doesn’t matter what the score is, you
want to win those first two minutes.”
The fourth period was much of the
same.
Cassidy Fry sank a three-pointer
and secured a steal and a bucket to
begin the quarter on a 5-0 run. The
latter gave Station Camp a 30-point
advantage, 51-21. Sydney Creager
and Finch each nailed three pointers
to extend the Bison lead.
“They changed some things around
on us,” Gregory said. “We know that
people are going to do that because
everyone knows that we press the
ball. The girls responded well. I am
very pleased with how disciplined the
girls were.”
Deason drained 11 points, Hopson
ended the game with eight, Fry had
seven, Finch and Payne each finished
with six, Ward and Creager had five
apiece and Olivia Delk rounded out
the scoring with two points.
By ZACH WOMBLE
PORTLAND -- The Portland and
Pope John Paul II girls basketball teams
tipped off the season Tuesday in a Hall
of Fame game at Portland. The Panthers
used a second half surge to take a 52-37
victory.
“We want to play the toughest competition we can,” said first year JPII
head coach Angi Puckett. “We want to
play tough competition early so that
we know what we need to work on. We
played with a lot of heart. We were getting open looks, they just were not able
to knock them down.”
Portland jumped out to a 23-17 lead
at the half thanks in large part to the
Lady Panthers’ ability to break down
the Lady Knights’ press.
“We just wanted to create better pressure on the ball,” said Puckett. “We really wanted to deny the ball and cut them
off in the paint.”
Coming out of the locker room, JPII
made their run to cut the lead to just
two before a Portland time out.
The game was tied at 25 after Windee
Johnson scored for JPII but Portland responded with a 9-1 run at the end of the
third period to take control of the game.
The Panthers stayed hot in the final
quarter opening with a 6-0 run. Cristina Herrera, who scored 17 points for
the Lady Panthers, led the charge and
Windee Johnson shoots for two on the baseline. Johnson has committed to Spring Hill
College in Mobile, AL.
ZACH WOMBLE / Hendersonville Standard
after back-to-back buckets by Herrera
and Mackenzie Trouten, PHS led by 20
points.
“We play again on Saturday,” said
Puckett. “It will give us a chance to work
out some of the things that we didn’t do
well against Portland.”
The Lady Knights will take on Middle Tennessee Christian as well as Oakland.
“Those will be tough match ups,”
continued Puckett. “They will make us
better and prepare us for our district
games.”
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Hendersonville High School basketball standout Carleigh Short signed her national letter of
intent to continue her basketball career collegiately at Lipscomb University. Pictured with
Short are Heather Short, John Short, Austin Short, Bob Cotter, Drew Johnson, Kim Coyle and
Ron Sarver.
Hendersonville High School golf standout Meghann Stamps signed her national letter of intent to continue her golfing career collegiately at Austin Peay State University. Pictured with
Stamps are Kerrey Stamps, Greg Stamps, Jim Bundy, Norma Bundy, Chris Bundy and Janice
Bundy.
Hendersonville High School golf standout Austin Lancaster signed his national letter of intent to continue his golfing career collegiately at Austin Peay State University. Pictured with
Lancaster are Paul Eichman, Sherry Lancaster, Chis Lancaster, David Tucker and Andy Gilley.
Hendersonville High School baseball standout Will Wacaser signed his national letter of intent to continue his baseball career collegiately at Austin Peay State University. Pictured
with Wacaser are Randy Wacaser, Jennifer Smith, Elizabeth Wacaser, Andy Gilley, Mike Hendrix and Clay Sanders.
Hendersonville High School baseball standout Grant Williams signed his national letter of
intent to continue his baseball career collegiately at Middle Tennessee State University. Pictured with Williams are Maryann Williams, Harrison Williams, Andy Gilley, Mike Hendrix and
Clay Sanders.
Hendersonville High School softball standout Hannah Thompson signed her national letter of
intent to continue her softball career collegiately at Austin Peay State University. Pictured
with Thompson are Kristen Littlefield, Brett Littlefield, Carter Thompson, Neil Kemp, Ron Sarver, Mike Raper, Anthony Stratton and Bob Cotter.
Beech High School softball standout Ashley
Graves signed her national letter of intent to
continue her softball career collegiately at
Union University. Pictured with Graves are J.B.
Graves Paula Graves, Jeff Graves, Joan Graves,
Brenda Flatt, Paul Flatt, Kenneth Powell, Erica
Powell, Monica Braswell, Greg Hammer, Royce
Fentress, Denise Defevors and Kelly Willhite.
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who came out on top, 18-9.
Jaycie Russum 150 (406)
and Michaela Moore 171 (404)
led the way. Alisha Kauffman
rolled a 142 and Madisen Dove
had a 140. Moore earned three
points, Dove and Cheyenne
Hill had two each and Russum
and Kauffman both had one.
Macayla Forsyth had the
high game (155) and series
@Hville_Standard
(448) for the Lady Hawks and
won all three of her individual matches. Maddie Harlin
bowled a 150 and Tyler Grant
a 126 plus a point. Rebecca
White added three points and
Madeline Collins had one.
The Lady Hawks are now
3-7 on the season.
On Tuesday night, the Hendersonville boys defeated Wilson Central, 21-6.
Wyatt Patterson led the way
this time with the high series
(624) while Griffin had the high
game (231). Satterfield had a
592 series followed by Smith
(576) and Sparks (563).
The girls lost 21-6 to the first
place Lady Wildcats.
Moore had the high game
(171) and series (428) and picked
up three points for the Lady
Commandos. Russum 156 (420)
got a point as did Kauffmann,
who rolled a 160, Mary Grace
Bastin (144) and Hill a (140).
Hendersonville is now 8-7
(8-3 District 12) on the season.
The Commandos will take
on Beech Thursday and Mt. Juliet Monday before the Thanks-
giving break.
JPII bowlers drop pair to
Father Ryan
The Pope John Paul II
Knights bowling teams both
lost to Father Ryan Tuesday
night.
The boys dropped their
match, 18-9.
Quinn Collins earned three
points for the Knights and also
had the team’s high game (206)
and series (561).
Ian Dillick followed with a
173 (496).
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JPII is now 1-8.
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Sarah Gould led JPII with a
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Kathleen McLoud rolled a
personal best 144 and earned a
point.
Karen Gao picked up two
points and Mandy Hua, Olivia
Zimmer and Skyler CarsonReynolds (128) each picked up
a point.
The Lady Knights are now
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Second half comeback
propels Lady Commandos
Traci Austin looks for an open teammate.
By ADAM BROWN
GALLATIN -- Hawkins used a
strong second half performance to
overcome a halftime deficit and defeat
Station Camp, 43-35, Monday night.
The Lady Commandos outscored the
Bison 17-4 in the third quarter to grab a
38-31 lead and control of the game.
“We weren’t playing our game,”
Hawkins head coach Elyse Webb said
of her team’s performance in the first
half. “Our focus is on defense so we
had to shift our focus.”
Deshiya Hoosier led the Lady
Commandos comeback and had a
game high 26 points. Hoosier had 11
points in the third quarter, including a
three-point play, to give the Commandos a 36-29 lead late in the period.
“Their pressure in the second half
was really tough for my girls to adjust
to,” Station Camp head coach Geoff
Combs said.
Station Camp’s Faith Eubank
drained the last basket of the third
quarter to draw the Bison within seven, 38-31. Eubank led the Bison with
22 points.
Deshiya Hoosier goes up for an easy bucket.
“We had a lot of production out of
Eubank and Ty Holt but we need a lot
more from others,” Combs said. “We
only had seven points combined that
came from other players aside Faith
and Ty. We have to find those other
pieces in order to be successful.” Holt
finished the game with six points.
Hawkins held on for the win in the
low scoring fourth quarter.
“We challenged them to do a lot of
different things,” Webb said. “They
had to communicate and they responded better than I could have
asked. I am pleased with the way we
handled the ball down the stretch.
The more we are in those situations,
the better we will become.”
Station Camp jumped out to a 12-8
after the first quarter. Eubank netted
10 of the first 12 points for the Lady Bison. Traci Austin scored the only other basket for Station Camp in the first
quarter - she had a four point night.
Deanna McFadgon had three
points for the Lady Bison.
For Hawkins, Janaeya Mayes had
nine points, Kelci Wilks had six and
Macy Thomas finished with two.
From A6
in creating the Office of Open Records
Counsel was carried out in this situation. Was the Open Records Counsel
able to, as the law instructs, “assist with
the resolution of issues concerning the
open records law” in a way that could
have helped a Sumner County school
district avoid huge legal bills? If not,
why not?
I don’t know the answer. But considering the expense and angst of this case,
it might be worth asking the question.
Was this an issue that truly needed to
go to court?
What we do know is that the school
district spent about $83,000 through
February on the case, and still hasn’t
gotten the bills for nine months of work,
including work during the trial. Jakes
said he has spent more than $10,000 on
his attorney. The court and court staff
have spent several days on it, and school
officials involved in the case have spent
many paid work hours related to the
defense. The cost has been enormous.
So what should we take away from
the judge’s ruling?
Most important, the justice system
worked. Judge Gay considered the
facts of the situation and applied the
law. The independence of the judiciary
is an important feature of our government and those who think you can’t get
a fair shake by a local judge in a public
records case against a local government
entity where connections are thick were
wrong. Judge Gay upheld the law in regard to the school district’s illegal public records practices and took what may
be an unpopular action against people
he probably knows in favor of someone
he doesn’t from another county.
Gay’s order only applies to Sumner
County, but it’s a message that will be
heard across the state. I’ve already seen
one other school board policy in Middle
Tennessee which bans public records requests by email. They should get rid of it.
As executive director of a nonprofit
organization that promotes open government through better education, I would
have liked to have seen Jakes compensated for his attorney’s fees. Not because
the taxpayers of Sumner County deserve
to lose any more on this case than they already have. But because, in Tennessee, it is
so hard to enforce the law. The citizen has
to do it through a lawsuit, and the government, whether or right or wrong, can use
seemingly unlimited taxpayer money to
fight it. Changes were put in place in 2008
to improve compliance through other
means, but in this case, they did not work.
We should not stop investing in safeguards and education to protect open
government. But in the end, Kenneth L.
Jakes vs. Sumner County Board of Education demonstrates how citizens must
be the ultimate watchdog.
Deborah Fisher is executive director
of Tennessee Coalition for Open Government. She can be reached through
the organization’s website at www.
tcog.info.
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requirements and later said,
“We no longer live in a Pony
Express world.”
Plaintiff was pleased
Jakes said he was “very
pleased by the outcome.”
“This ruling today just
doesn’t protect Ken Jakes – it
protects everybody,” he said.
Jakes added while Sumner
County residents should be
happy about the ruling, they
should be upset about another
aspect of the case.
“If I were an individual and I
paid Sumner County property
@Hville_Standard
taxes, I would be furious,” he
said. “I would want to know who
made the decision at the Sumner
County Board of Education to
waste almost $100,000 defending
this…and if I was on the school
board, I would bring it before the
school board for the termination
of that employee because anybody that would spend $100,000
versus hitting a ‘send’ button on
a computer is not management
material in my opinion.”
Deborah Fisher, executive director of the Tennessee Coalition for
Open Government, said she had
mixed feelings about the ruling.
She said she was happy with
judge’s decision on the open
records portion of the ruling.
“Neither of (the records poli-
cies) were compliant with the
Open Records Act – both of them
basically put form over substance.
Local government shouldn’t be
able to come up with local rules
to get around their requirement
to comply with the (TPRA) and
that’s what the Sumner County
School Board did.”
However, Fisher said she
was concerned about Gay not
making the school board pay
for Jakes attorney’s fees, which
he has said ran over $10,000.
In Tennessee, a judge may
require the defendant to cover
attorney’s fees in public records cases if the government
is “willful” in violating the law.
Gay found the board’s record
custodian acted in “good faith,”
relying on the advice of the staff
attorney who consulted with
the Office of Open Records.
Fisher disagreed with the assessment.
“It didn’t seem like what
Sumner County did was not an
honest mistake – it seems like it
was very intentional about their
policies,” she said. “The fact
they took effort to really try to
prevent that person or make it
hard to get that record by going
through all these hoops – to me
it says they intentionally did not
want to give him the record.
“When it could have been so
easy and taken all of 10 seconds to
email a link – when it could have
been so easy that they actually decided not to do that to me seems
pretty willful,” she said. “I’m afraid
(the judge) put the bar too high.”
That could have implications
outside this case, Fisher said.
“The only way to force compliance is to file a lawsuit,” she said.
“It can be a very expensive pursuit.
It makes it really hard for people
to make their local governments
comply because the only way to do
it is to spend a lot of money.”
Board chairman Beth Cox
declined to comment on the
outcome or a possible appeal.
“As a matter of practice, the
board does not make individual
comment on pending litigation,”
she said. “This litigation will be
discussed by the full board in executive session at a future regularly scheduled meeting.”
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Winter weather outlook
Boyd said above-normal
sea surface temperatures
across the eastern Pacific
Ocean continue to signal
a strong El Nino for the
2015-16 winter months for
the Northern Hemisphere.
During strong events,
northern and western
parts of the United States
are favored for above
normal
temperatures,
while below normal temperatures generally occur along southern parts
of the U.S. from Texas to
Florida with Tennessee in
between, Boyd said.
“The signal here in Middle Tennessee is not nearly
as strong for temperature
as for other parts of country,” he said. “There have
been many mild winters
in which no El Nino was
in progress, so I would
look for the winter months
of December, January and
February to average out to
be slightly above normal
for the winter 2015-16.
“With the northern tier
of the country expected to
be warmer than normal, I
would not look for deep
arctic outbreaks into the
south. We will have some
cold weather as we always
do during the winter, but
maybe not the subzero
outbreaks with El Nino in
place.”
As for snowfall this
winter, Boyd said there
are equal chances of precipitation being above
normal, normal or below
normal.
“If we are expecting a
somewhat milder winter
in terms of temperature
this winter, I would trend
below our normal 8 inch
snowfall for the Nashville
airport for the winter of
2015-16,” he said.

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